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Birds of North American Online - BNA Online

The print version of Birds of North America (available at the Dana Biomedical Library) was completed in 2002, a joint 10 year project of the American Ornithologists' Union, the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, and the Academy of Natural Sciences. Edited by Drs. Alan Poole and Frank Gill, this series provides detailed scientific information (18 volumes, 18,000 pages in total) for each of the 716 species of birds nesting in the USA and Canada.

BNA Online expands on the print documentation with image and video galleries showing behaviors, habitat, nests, eggs and nestlings, and more. And each online species account contains recordings of that bird's songs and calls, selected from the extensive collection in Cornell's Macaulay Library of Natural Sounds. Each BNA species account, written by one or more of 700 leading ornithologists, is fully searchable by topic and key word, and includes:

• conservation and management issues, including effects of human activity, status of essential habitats, prospects for survival, and more.
• a detailed, up-to-date, color-keyed map indicating the species' breeding and wintering ranges throughout the Americas.
• details of nature, timing, and routes of migration.
• a full description of breeding, migratory habitats.
• detailed accounts of feeding habits, songs and calls, and other behaviors.
• up-to-date treatment and description of subspecies, with a full discussion of systematics of the species.
• details of life at the nest: eggs, young, feeding, predation.
• a comprehensive bibliography for each species - a guide to published research.
• full data on breeding success, life span, mortality and disease, plus demographic and population information.
• gaps in knowledge are highlighted to guide future research.

Access restrictions: Licensed for use by Dartmouth College/ DMS/ DHMC Lebanon (IP address).

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