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March 2021

Cornell Lab of Ornithology's Birds of the World is Atkins Library's e-resource of the month for April. 

Birds of the World is a powerful research database that brings together deep, scholarly content from four celebrated works of ornithology with millions of bird observations from eBird and multimedia from the Macaulay Library into a single platform where biologists and birders can explore comprehensive life history information on birds.

The database contains:

  • 10,721 species accounts

  • 9 free accounts every month

  • 249 bird family accounts

  • 500 million+ eBird observations

  • 100,000+ research citations

  • 21,000 color illustrations of every species, and many subspecies

  • Tens of thousands of media assets (photos, videos, and sound recordings) from the Macaulay Library

  • Range maps, eBird abundance maps, and animated migration maps

  • Avian taxonomy explorer

  • Ongoing updates