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- Aberdeen Bestiary Project - On-line database of text, digitized images, commentary and translation from the Aberdeen Bestiary, a medieval manuscript containing descriptions of real and mythical animals, accompanied by moralizing explanations. Provides an index. The project is a collaborative effort between Aberdeen University Library, the Department of History of Art and the Centre for Computer Based Learning in Land Use and Environmental Sciences.
- African Wildlife Foundation - In the Wild Lives Guidebook you'll find information on over 45 African animals including the ratel, the serval, the gerenuk, the bongo and the pangolin.
- AmphiaWeb - Taxonomic information for every recognized species of amphibian in the world. (Universtiy of California, Berkley, Digital Library Project.)
- Animal Behavior Society
- Animal Diversity Web - Searchable collection of pictures and information about animals provided by the University of Michigan Museum of Zoology.
- Animal health, well-being, and rights - Part of the Virtual Library for Biosciences.
- Animal Info - "Information on rare, threatened and endangered mammals" by Paul Massicot. There's an Individual Species Index
- Animal Information Database - Animal information database from Sea World/Busch Gardens provides facts on many animals including manatees, polar bears, sea turtles, whales, sharks and dolphins.
- Animalai: India's Elephant Mountain - Part of the Living Edens series, Animalai is a sanctuary in Southern India for elephants, gaurs, panther, sloth-bears, flying squirrels, jackals, pangolins and civet cats.
- Association for the Study of Animal Behavior
- Bat Conservation International - Provides a searchable database of over 6,000 bibliographic references to bats in scientific journals, abstracts, and books and a searchable BATS Magazine archive
- Beautiful Birds: Masterpieces from the Hill Ornithology Collection - Cornell University Library Division of Rare & Manuscript Collections
- Berkshire Bird Paradise - Peter J. Dubacher's bird sanctuary for disabled and unwanted birds in Petersburgh, New York.
- Biodiversity Programs - Smithsonian Institution
- BioImages: Virtual Field-Guide - Offers over 17,000 images of Natural History objects, mostly British in origin. Multiple views are often available.
- American Bird Conservancy
- American Birding Association - Has a Birding and Nature Festivals Directory
- American Ornithologists' Union - " Founded in 1883, the American Ornithologists' Union is the oldest and largest organization in the New World devoted to the scientific study of birds. Although the AOU primarily is a professional organization, its membership of about 4,000 includes many amateurs dedicated to the advancement of ornithological science." Online Publications include
- Check-list of North American Birds (1998)
- Ornithological Newsletter
- Avibase - "Extensive database information system about all birds of the world, containing over 3.5 million records about 10,000 species and 22,000 subspecies of birds, including distribution information, taxonomy, synonyms in several languages."
- Beautiful Birds: Masterpieces from the Hill Ornithology Collection - Cornell University Library Division of Rare & Manuscript Collections.
- Bird Artists
- Birds In Art Catalogues - Woodson Art Museum, Wasau, Wisconsin. See Birds in Art: The Masters By Inga Brynildson and Woody Hagge, Woodson Museum, 1990.
- John James Audubon (1785-1851) - Jean Jacques Fougere Audubon, was born in Les Cayes on the island of Santa Domingo (Haiti). At eighteen he settled in Mill Grove, Pennsylvania, now the John James Audubon Center
- Allan Brooks (1869-1946) - See Allan Brooks - A Biography by Marjorie Brooks, The Condor, volume 40, number 1, January-February, 1938, pp. 12-17 (Written by Marjorie Brooks at Okanagan Landing, British Columbia, April 14, 1937) and
Allan Brooks, 1869-1946 by Hamilton M. Laing, The Auk, volume 64, number 3, July 1947, pp. 430-444.
- Louis Agassiz Fuertes (1874-1927) - See Louis Agassiz Fuertes, a searchable database of over 2500 bird illustrations (Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library).
- Francis Lee Jaques (1888-1969)
- Lars Jonsson (1952- ) - Gotland, Sweden. See his Utsikt Pilgrimsfalk
- John Gerrard Keulemans (1842-1912) - See Biologia Centrali-Americana; or, Contributions to the Knowledge of the Fauna and Flora of Mexico and Central America which has handcolored bird lithographs by J. G. Keulemans, accessible as thumbnails or in sequentially in list format.
- Bruno Liljefors (1860-1939) - Bruno Liljefors: the Peerless Eye (1989) by Martha Hill
- Sir Peter Scott
- John Seerey-Lester
- Roger Tory Peterson (1908-1996) - See Roger Tory Peterson: A Biography by Douglas Carlson, University of Texas Press, 2007.
