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Ornithology - Selected Library Resources: Home

This guide provides information on holdings in Yale collections online and in print alongside advice about how to use them efficiently and effectively for your research.

Welcome

Welcome to the Ornithology Subject Guide. In this guide, you'll find:

  • Links to major databases for identifying journal literature on birds
  • Links to selected Internet sites on birds
  • Links to key journals held in the Yale libraries or the Ornithology Library
  • Links to resources for finding bird species characteristics such as distribution maps or vocalizations

About Your Library

If you are working on or near Science Hill, Marx Library is your closest library, and it is the Science and Social Science service hub. If you are working closer to central campus, Sterling Memorial Library may be a closer pickup location.

Marx Library
marx.library.yale.edu

- 6 study rooms​
- 1 map room​
- 1 computer classroom​ (30 seats)
- 1 large meeting room​ (12 seats)
- Ample soft seating​
- Computers ​with scientific software
- BYOD hookup workstations​
- Book scanners
- 24/7 Young Family Study (entrance room)

Some collections, such as engineering and history of science, are held in Sterling Memorial Library or other locations. We also have many older and low-use items in our offsite storage facility, LSF. Our rapid delivery services can send materials to your closest library location. We also have services such as Borrow Direct (print materials) and Interlibrary Loan (digital or print), which leverage our large network of college and university partners. Don't see what you need? Send us a purchase request. 

Related Guides

Ornithology Guide Art

Bird ancient roman fresco Oplontis Italy

Databases, Indexes, or Bibliographies

Connect With Your STEM Librarians!

Need help? Contact us at marx.reference@yale.edu or make an appointment below. Virtual and in-person options are both available.

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Kayleigh A. Bohémier
Science and Engineering Librarian
(Other skills: LaTeX/Overleaf, Zotero, metrics)

Andy Shimp
Science and Engineering Librarian
(Other skills: EndNote, patent searching, metrics)

Yale and New Haven Resources for Ornithology

Kristof Zyskowski, Collections Manager, Vertebrate Zoology, Peabody Museum of Natural History

Professor Rick Prum, William Robertson Coe Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Curator, Vertebrate Zoology, Peabody Museum of Natural History, Professor, School of Forestry and Environmental Studies

New Haven Bird Club

Blog of bird sightings at Yale's West Campus

Ornithology Library

Yale's Ornithology Library is operationally separate from Yale University Library.

Staff: Jorge de Leon
ornithology.library@yale.edu
203-436-4892

Noncirculating collection
Hours: Tuesdays and Fridays from 4-7 PM
Location: 1st Floor Class of 1954 Environmental Science Center, 21 Sachem Street, New Haven, CT

Land Acknowledgment

"Yale University acknowledges that indigenous peoples and nations, including Mohegan, Mashantucket Pequot, Eastern Pequot, Schaghticoke, Golden Hill Paugussett, Niantic, and the Quinnipiac and other Algonquian speaking peoples, have stewarded through generations the lands and waterways of what is now the state of Connecticut. We honor and respect the enduring relationship that exists between these peoples and nations and this land."

For more information on the land acknowledgement, please look here.