birding africa: the sister company to Cape Town Pelagics arranges birding trips for world listers and more laid back birders, as well as mammal, botany and natural history trips. Birding Africa also customises trips for individuals or small groups. Based in Cape Town, they specialise in South Africa and southern Africa, including Namibia and Botswana, Uganda, Cameroon, Tanzania, Gabon, Ethiopia and Madagascar.

Percy FitzPatrick institute: Based at the University of Cape Town, the Fitz is Africa's foremost ornithological institute and a world-class producer of science and conservation knowledge and students or researchers. It offers an excellent masters programme in Conservation Biology and the Niven Library has one of the greatest collections of ornithological literature.

Animal demography unit: Formerly the Avian Demography Unit, this University of Cape Town research unit hosts an excellent research and conservation site with an impressive body of information on Cape and south Atlantic seabirds.

Africa birds & birding: South Africa's multi-award-winning birding magazine, with regular seabird feature articles and pelagics news. Book a tour with Cape Town Pelagics and ask us about the 1-year subscription to this stunning, glossy magazine for just R145 (50% off the cover price)!

Birding Africa: day trips around Cape Town and tours in Africa (Gabon, Madagascar, Cameroon, Namibia and others)
Seawatching.net: dedicated to seabirds and marine mammals.
Travelling Birder: birding trip reports from around the world, including South Africa.
Surfbirds: global birding portal with a pelagic emphasis.
the Fat birder: birding facts and global birding resources.
Worldtwitch: bird conservation, rediscoveries, general news a huge links page.
The subantarctic islands: a great deal of regional information.
plus40South: history and details of Marion, Prince Edward, Gough, Tristan da Cunha and Bouvet islands, blogs, wiki-style info and news.

USA
Angus Wilson's Ocean Wanderer site is a great northern hemisphere seabird resource.
Brian Patteson's site has East Coast pelagic trips and information.
Sea Life Paulagics runs East Coast trips from NJ and DE.
Greg Gillson of Bird Guide, Inc. offers pelagics out of Newport, OR.
Westport Seabirds have been running pelagics out of Westport, WA, since the 1960s.
In Montery Bay, CA, there are two outfits that offer pelagic trips, Monterey Bay Pelagics and
Shearwater Journeys, run by Debi Shearwater
The Los Angeles Audubon Society arranges pelagics mostly out of Santa Barbara.
So Cal are fanatics who run pelagics out of San Diego.

Australia
SOSSA international have a network of operators (see below) and also run pelagics out of Wollongon
Tony Paliser's site is a great resource for Australian pelagic trips and information.
Frank O'Connor offers lots of Western Australia (Perth) birding info and also arranges pelagics.

New Zealand
Ocean Wings in Kaikoura offer pelagic trips, photos, other tours and loads of information.
Pterodroma Pelagics offer day trips from Hauraki Gulf and arrange long-range trips.
Wrybill tours have a diversity of 1 day and multi-day departures from several New Zealand ports.

South America
Kolibri Expeditions arrange pelagic trips from Peru.
Fantastico Sur offer pelagics from several Chilean ports and to the Easter & Juan Fernandez islands.

Marine Ornithology: journal dedicated to seabird research.