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Books and guides

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Birding - Venezuela

General

OVUM - Venezuelan discussion bird group (en español). To join, email Sandra Giner: sginer@strix.ciens.ucv.ve
Fat Birder
http://www.fatbirder.com/links_geo/america_south/venezuela.html
Birding Pal
http://www.birdingpal.org/venezuela.htm
Birding Hotspots Around the World
http://www.camacdonald.com/birding/savenezuela.htm
WorldTwitch
http://worldtwitch.com/new_world.htm

Birding trip reports - Venezuela and Neotropics

BIRDTRIP@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU Birding Trip Reports
http://listserv.arizona.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A0=birdtrip&T=0
Birding the Americas
http://maybank.tripod.com/SouthAmerica/SouthAmerica-Index.htm
Birdwatching Trip Reports from BirdTours http://www.birdtours.co.uk/tripreports/venezuela/index.htm
Bird Chat
http://listserv.arizona.edu/archives/birdchat.html or http://birdingonthe.net/chat.html
Surfbirds - South America trip reports http://www.surfbirds.com/Trip%20Reports/trindexsamerica.html#Anchor-GLOBAL-50925
WorldTwitch
http://worldtwitch.com/links.htm#neotropical
John van der Woude's trip reports
http://johnbirding.wolweb.nl/

Bird lists - Venezuela

Avibase - Venezuela checklist (follows Clements 5th edition, updated 2003)
http://www.bsc-eoc.org/avibase/avibase.jsp?region=ve&pg=checklist&list=clements
Also available as Sibley & Monroe 1996, Howard & Moore 3rd edition, Commission internationale pour les noms français d'oiseaux, 1993, American Ornithologist Union 7th edition (44th suppl.)
http://www.bsc-eoc.org/avibase/avibase.jsp?pg=checklist&region=ve&list=cinfo&lang=EN

Other birding sites

Bird Links to the World (excellent links page)
http://www.bsc-eoc.org/links/links.jsp?page=l_sam_ve
WorldTwitch (again, lots of helpful links)
http://worldtwitch.com/links.htm#neotropical
Birdingonthe.Net
http://birdingonthe.net/mid_sa.html
Electronic Resources on Ornithology
http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/Environment/NHR/bird.html
Planeta
http://www.planeta.com/ecotravel/resources/birds.html
Venezuela Eco Portal
http://ecoportal8.tripod.com/birdwatch.htm
Wild Macaws - Venezuela
http://freespace.virgin.net/susan.armitage/VENPAR1.HTM
Pioneers of Venezuelan Ornithology
William H. Phelps and William H. Phelps Jr.,

Birding Tours

For custom and group bird tours of Venezuela, please contact Chris Sharpe

Birding optics

Better View Desired
http://betterviewdesired.com/

Macaulay Library of Natural Sounds, Cornell University (largest archive of Neotropical bird vocalisations, including the extremely important collection of Paul Schwartz, made in Venezuela )
http://birds.cornell.edu/lns/
The British Library Sound Archive (includes Neotropical bird vocalisations)
http://www.bl.uk/collections/sound-archive/wild.html
The Borror Laboratory of Bioacoustics
http://blb.biosci.ohio-state.edu/
Florida Museum of Natural History Bioacoustic Archives
http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/natsci/ornithology/ornithology.htm#Top
Biblioteca de sonidos de aves mexicanas
http://www.ecologia.edu.mx/sonidos/
The Wildlife Sound Recording Society ( UK )
http://www.5cbm.fsnet.co.uk/wsrs_intro.htm
Nature Recordists Discussion Group
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/naturerecordists/
The MiniDisc Community Portal
http://www.minidisc.org/

Ornithology - Neotropics

A classification of the bird species of South America (South American Checklist Committee, American Ornithologists' Union) http://www.museum.lsu.edu/~Remsen/SACCBaseline.html
An extensive bibliography is provided at http://www.museum.lsu.edu/~Remsen/SACCBiblio.html
Ornithological Worldwide Literature (OWL)
http://egizoosrv.zoo.ox.ac.uk/owl/
Recent Ornithological Literature Online (ROLO)
http://www.nmnh.si.edu/BIRDNET/ROL/ROLissues.html
Recent Postings from the Neotropical Ornithology Birding List (NEOORN-L)
http://server1.birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NEOO.html
InfoNatura (interesting but lots of errors)
http://www.natureserve.org/infonatura/

