Useful Links for Students

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Ornithology Resources

• BIRDNET
• Guidelines to the Use of Wild Birds in Research
• Ornithological links for students
• Searchable Ornithological Research Archive (SORA)
• North American Bird Banding Manual
• Breeding Bird Survey Results
• ORNithological Information System (ORNIS)
• Journal Abbreviations
• Research Topic Ideas From Partners In Flight Research Needs

Poster and Presentation Tips

• Advice on Designing Scientific Posters
• Effective Presentations (Oral and Poster)
• Powerpoint Tutorials
• Powerpoint Tips

Awards, Grants, Fellowships, Scholarships

• BIRDNET Grants, Awards, and Prizes in Ornithology
• Canon National Parks Science Scholars Program
• Ecological Society of America
  • Desert Ecology-Forrest Shreve Award
  • Robert Whittaker Travel Fellowship
• Fulbright Fellowships for International Research
• International Foundation for Science Research Grants
• Miller Fellowships
• National Fish & Wildlife Foundation Budweiser Conservation Scholarship Program
• NSF Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grants
• NSF Graduate Fellowships
• NSF International Research Fellowship
• Sigma Xi Grants-in-Aid of Research
• Smithsonian Fellowships in Ornithology

Education

• Homestudy Ornithology Course from the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology

Free Statistics Programs

• Distance - community estimates of census data
• Mark - analyzing mark-recapture/resight data
• Phylip - produces phylogenies
• Phylogeny Programs - Gives info about every imaginable phylogeny program ever created
• R - free software environment for statistical computing and graphics