- Prideaux John Selby
- George Miksch Sutton (1898-1982) - See To A Young Bird Artist, letters of Louis Agassiz Fuertes to George Sutton. You can search inside this book at Amazon.com.
- Archibald Thornburn (1860-1935)
- Biologia Centrali-Americana; or, Contributions to the Knowledge of the Fauna and Flora of Mexico and Central America - Edited by F [Frederick] Ducane Godman and Osbert Salvin. "Important and out-of-print", this Smithsonian digitization project consists of 58 volumes and over 18,000 images. Four volumes are devoted to "description of 1413 species of Aves belonging to the Central American fauna." The handcolored lithographed plates by J. G. Keulemans are accessible as thumbnails or in sequentially in list format. "Salvin's long continued ill health, and sudden death in 1898, retarded the conclusion of the Third Volume, and this was subsequently finished with the assistance of Dr. [R. Bowdler] Sharpe and Mr. Ogilvie-Grant." [p. 57, Introductory Volume.] "The material for this work was mainly obtained by Salvin and myself during our several visits to Central America. Salvin visited Guatemala three times....." [p. viii, Introduction to Volume 1]. See also Review by Robert Ridgwa in Auk, Vol. 7, Number 2, April/June, 1890, pp. 189-195.
- Volume 1 - "Vol. I., published in 1879-1887, gives an account of a portion of the Passeres, the families Turdidae to Alaudidae; and, on the conclusion of hte work, in 1904, an Introduction to the whole subject was issued with Tables (pp. xi-xxxviii) showing the geographical distribution of the families and species represented in Mexico and Central America."
- Volume 2 -"Vol. II., published in 1888-1897, includes the continuation of the Passeres and the whole of the Macrochires, Pici, Coccyges, and Psittaci."
- Volume 3 - "Vol. III., published in 1897-1904, includes the Striges, Accipitres, Steganopodes, Herodiones, Phoenicopteri, Anseres, Columbae, Gallinae, Geranomorphae, Limicolae, Gaviae, Tubinares, Pygopodes, Alcae, and Crypturi."
- Volume 4 - "Vol. IV. contains the whole of the Plates and a complete list of the 149 species figured." (See, for example, Icterus Sclateri, Falco Diroleucus and
- Bird Names Translation Index - "Bird names for the translation in nine languages: Latin (the scientific name of the species), Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Swedish and Russian."
- Bird Studies Canada
- Bird Watcher's Digest Magazine
- Birding on the Net - Jack Siler. With Rare Bird Alerts and Index to the Archives of Birding Email Lists
- Birds of Nova Scotia - Over 400 bird pages from Robie Tufts book. (Nova Scotia Museum.)
- BirdNet - The Ornithological Council's site is a rich resource for birders. Resources include:
- Index Page
- Avian orders & species lists
- State & Provincial Ornithological Societies
- Bird Observatories in the USA and Canada
- Online Literature for Ornithologists
- BirdSource: Birding with a Purpose - Joint project of the National Audubon Society and the Cornell Lab of Ornithology offers the opportunity to "track birds and contribute our findings online to define bird ranges, populations, migration pathways, and habitat needs." The site provides information on the Golden-winged Warbler Atlas Project.
- Boreal Songbird Initiative - See Jeff Wells' Boreal Bird Blog
- Castle Collection of Natural History Illustrations
- Bryn Mawr College
- Cornell Lab of Ornithology
- Adelson Library - Provides access to online catalog.
- Macaulay Library - Sound & Video Catalog - Offers over 80,000 sound and video recordings of animals (65,000 sound clips and some 18,000 video clips). See Calls of the wild: More than 80,000 sound and video recordings of animals now available to public online, By Miyoko Chu, Cornell Chronicle, December 14, 2006.
- Monday Night Seminar Series
- eBird
- EuroBirding - You can search a database of 7,000 articles in 12 European birding magazines.
- For the Birds: A look at birds, habitat conservation and environmental economics - Jeffrey Wells, March 19, 2008 [audio file].
