The purpose of this page is to provide links to the technical materials most likely to be referenced by bird banders in the USA and Canada.  Please send suggestions for new or improved web pages to the BBL Web Master.  Also, watch our Bander Services pages below for new materials as they become available.  For other BBL staff contact information, click here.  

• North American Bird Banding Manual

• Bibliography

• Banding Equipment Suppliers

• BBL's Recapture Database

• Band Size Lookup

• Aging and Sexing Birds

• Re-engineering the Bird Banding Laboratory

• Memoranda to All Banders (MTAB's)

• Banding Associations

• Bander Services

• Band Manager

• How to Request Data from the BBL

• Canadian Atlas of Bird Banding

• More Resources