The Capital Area email listserv is an email list that you subscribe to for the purpose of learning about and alerting others to interesting birds in the greater Lansing area. Follow these steps to join:
- Send an email to midmichiganbirders-subscribe@yahoogroups.com.
- You should shortly after receive an email asking you to confirm that you want to join. Follow instructions or just hit reply and send.
- You will receive an email approving your request.
- To post, send to midmichiganbirders@yahoogroups.com.
Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s website (allaboutbirds.org) is a free online resource about bird identification, sounds and songs, feeding, and much more.
A great resource for reporting, sharing, and finding bird sightings at home or around the world is ebird.org. There is also an ebird phone app available for both Android and IOS(Apple) phones. The ebird.org website is managed by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.
Another great birding resource is the Merlin Bird ID smartphone app, also from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Merlin is designed to be a birding coach for beginning and intermediate bird watchers. Merlin contains photos, text, and audios of your local birds or birds from around the world. For a detailed description of this app and instructions for using it go to merlin.allaboutbirds.org.