- Gallica: Images et Texts du XIX Siècle Francophone - Text and image resource from the Bibliothèque Nationale de France. There are 448 finely detailed images from John Gould's Birds of Europe (1837). To locate them, search (recherche) the index for cote 02300001, 02300002, 02300003, 02300004 and 02300005. Examples:
- Peregrine Falcon
- Black and White Kingfisher
- Mountain or Bramble Finch
- Hazel Grous or Gelinotte
- Gad wall
- George M. Sutton Avian Research Center - Bartlesville, Oklahoma (918-336-7778)
- Hawk Mountain Sanctuary - Kempton, Pennsylvania. "Located along the Appalachian Flyway in east-central Pennsylvania, scenic Hawk Mountain Sanctuary offers visitors an outstanding, year-round nature experience with its mountaintop vistas, 8 miles of hiking trails, and thrilling autumnal raptor migration. In 2006, Hawk Mountain counters recorded an astonishing 25,156 hawks, eagles and falcons--the largest number of migrants in two decades. "
- John Gould's ornithological works - Oxford Digital Library.
- Louis Agassiz Fuertes - Searchable database of 2500 of bird illustrations as well as online exhibition of the 1899 Harriman Alaska expedition based on his journal. (Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library)
- National Audubon Society - Has
- Species Profiles
- Bird Conservation Initiatives
- Watchlist of species faced with population decline, limited geographic range, and/or threats such as habitat loss on their breeding and wintering grounds.
- Niels Kjærbølling: Icones ornithologiae scandinavicae (1851-56) - Danish Royal Library.
- Rød Glente (Falco Milvus) - Planche 4, figur 3
- Sneugle (Nyctea scandiaca) - Planche 6, figur 1
- Urfugl (Tetrao tetrix) - Black Grouse. Planche 28c, figur 6
- OiseauxNet - Thousands of photographs of birds.
- Ornithological Societies of North America (OSNA) - Has an Ornithological Newsletter.
- Patuxent Wildlife Research Center - U.S. Geological Survey research center located in Laurel, Maryland, has a number of useful resources for bird watchers including:
- Bird Identification Infocenter, with photographs, songs, identification tips, maps, and life history information for North American birds. There is also information on the:
- Breeding Bird Survey Summary and Analysis, version 2006.0
- Bird Population Studies
- North American Bird Banding Manual
- Christmas Bird Count
- Seasonal Bird Checklists
- Peregrine Fund
- Peterson Field Guides - Houghton Mifflin site devoted to Roger Tory Peterson (1908-1996), artist, naturalist and author of A Field Guide to Birds
- Raptor Center - University of Minnesota College of Veterinary Medicine.
- Searchable Ornithological Research Archive (SORA) - University of New Mexico, Albuquerque. Full-text articles from the following journals:
- The Auk (1884-1999) - Journal of the American Ornithologists' Union
- The Condor (1899-2000)
- Journal of Field Ornithology (1930-1999)
- North American Bird Bander (1976-2000)
- Ornithological Monographs (1964-2005)
- Pacific Coast Avifauna (1900-1974)
- Studies in Avian Biology (1978-1999)
- Western Birds (1970-2004)
- Wilson Bulletin (1889-1999)
- Roger Tory Peterson Institute of Natural History - Jamestown, New York
- Breeds of Livestock - Department of Animal Science, Oklahoma State University. This is a comprehensive searchable database, with images, of livestock breeds throughout the world. Includes:
- Cattle
- Goats
- Horses
- Sheep
- Swine
- Poultry
- Breeds of Livestock by Region
- BUBL LINK Catalogue: Selected Internet resources covering all academic subject areas - See Animals.
- Center for North American Herpetology (CNAH) - "Academic portal to North American herpetology."
- CITES (Convention on Internationial Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora) - With CITES-listed Species Database for flora and fauna which provide information on the full appendix history of the taxa selected including Appendix, country, date listed and notes. The Species Survival Network (SSN) "founded in 1992, is an international coalition of over eighty non-governmental organizations (NGOs) committed to the promotion, enhancement, and strict enforcement of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES)."
- Conservation Breeding Specialist Group (CBSG) - "Global network of conservation professionals dedicated to saving threatened species by increasing the effectiveness of conservation efforts worldwide. CBSG is recognized and respected for its use of innovative, scientifically sound, collaborative processes that bring together people with diverse perspectives and knowledge to catalyze positive conservation change."
- Defenders of Wildlife
- Directory of Open Access Journals - "This service covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals. We aim to cover all subjects and languages. There are now 2859 journals in the directory. Currently 900 journals are searchable at article level. As of today 149526 articles are included in the DOAJ service." (2 October 2007)
- Discovery Channel - You can watch complete shows from Discovery Channel, TLC and Animal Planet, but you need to download the Moveplayer. Has extensive animal resources including:
- Animal Planet
- Shark Week - With Podcasts.
