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Questions About Birds?

Check out our Frequently Asked Questions about birds and birding. Once there, you can also use the search box to find any topic. See Birds and Birding FAQs

If you have a bird question not addressed in our FAQ section, please use the cornellbirds@cornell.edu email. If you find an injured bird in the Ithaca, New York, area please contact Cornell’s Janet L. Swanson Wildlife Hospital at (607) 253-3060. For other locations, find a wildlife rehabilitator near you.

Membership Services

For questions about your membership or support of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, please visit our Membership Services webpage.

Media Inquiries

For news media requests, including interviews with experts, please contact Pat Leonard at (607) 254-2137 or pel27@cornell.edu. Visit our News Room.

Licensing Requests

To license multimedia including photos, sounds, or video, please visit the Macaulay Library and fill out the Media Request Form.

Participation in Lab Projects and Courses

For questions about logging in or participating in Lab projects and courses, please email the appropriate project team. See the list below or search our directory.

• Bird Academy: birdacademy@cornell.edu
• Bird Cams: birdcams@cornell.edu
• K-12 Education: k12lab@cornell.edu
• Celebrate Urban Birds: urbanbirds@cornell.edu
• eBird: support form
• Great Backyard Bird Count: gbbc@cornell.edu
• Macaulay Library: macaulaylibrary@cornell.edu
• Merlin: support form
• NestWatch: nestwatch@cornell.edu
• Project FeederWatch: Join or renew on our secure signup page. For other questions, email feederwatch@cornell.edu.

Other Questions

Can’t find what you’re looking for? Contact us using the form below. Because of the high volume of inquiries we receive (more than 80,000 each year), please understand if we are unable to reply to all messages. We will do our best to get back to you!