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| Finding Information on Bird Sightings in our Area |
| With the widespread acceptance and use of the internet, most Rare Bird Alert telephone hotlines have gone by the wayside. Burroughs Audubon no longer maintains a telephone hotline; however, area birders can stay abreast of local, state and regional bird sightings through the convenience of email and the internet. Institutions of higher learning often maintain Listserv discussion groups on birds and birding as part of their mission to promote education and science, and they make these resources available to the public without charge. The following state discussion groups are sponsored by the ornithological organizations of their respective states and hosted in Kansas by Kansas State University and in Missouri by the University of Missouri – Columbia. The University of Arizona hosts several regional birding discussion groups. |
| Rather than receiving individual postings in your email inbox, and for those who don't wish to subscribe to a list, birders can browse through recent sightings at the archive websites of their lists of interest. |
| Archives of KSBIRD-L can be accessed without a password at: http://listserv.ksu.edu/archives/ksbird-l.html |
| Archives of MOBIRDS-L can be accessed, with password, at: https://po.missouri.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A0=MOBIRDS-L |
| Archives of BIRDCNTR-L, a Rare Bird Alert of the National Birding Hotline Cooperative (Central U.S. and Canada), can be accessed without a password at: http://listserv.arizona.edu/archives/birdcntr.html |
| Archives of BIRDCHAT-L, BirdChat provides a forum in which to share knowledge concerning wild birds. Lively discussions on topics related to wild birds, birding, and birders are invited and can be accessed without a password at: http://listserv.arizona.edu/archives/birdchat.html |
| Archives of BIRDWG01, National Birding Hotline Cooperative ID-Frontiers provides a discussion forum about highly difficult bird identification issues, mostly related to North America, and can be accessed without a password at: http://listserv.arizona.edu/archives/birdwg01.html |
| In order to post, or to reply to any postings, on ALL of the above Listserv discussion groups, you must first be a subscriber to these lists. Instructions for subscribing to a discussion group are usually included at the bottom of each posted message. |
| Jack Siler maintains an excellent website with links to regional and specialty mailing lists, online Rare Bird Alerts (RBA's) and links to the Listserv archives of various state ornithological organizations. |
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