17days since
Banquet

Websites You Gotta See!

 
Join us on Facebook!                                                                                

Visit our main page WGNSS For maps of birding locations, see Bird and Birding Information in and around St. Louis, MO, on our main page. Click here for precise coordinates to locations, as well as links to Google maps and topo maps. 

 Join WGNSS!

Favorite Nature Sites by your website editor, Anne McCormack, aka Nature Nut. Awesome stuff!

T. C. MacRae's blog, Beetles in the Bush.

Anne McCormack's blog about native plants, butterflies, birds and any nature topic Gardening with Binoculars.

Over a period of 20 springs, Randy Korotev collected data on the migration through Forest Park. See this interactive display, or view the original by clicking on Bird and Birding Information > Timetable of Spring Migration.

  • If you have a blog or site you'd like to get listed here, contact annemccormackATsbcglobal.net

How are birds doing in the face of habitat loss, etc? Here's the complete 2009 State of the Birds report. Watch the video and download the report. Sponsored by American Bird Conservancy, National Audubon, US Fish and Wildlife, and many more.

Swarovski Optik has an annual award:  Digiscoper of the Year 2010. You can see the entries for this year so far, as well as the winners of 2009.

Summary of posts about birds in Missouri at Birding on the Net

The webcam for  Old Faithful in Yellowstone National Park has been updated. Use this link to choose which webcam you'd like to see. When you see a crowd gathering, you know a predicted eruption is near.

You'll flip when you see this! Flashy intro to Olivia Gentile's new book about birding champ and WGNSS member, Phoebe Snetsinger.

Here's the Wikipedia article about Phoebe Snetsinger. Jim Jackson wrote a great article about WGNSS in the Missouri Conservationist in 1995.

John Trapp writes in his blog, Birds Etcetera, about the Secretary of Defense birding with WGNSS birder Dick Anderson.

Surfing the net is all very well, but why not go on a bird walk with us? Botany walks or Entomology meetings are great too! All our events are free unless noted.

This site, listed first by Google in the search "lunar meteorite" is written by one of our members. From the Dept. of Earth & Planetary Sciences, Washington University, Saint Louis, Missouri.

Great photos from one of our members