Nature Links

General Information on Nature -- organizations and databases, etc...

National or Provincial Organizations, Databases, Guides, etc...
• Canadian Wildlife Service - Ontario Region
• Species Info and Database - Natural Heritage Information Centre searchable database by species and geographic area.
• Canadian Museum of Nature
• "Build Your Own" Virtual Field Guide ROM's region-specific field guide to birds, fish and amphibians.
• Bird Studies Canada
• FROGWATCH Ontario section

Eastern Ontario Organizations, Databases, Guides...
• Ottawa Field Naturalists' Club
• Bishops Mills Natural History Centre in Bishops Mills.
• Rideau River Biodiversity Project - info, photos, etc.. on the CMN website.
• Fletcher Wildlife Garden located at the Central Experimental Farm in Ottawa.


Animal Species Websites -- Aids to Identification, etc...

Bird Pages:
• Hinterland Who's Who Bird and Mammal identification and information on Canadian Wildlife Service website.
• Bird Links to the World - North American Section on the Bird Studies Canada website.
• The Owl Pages -- excellent starting point for owl information
• Bird Studies Canada


Amphibian & Reptile Pages:
• FROGWATCH Ontario Species Identification key -- with photos, descriptions and sound files.
• Canadian Amphibian and Reptile Conservation Network (CARCNET) website - lots of info.
• Amphibian Checklist and Identification Guide -- North America
• Tadpoles of the United States and Canada: A Tutorial and Key - photos and identification key info.

Fish Pages:
• Selected Fishes of New York State coloured illustrations of a wide variety of species. Click on a variety and go to longer description and larger illustration
• Brian Coad's "Fishes of Canada's National Capital Region" contain species accounts, names lists and identification information.


Crayfish:
• Crayfish Homepage at Crandall Lab of Brigham Young University.

Molluscs -- various
• Bivalve Website of Ohio State University.
• The Quick and The Dead article on challenges of survival for freshwater mussels in North America, by G. Thomas Watters.
• Identification, Collection, and the Art of Zen Malacology -- article on collection and identification of specimens, by G. Thomas Watters.
• Electric Elliptio Land -- G. Thomas Watters' online guide for identification of freshwater mussels.
• Martin Kohl's Freshwater Molluscan Shells -- well-organized galleries of photos of freshwater snails.
• Martin Kohl's Links to Freshwater Molluscan Shells -- Martin Kohl's super collection of links to a wide range of molluscan websites.

Insects & Spiders -- Dragonflies, Bees, Caterpillars, Butterflies, etc...:

• Nearctic Spider Database image search. Photos to help identify spiders.
• Odonatology (Damselfly and Dragonfly) Home Page - many photos, data, links.
• Digital Dragonflies - photos, data, links.
• NJOdes -- New Jersey Dragonfly website - excellent resources and photo galleries to aide in identification of dragon and damselflies.
• Bumblebee Identifier online program from University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
• Guide to Identifying Bumblebees - printable fieldguide from University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
• Caterpillars of Eastern Forests -- organized collection of photos of caterpillars.
• Butterfly Photo Gallery -- thumbnails of photographs by Jay Cossey.
• Moths of Canada -- Species Lists & Image Library -- online resource from the Government of Canada's 'Canadian Biodiversity Information Facility'. Excellent photos of hundreds of moths organized by species lists.
• Lynn Scott's "Moths of the Ottawa Area" -- Lynn Scott's wonderful image library and notes for an ongoing project of recording species data for moths of the Ottawa are.
• Cindy Mead's gallery of moths photographed in Michigan -- the moth section of Cindy Mead's superb collection of her nature photography.



Botany Links:

Fungi and Mushroom Links -- aids to identification, etc...
• George Barron's Website on Fungi -- website of George Barron, author of "Mushrooms of Ontario and Eastern Canada".
• Tom Volk's Fungi Website -- lots of interesting stuff on here. Check our the Fungus of the Month section.
• MushroomExpert.com Website -- contains a well-organized library of excellent photos and notes on many fungi.


Lichen Links -- aids to identification, etc...
• Lichens of North America website - photos and info.


Astronomy Links:
• Moon Phase Calendar
• Skywatcher's Diary -- monthly astronomy events calendar from Univ. of Michegan's Abrams Planetarium.
• 2002 Meteor Shower Calendar - on website of the International Meteor Organization.
• Aurora Predictions - online custom aurora activity forecasts from the University of Alaska's Geophysical Institute.




Last updated: 02/12/06