- Electronic Biologia Centrali-Americana - 58 digitized volumes
- Encyclopedia of Life Project - "Unprecedented global effort to document all 1.8 million named species of animals, plants, and other forms of life on Earth." See Press Release, May 9, 2007. Partners include the Field Museum of Natural History, Harvard University, Marine Biological Laboratory, Smithsonian Institution, and Biodiversity Heritage Library, and the Missouri Botanical Garden. The project is funded by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. You can hear E.O. Wilson talk about the Encyclopedia of Life project at the March 2007 TED Conference (22:35 minutes).
- FindArticles.com - Free online article-search service allows you to search for (and read) articles published over the last 1 to 2 years in more than 300 reputable magazines and journals. You can view publications by subject or by name.
- Gorilla Foundation - "Established in 1976, to promote the protection, preservation and propagation of gorillas. Project Koko, a primary focus of the Gorilla Foundation, involves teaching a modified form of American Sign Language to two lowland gorillas, Koko and Michael."
- Hinterland Who's Who - This Canadian Wildlife Service site provides vignettes of birds and mammals (text, photographs and videos).
- International Snow Leopard Trust
- International Wolf Center - Ely, Minnesota
- Journey North: a global study of wildlife migration - Learner Online, Annenberg/CPB Math and Science Project.
- Living Edens - PBS natural history series (with archive of previous shows),
- Mammal Society - London
- Mammal Species of the World - Database provided by the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History is based on the information in the 1993 book edited by D.E. Wilson and D.M. Reeder. It contains the names of the 4,629 currently recognized species of mammals in a taxonomic hierarchy that includes Order, Family, Subfamily, and Genus, and is searchable by scientific name or common name.
- Man and the Biosphere Species Database - "Worldwide databases of vascular plant (MABFlora) and vertebrate animal (MABFauna) occurrences within MAB Biosphere Reserves. Currently, the MABFlora and MABFauna databases contain data from 273 Biosphere Reserves in 76 countries." A project of the Information Center for the Environment (ICE) at the University of California, Davis.
- Museums
- American Museum of Natural History - New York. The Department of Mammalogy has a Bibliography of General Works in Mammalogy by John Wahlert and the Department of Herpetology has information on Amphibian Species of the World.
- Canadian Museum of Nature - Ottawa. The Library provides access to the online catalogue.
- Cleveland Museum of Natural History
- Florida Museum of Natural History - Has a Crocodilian Photo Gallery and several Vertebrate Paleontology Databases.
- Natural History Museum - London
- Natural History of Los Angeles County
- NCBI Taxonomy Browser - National Center for Biotechnology Information provides genetic codes, searchable by common name or scientific name.
- National Fish and Wildlife Foundation
- National Geographic
- King Cobra
- Archives (1996-1999)
- Index of Features (1996-2003)
- National Geographic Magazine (current issue)
- National Geographic Magazine Archives (1997-2006)
- National Science Digital Library
- National Wildlife Federation
- Natural History Notebooks - Canadian Museum of Nature provides facts about 246 animal species.
- Natural History of Useful Aquatic Mammals - NOAA photograph collection contains almost 300 images of marine mammals and marine vertebrates and invertebrates.
- Nature - PBS
- Nature Conservancy
- NatureServe Explorer - "An authoritative source for information on more than 70,000 plants, animals, and ecosystems of the United States and Canada. Explorer includes particularly in-depth coverage for rare and endangered species."
- New York State Department of Environmental Conservation - Endangered, Threatened and Special Concern Fish & Wildlife Species of New York State
- North American Amphibian Monitoring Program (NAAMP)
- North American Mammals - Searchable database of all living mammals of North America (National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution)
- Owens Foundation for Wildlife Conservation - Founded by American zoologists Mark and Delia Owens, (authors of Cry of the Kalahari, and The Eye of the Elephant), the organization is dedicated to the study and conservation of endangered species, both in Africa and the United States.
- Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center - Located near Jamestown, North Dakota and
operated by the Biological Resources Division of the U.S. Geological Survey, the site is a rich resource for locating biological resources.
- Site Map
- Northern Prairie Biological Resources
- Animal Congregations, or What Do You Call a Group Of.....?.
- American Society of Primatologists
- The Anthropology of African Apes by Barbara J. King, Anthro Notes, Volume 29, No. 1, Spring 2008.
