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Links
 
Autoracing Indy 500:

http://www.indymotorspeedway.com/indy500.htm - awesome site on everything about Indy.  Good section on seat location
http://www.motorsport.com/stats/irl/index.asp - stats for every IRL race on pdf

Nest Box Resources

Sialis Bluebird Site - Alot of great info for Bluebird enthusiasts

Book Resources

National Audubon Society: Field Guide to North American Birds
A Guide To Raising Chickens by Gail Damerow
The Wood Duck & The Mandarin by Shurtleff and Savage
Poultry Keeping by Harry R. Lewis
The Call Duck Breed Book by Darrel Sheraw
Practical Photography by John Freeman

Forums

Backyardchickens - Poultry forum
Poultry Connection - Poultry forum
GBWF - Game birds, waterfowl forum
Classroom @ the coop - Poultry forum
dpreview - Digital camera review forums
nvudev.org - NVU developement forum
dslrforum - Photography forum

Greenhouse/Cold frames

http://www.conleys.com/commercial.htm - Cold frame manufacture out of CA
http://www.shelterlogic.com/ - Cold frame manufacture out of CT

Garden Ponds

http://www.pbase.com/pinback/pond&page=2 - How to build a pond
http://www.skippysstuff.com/liner.htm - Great site on building your own small backyard pond


News

http://www.buffalonews.com - Buffalo NY news paper
http://www.democratandchronicle.com/news/ - Rochester NY news paper
Niagara Falls Gazette - Niagara Falls area news
http://www.syracuse.com/ - Syracuse NY news paper
http://www.thetimesonline.com - Hammond IN Times
http://www.indystar.com - Indianapolis IN Star paper


Permits: (Wildlife-NYS & Federal)

http://www.tc.umn.edu/~devo0028/contact.htm - U.S. Wildlife Rehabilitator Contacts by State
http://www.fws.gov/permits/ - Main page for federal permits
http://www.fws.gov/migratorybirds/intrnltr/mbta/mbtandx.html - complete list of birds (permit)


Photography


I have owned both the Fuji S602Z and currently the Canon Digital Rebel.  Lenses, none better than the current L series that Canon puts out.  I enjoy everyday photography and both nature and astrophotography using a Meade ETX-90 scope.
http://Dpreview - great photography site and forums
http://Fredmiranda - great reviews and photography info
http://www.slr-lens.com - excellent review of both Canon & Sigma lenses
http://www.weasner.com/etx/ - awesome astro photography site
http://194.100.88.243/petteri/pont/Photography_lessons/a_about/_Teaching_composition.html - Teaching composition
http://www.photoworkshop.com/canon/index.html - Canon Digital Learning Center
http://www.marius.org/fom-serve/cache/68.html - Rebel Digital FAQ's

Poultry
Note: "Poultry" links include all winged species

http://www.feathersite.com/Poultry/BRKPoultryPage.html#Chickens - An on-line zoological garden of domestic poultry, including photos, video and information about various breeds of fowl, such as chickens, ducks, geese, guinea fowl, peafowl, pigeons, and turkeys
http://www.ithaca.edu/staff/jhenderson/chooks/chooks.html - complete list of breeds with detailed info.  Excellent site
http://msucares.com/poultry/index.html - Mississippi State University extension guide to poultry, lists alot of FAQ's.
Genetics pages - Waterfowl Genetics
Wing clipping poultry - Detailed illustrations on wing clipping
http://www.website-design.ca/chickens/water.html - design for keeping water from freezing and making your own feeder
http://www.extension.umn.edu/distribution/livestocksystems/DI0701.html - Home processing (butchering) of poultry

Poultry Candling

http://chickscope.beckman.uiuc.edu/explore/
http://www.homestead.com/shilala/candling.html

Poultry Housing

http://www.fisherswoodcraft.co.uk/ - great pictures, ideas on poultry housing.
http://www.guineafowl.com/fritsfarm/guineas/housing/ - coop plans from Frits Farm (scroll to bottom)
Raised nest box - Raised nest box plans and info for ducks
Raised nest box #2 - USGS plans and info on Wood duck boxes
Raised nest box #3 - Nebraska wildlife site with plans/info on wood duck nesting
Raised nest box #4 - Maurice Field's step by step

Poultry Identification

FWS banding info - FWS information.
ABC's of leg banding - basic info on banding
L & M Bird Leg Bands - catalog
National Band - Banding products for most everything
USGS Band sizing - band sizes for most species

Poultry Incubation

http://animalscience.ucdavis.edu/Avian/pfs33.htm - Problems and solutions
http://www.msstate.edu/dept/poultry/trouble.htm - Problems and solutions
http://www.feathersite.com/Poultry/BRKIncubation.html - how to build incubators, incubation info
GQF - GQF Manufacturing Incubators
Brower - Brower Incubators
Lyon - Home of the Marsh Turn-x
Dickey - Dickey Incubators
Brinsea - Brinsea incubators
http://www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/eggs/res20-incubator.html - building an incubator and incubation info

Poultry Shipping

Petports - non-bio poultry shipping containers
Birdshippers.org - organization formed to protect the right to ship live birds
Horizon Boxes - bio secure poultry shipping containers
Matthews - adult shipping containers(distributor)

Poultry Shows

Poultry Connection Event Calander - Upcoming shows/events
Brown Egg Show Calander - Upcoming shows/events
Poultry Press - Monthly poultry newspaper (subscription)

Poultry/Waterfowl Memberships

I belong to the following poultry/waterfowl clubs:
American Bantam Association
National Call Breeders of America
Western New York Pheasant & Waterfowl Association
Buffalo & Western NY Poultry Association


Web Design

www.pageresource.com/html/hclist.htm - Complete HTML tutorial list
NVU - A complete Web Authoring System, freeware
web hosting by TotalChoice Hosting - TotalChoice Hosting
HTML color chart - HTML color codes
Boutell.com - Fixed width and other FAQ's
DNS stuff - IP, domain and host lookup
FavIcon from Pics - Web tool to create your own favicon on the browser address bar

Firefox - Simply the best


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