Birding in Tennessee

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Note: I have received several e-mails from webmanagers, asking to list their links on this page. I believe that there are many pages out there which already list many of the best birding links. Rather than duplicate this information, the TOS page highlights birding links that focus on Tennessee's avifauna. So, for more information on birding in general, try out pages like Jack Siler's excellent site Birding on the Web. And for information on birding in Tennessee, please look through the links below.

Places to Bird

See the Literature on Tennessee's Birdlife page for publications on birding Tennessee

Some Birding Sites in East Tennessee
Areas mostly north and east of Knoxville

Some Birding Sites in the Chattanooga Area

Tennessee's National Wildlife Refuges
Seven refuges in the western half of the state, all offering good to excellent birding.

Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Click here for a checklist of the Park's birds.

Cherokee National Forest
Information about Tennessee's only National Forest.
 

Recent Sightings

BirdLine - Current transcript of the Tennessee Statewide Telephone Hotline, maintained by the Wood Thrush Shop in Nashville, TN., in cooperation with the Nashville Chapter, TOS - call (615) 356-7636.  Click here to see the previous transcript.
 

Tennessee Weather

State-wide and regional current conditions, forecasts, and satellite and radar imagery
 

Birding in Adjacent States

Alabama Ornithological Society

South Alabama Birding Association

Carolina Bird Club

Georgia Ornithological Society

Kentucky Ornithological Society

The Audubon Society of Missouri

Virginia Society of Ornithology
 

Other Resources

Feathered Friends
TOS member Bryan Stevens writes this weekly column for the Elizabethon Weekly Star newspaper, relating various bird-related stories.

Hummer/Bird Study Group
This is the site for Bob and Martha Sargent's non-profit organization which studies hummingbirds throughout the New World. Their research on wintering hummingbirds in the southeast has included banding several species in Tennessee which were new to the state list. If you love hummingbirds, you'll love this site!
 

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