- African Primates at Home - M.K. Holder
- Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund
- Dogged: Primatologist Brian Hare investigates the social behavior of chimpanzees and bonobos in Africa. But dogs and foxes showed him the way - By Virginia Morell, Smithsonian Magazine, October 2007.
- Guerrillas in Their Midst: Face to face with Congo's imperiled mountain gorillas - By Paul Raffaele, Smithsonian Magazine, October 2007.
- Jane Goodall Institute
- Living Links - Located at Emory University, the Center "specializes in comparisons of the social life, ecology, cognition, neurology, and molecular genetics of apes and humans."
- Primate Info Net - "International primate information clearinghouse."
- Robert Winkler - Nature Writing - Collection of essays on birds and other wildlife in New England's "suburban wilderness"
- Santa Cruz Predatory Bird Research Group - Located at Long Marine Lab at the University of California in Santa Cruz, the site provides information about the restoration of endangered Peregrine falcon populations in California since 1975.
- Scientific American
- Smithsonian Institution - Includes
- National Museum of Natural History
- Conservation and Research Center
- Smithsonian Environmental Research Center
- Smithsonian Tropical Research Center
- Smithsonian Magazine - The Science and Nature section has hundreds animal-related articles including:
- Saving Mali's Migratory Elephants - By Laura Helmuth, Smithsonian Magazine, July 2005.
- Fish Story: Native trout are returning to America's rivers and streams, thanks to new thinking by scientists and conservationists - By Robert M. Poole, Smithsonian Magazine, August 2007.
- Guerrillas in Their Midst: Face to face with Congo's imperiled mountain gorillas - By Paul Raffaele, Smithsonian Magazine, October 2007.
- Dogged: Primatologist Brian Hare investigates the social behavior of chimpanzees and bonobos in Africa. But dogs and foxes showed him the way - By Virginia Morell, Smithsonian Magazine, October 2007.
- Deep Trouble: Coral reefs are clearly struggling. The only debate for marine scientists is whether the harm is being done on a local or global scale - By Mark Schrope, Smithsonian Magazine, September 24, 2007.
- The Amazing Albatrosses: They fly 50 miles per hour. Go years without touching land. Predict the weather. Mate for life. And they're among the world's most endangered birds. Can albatrosses be saved? - By Kennedy Warne, Smithsonian Magazine, September 01, 2007.
- Species in Parks: Flora and Fauna Database Online Query System - Databases of vascular plant and vertebrate animal species reported to occur within lands managed by the U.S. National Park Service.
- Texas Natural History Collections - Located at the University of Texas in Austin, the site is a rich online resource, especially for fish
(Ichthyology), reptiles
(Herpetology) and Cave Biology
(Biospeleology).
- Threatened Animals - World Conservation Monitoring Centre
- Tree of Life Web Project - A multi-authored, distributed Internet project containing information about phylogeny and biodiversity. Coordinated and edited by David R. Maddison.
- Triptych A Digital Initiative of Bryn Mawr, Haverford and Swarthmore College Libraries - "Draws from four repositories — Bryn Mawr College Library Special Collections; the Swarthmore College Peace Collection, which focuses on social reform and issues of peace; and the Haverford College Library Special Collections, which shares with the Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College the stewardship of the records of the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Society of Friends." You can search within The Castle Collection of Natural History Illustrations, an image database of over 1300 images. Included are all of the plates from Edward Lear's Illustrations of the family psittacidae, or parrots (1832). Use the Advanced Search option to limit by collection . A search within this collection for birds, for example, retrieves over 400 results.
- Type Specimens of Birds in the United States National Museum - Searchable Smithsonian database of bird types from H. G. Deignan's 1961 book.
- U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service - This is a good place to locate information on endangered or threatened species such as the bald eagle, bog turtles and loons.
- Wildlife Conservation Society - Head quartered at New York City's Bronx Zoo, the Wildlife Conservation Society works to save wildlife and wild lands throughout the world.
- Wildlife Rehabilitation Information Directory - Ronda DeVold.
- World Wildlife Fund - Their Wildfinder is searchable database of more than 26,000 species.
- Zoos
- American Association of Zoo Keepers
- American Zoo and Aquarium Association - Provides a Zoo & Aquarium Directory
- Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden
- Lincoln Park Zoo - Chicago
- Los Angeles Zoo
- National Zoo - Washington, D.C.
- Phoenix Zoo
- St. Louis Zoo
- San Diego Zoo - Has a
- Giant Panda Research Station
- Center for Reproduction of Endangered Species