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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

Ornithology Library

Hours: Tuesdays 4-7 pm

and Fridays 4-7 pm

Non-circulating collection

ornithology.library@yale.edu

203 436 4892

Staff: Jorge de Leon

Location: 1st floor Class of 1954 Environmental Science Center

21 Sachem St.

New Haven, CT

Managing Your Literature Citations

Free accounts for EndNote Online and RefWorks can be created at the citation management LibGuide. It is at http://www.library.yale.edu/

citationmanagement. EndNote desktop can be downloaded for Yale affiliates

at http://www.yale.edu/software .

Purchase Request

To submit a collections purchase request to the library click here: Purchase Request. A library selector will be in touch with you.

Databases, Indexes, or Bibliographies

BIOSIS Previews
Ecology, botany, zoology, and other life science fields of research are indexed in this resource covering several thousand journals published around the world.
Birds of the World
This database is comprised of: Birds of North America, Handbook of The Birds of the World, Neotropical Birds, and Bird Families of the World. Authoritative accounts of > 10,700 species. From Cornell Lab of Ornithology.
Cornell Lab of Ornithology Maculay Library
More than 160,000 recordings of 67% of the world's birds. Also includes insects, fish, frogs, and mammals. Spectrograms for Windows 2000 computers and later.
ProQuest Natural Science Collection
This database combines the ProQuest Agricultural & Environmental Science Collection, the Meteorological and Geoastrophysical Abstracts, Biological Science Database, Water Resources Abstracts, EIS: Digest of Environmental Impact Statements, Environmental Engineering Abstracts, Pollution Abstracts, and Earth, Atmospheric & Aquatic Science Database into a single search platform, with coverage from 1946-present.
Zoological Record
Database of record for citations to the world's journal literature in zoology and natural history. Online coverage includes all volumes/sections. Topics covered include: animal behavior, biodiversity, conservation, ecology, genetics, habitats, morphology, nomenclature, parasitology, animal physiology, reproduction, taxonomy, zoogeography. 1864-.

Librarian for Life Sciences

Lori Bronars

Email Me

Contact:

219 Prospect St., PO Box 208111 New Haven, CT 06520-8111

Marx Science and Social Science Library | Yale University Library C38 Kline Tower
Yale University

lori.bronars@yale.edu

Office hours: Mondays 1:15-2:15 PM in BASS 205 (when classes are in session)

203 432 6213

Subjects: Biology, Neuroscience, Science, General

Local 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

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