The Handbook of the Birds of the World generously provides a
website with videos of a wide selection of birds. You might remember
Nicholas Talbot’s remarkable energy in submitting clips to this. My
own editing is way behind, but I have a modest selection of species on the site.
Downloading video can be a bit tedious and is not to everyone’s taste,
but if you want to try it you might recognise some old friends, eg our own Pied
Coot, Yarralumla bowerbirds, Dr P Owl, the Superb Parrots of the Belconnen police
precinct, Philip’s WF Honeyeater etc. The link is:
http://ibc.hbw.com/ibc/phtml/contributor.phtml?idContributor=80
Those who subscribe to the Handbook might be interested in
Josep del Hoyo’s autobiographical note which precedes his own huge
collection of clips.
