Table 1. Categories of birding software with examples and/or descriptions and/or Internet addresses.

Software category     Example           Description/Internet address
Interactive field guides Natureware   CD-ROM with more than 2400 illustrations of almost 700 birds in Eastern USA
  Birds of Europe   CD-ROM from Springer-Verlag
  Birder's Mate   Field guide for notebooks and PCs, South Africa
  Birds of the World   CD-ROM encyclopedia covering 768 birds in 80 species
  North American Bird Reference Book   Instructional multimedia CD-ROM, with songs, photos, quizzes, maps, and more. For PCs.
  Birds of North America CD-ROM 2.5   From Thayer's: songs, photos, videos, quizzes, field guide, and more. For PC's.
  Birds of the World   Covers 9946 birds of the world. For PCs.
  Multimedia Birds of Southern Africa   Illustrations, text, distribution maps, photos, videos, and sounds as well as a search capability.
  North America Birds   Peterson Multimedia Guide of almost 1000 birds with photographs, videos, bird songs, range maps, and more. For PC's.
  North American Birds
by Sight and Sound
  Games and an online manual to help the user learn about approximately 700 species of North America birds. For both PCs and Macs.
  National Audubon Society Interactive CD-Rom Guide to North American Birds   CD-ROM for PCs or Mac covers more than 700 birds with 2100 photographs, 700 range maps, bird calls, essays, and more.
Listing software North American Bird Reference Book with Excalibur 2000   onmymountain.com
  BirdBase and BirdArea   birforwin.html
  AviSys   Avisys.html
  Birder's Diary   diary
  Flying Emu software   Breeding Bird Atlas List
  Merlin Species Watcher   Species Watcher Database
  MacPeregrine 3.0   Life lists, custom lists, reports, species accounts. For Macs.
Internet sites with field guide information   Northern Michigan Birding
      North American Rare Bird Alert
      Rare Birds
      Bird Identification Training Center
      Patuxent Bird Population Studies
      Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology
      American Birding Association
      Online Tips for Birds
      Identification of Eastern US Songbirds by Color
      The Great Backyard Bird Count Bird Identification Guide
Identification by behavior and location   Nutty Birdwatcher
      Ducks at a Distance
      Peterson On Line
      Surf Birds Advanced Birding Issues
      Birding Magazine and Kenn Kaufman
      Partners in Flight Species Accounts -Table