Conservation - Venezuela

Venezuelan Audubon Society - SCAV (Venezuelan NGO specifically devoted to bird conservation)
http://www.audubonvenezuela.org/
Provita (Venezuelan NGO working on biodiversity conservation with emphasis on threatened species; produces the Venezuelan Red Data Book)
http://www.provitaonline.org/
BioParques (Venezuelan NGO working on conservation of national parks)
http://www.bioparques.org/?
Fundación Tierra Viva (NGO working on environmental education)
http://www.tierraviva.org
Fudena (Venezuela's WWF affiliate)
http://www.fudena.org.ve/
Fundación Polar (formed by Venezuela's most popular beer producer, the foundation directs significant funding to conservation)
http://www.fpolar.org.ve/index.html
American Bird Conservancy - Venezuela page
http://www.abcbirds.org/counterparts/venezuela_profile.htm
ABC's AlianzaAves - Venezuela page (en español)
http://www.alianzaves.net/venezuela_spprofile.htm
MARN (Venezuelan Ministry for the Environment)
http://www.marnr.gov.ve/
INPARQUES (Venezuelan National Parks Institute)
http://www.inparques.gob.ve/view/index.php
Sistema de Información sobre Biodiversidad en Venezuela (GoV biodiversity web site)
http://www.sibv.org.ve/
Defensoría Ambiental (to report breaches of environmental law)
http://www.defensoria.gov.ve email: denuncias@defensoria.gov.ve
Red de medio ambiente de Cantv.net
http://www.cantv.net/medioambiente

Canaima National Park and World Heritage Site

The Lost World (the most complete internet site on the tepuis)
http://www.thelostworld.org/
UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre Protected Areas Database
http://www.wcmc.org.uk/protected_areas/data/wh/canaima.html
UNESCO - World Heritage Sites
http://whc.unesco.org/sites/701.htm
Planeta - Venezuela 's Canaima National Park and World Heritage Site
(from Sharpe, C.J. and I. Rodríguez. 1997. Discovering the Lost World: Canaima National Park and World Heritage Site , Venezuela . The George Wright Forum 14 (3): 15-23) http://www.planeta.com/planeta/97/0897canaima.html
Up-date:- http://www.planeta.com/planeta/98/0898canaima.html
World Resources Institute
http://www.wri.org/wri/ffi/atg-eng/guayana.htm
The Nature Conservancy
http://nature.org/wherewework/fieldguide/projectprofiles/cnp.html
Guiana Shield Media Project
http://www.gsmp.org/ENGLISH/INDEX-UK.HTM
The Last Refuge - film-making in the tepuis
http://www.lastrefuge.co.uk/data/articles/tepuis/tepuis_Main.html

Research - Venezuela

Estación Ornitológica La Mucuy
http://www.geocities.com/lamucuy2000/espanol.html
NEOMAPS - Neotropical Biodiversity Mapping Project
(commencing with Venezuelan birds)

I can find no other sites dedicated to research on Venezuelan birds - please contact me if you would like your ornithological or conservation research listed here.

Responsible tourism

Planeta.com
http://www.planeta.com
Venezuela at
http://www.planeta.com/ecotravel/south/venezuela/venezuela1.html and  http://www.planeta.com/ecotravel/south/venezuela/venoutdoors.html
The International Ecotourism Society
http://www.ecotourism.org/
Tourism Concern
http://www.tourismconcern.org
INATUR ( Venezuela 's Tourism Institute)
http://www.inatur.gov.ve/
Email: inatur@cantv.net or inatur@inatur.gov.ve

International conservation

BirdLife International
http://www.birdlife.net/
Threatened Birds of the World at http://www.birdlife.net/datazone/search/species_search.html
Neotropical Bird Club
http://www.neotropicalbirdclub.org/
American Bird Conservancy
http://www.abcbirds.org/
National Audubon Society
http://www.audubon.org/
NAS Latin America and Caribbean Program
http://www.audubon.org/local/latin/
NAS - Latin America Bulletin (sadly 1998-2000 only)
http://www.audubon.org/local/latin/bulletin.html
Partners in Flight (migratory birds)
http://www.partnersinflight.org/
Cracid Specialist Group
http://www.angelfire.com/ca6/cracid/
Idea Wild (one of the best small-scale conservation funders with a good track record of support for over 30 Venezuelan projects)
http://www.ideawild.org/
World Resources Institute
http://www.wri.org/
Wildlife Trust
http://www.wpti.org/
Wildlife Conservation Society
http://wcs.org/
Conservation International
http://www.conservation.org/
The Nature Conservancy
http://www.nature.org/
IUCN Red List (information on globally threatened species)
http://www.redlist.org/
EcoPortal - El Directorio Ecológico y Natural
http://www.ecoportal.net/