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Being such a multi-national group, we often need "translation" tools, such as this very useful link to a wind-speed calculator. It converts metres per second to mph - miles per hour. Many thanks to Kuremari.

Wind Speed Calculator. http://www.calculateme.com/Speed/Meters ... erHour.htm


What other tools would be helpful to us? Celsius to Farenheit, for instance.
If you find a helpful link, please post it here. Thanks.
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What a very good idea! :2thumbsup: I found quite a useful weather site:

http://pages.prodigy.net/robertmorgan/Calculator.html

And also, International Recipe Conversions (Kuremari & Jo had mentioned this need):

http://www.globalgourmet.com/food/resou ... z12Srmx7LP

http://www.wwrecipes.com/convert.htm
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Thank you, Kitty.

Now we can keep these things and not lose them again!
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For calculating and converting distance measurements

http://www.online-calculators.co.uk/con ... metres.php
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Tools which could help to identify eagle prey in the camera observed nest

FishBase
31800 Species, 281300 Common names, 49700 Pictures, 44500 References

Have a try: type in “carp” at “common name”. Click at “search”. FishBase will show a result list. Click at “Show pictures”.
http://www.fishbase.org/search.php?lang=English

Estonian Vertebrates
Overview: Estonian vertebrates by texts, pictures and sounds
http://bio.edu.ee/animals/

iSpot
iSpot is a website aimed at helping anyone identify anything in nature.
Upload your wildlife pictures and a community of experts and enthusiasts will identify them.
http://www.ispot.org.uk/
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Bird Anatomy

Eagle skeleton
http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g38/j ... eleton.jpg

Feathers and plumage
http://www.oiseaux-birds.com/article-de ... umage.html
Source: oiseaux-birds.com
Link submitted by Liis/Jo

Find more specific terms in the “Dictionary of birdwatching terminology”
(Includes the complete text of "The Birdwatcher's Dictionary" by Peter Weaver)
http://www.birdcare.com/bin/searchdict/
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Find at Bird On! a

- Bird Dictionary Topic
- Birdcare Encyclopaedia Topic
- Bird Book Sketch
- Bird Album Picture

http://www.birdcare.com/birdon/search.html
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Estonica – Encyclopedia about Estonia

Nature * History * Society * Culture * State * Economy * Education/Science

http://www.estonica.org/en/
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The Cook´s Thesaurus

“The Cook's Thesaurus is a cooking encyclopedia that covers thousands of ingredients and kitchen tools.
Entries include pictures, descriptions, synonyms, pronunciations, and suggested substitutions.”

http://www.foodsubs.com/
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Some language tools

YourDictionary
A collection of multilingual dictionaries, thesauri and other vocabulary aids

“Need something besides the definition of a word? A synonym or antonym? Or are you looking for an abbreviation of a phrase? Do you need your own lexical database? We have them all.” http://www.yourdictionary.com/diction1.html

Conjugation (English)
„Conjugation.com automatically conjugates over 15000 english verbs: regular & irregular verbs, all tenses, all forms, all voices.”
http://conjugation.com/search.php?verb=watch+
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Online unit converter

- Lenght and distance
- Mass and weight
- Temperature
- Velocity and speed
- Volume and capacity
- Other converters
http://converter.eu/

Currency converter

http://converter.eu/currency/
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Great info,thank you Maertha. :wave:
Carmel a member of SHOW .. I hope you love birds too. Its economical. It saves going to heaven.
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Estonia Weather Map;

http://www.emhi.ee/index.php?nlan=eng

The World Clock time converter

http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/

(this one you can use as you wish..fish around)
Carmel a member of SHOW .. I hope you love birds too. Its economical. It saves going to heaven.
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Post by Kitty KCMO »

A British site I came across with a good article on distinguishing willow tits from marsh tits.

http://www.worcesterbirding.co.uk/49.html
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Disabled Birding
http://www.fatbirder.com/links/signpost ... rding.html

Birding for all
"Birding For All is a relatively young organisation seeking to improve access for people with disabilities to reserves, facilities and services for birding. We have members across the world but the majority live in the UK. There is a separate chapter in the USA. When set up over a decade ago it was known as the disabled birders association but changed its name to Birding For All in 2010 in order to be more inclusive, after all there is no improvement to facilities, services or equipment designed to improve access for disabled people that makes them worse for anyone else, indeed, improvements for disabled people may well improve things for all sorts of people, young and old, of both genders and all abilities."
http://www.birdingforall.com/
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Fatbirder

"Fatbirder is the premier web resource about birds, birding & birdwatching for birders - hundreds of pages & tens of thousands of links about birding everywhere in the world; a page for every country & state; every bird family; books, guides, forums, reserves, accommodation, trip reports, bird clubs, ornithology, twitching, conservation, binoculars, birding tours. So if you want to go birding, or are a birdwatcher who wants to know about particular birds then Fatbirder is for you! Each page has sections on useful reading, guides, mailing lists, reserves, places to stay, trip reports, birding tour companies, bird clubs, etc. This website benefits hugely from the contributions of birders, photographers, ornithologists and birdwatchers from all over the world."

http://www.fatbirder.com/index.php
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Birds of the world

A website providing checklists of the birds of the world by country (scientific name/English name/name of the bird in the language of the country)

All countries: see top of the page

Birds of Estonia, the complete checklist
http://www.birdlist.org/estonia.htm
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Animal Congregations, or What Do You Call a Group of.....?

- Mammals
- Birds
- Reptiles and Amphibians
- Fish
- Invertebrates

Source: Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center
http://www.npwrc.usgs.gov/about/faqs/animals/names.htm
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Bird Group Names

“The Nutty Birdwatcher”/birdnature.com

http://www.birdnature.com/groupnames.html
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