Animals
All About Birds
Bird Watching is North America's fastest growing hobby, and this Cornell Ornithology Lab site is designed for the beginner and the expert alike. Featuring range maps, habitat information, and songs, the site instructs on bird identification, where to go birding, what kind of viewing equipment to use, and more.
Animal
Info - Information on Rare, Threatened and Endangered Mammals
This highly organized site is searchable and contains brief information, including pictures, biology, habitat, and status of endangered mammals worldwide.
Butterflies
of North America
Web site is a “work in progress,” consisting primarily of the following information:Distribution maps showing the counties in which occurrence of a particular species has been verified. Photos of the adult and caterpillar (when available). Species accounts containing information on size, identifying characteristics, life history, flight, caterpillar hosts, adult food, habitat, species range, conservation status, and management needs. Species checklists for each county in the U. S. and state in northern Mexico.
Connecticut Dog Federation
The Connecticut Dog Federation is an association of dog clubs within the state. Its member clubs represent all phases of the world of purebred dogs. The Federation developed this site to communicate with our member clubs. Our goal is to be able to alert the fancy with the latest legislation & other news.
Endangered
Species
Information on endangered species around the world from Environmental Education Link (EE-Link). Those in the United States are listed by region, group, species or common name, or extinct status.
Endangered
Species Program
Completely up-to-date lists of endangered animals and plants in the U.S. are here. In many cases there are links to further information, including photos. From the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
Internet
Resource Guide for Zoology
This Web site is an index and guide to Internet resources in zoology and other related life sciences. It is a reference tool for information regarding systematics, taxonomy, and nomenclature.
International
Species Information System (ISIS) Abstracts
ISIS serves nearly 550 zoological institutional members from 54 countries. This directory lists the living collections of these organizations. It is an alphabetical list by scientific name of the major categories Mammals, Birds, Reptiles, Amphibians, Bony Fish, Cartilaginous Fish, and Jawless Fish.
Marine
Biological Laboratory
From Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, search their library, read news from the marine biology field, and find out about courses, institutes, and special events at WHOI.
National
Wildlife Federation
This organization's Web site for conservation information and activities for adults and children makes the connection between learning about wildlife and wild places and taking action to save what's left. Covers endangered habitats and animals, land stewardship, water quality, and wetlands. Of special note is their Got Wildlife? section where you can learn how to attract wildlife to your backyard.
OceanLink
This searchable site offers information and news on marine biology; including Ask a Scientist, a question and answer forum with an archive; career information; AquaFacts, detailed files on jellyfish, salmon, whales, dolphins, porpoises, harbour seals, octopus, squid, sea otters, and more; marine animal records for the largest, smallest, fastest, etc.
Species
This site supplies extensive information on the following endangered animals: African and Asian elephants; black, white, Indian, Javan and Sumatran rhinoceros; whales; brown and spectacled bears; marine turtles; gorilla; chimpanzee; bonobo; orangutan; and tiger.
The
WWW Virtual Library: Zoos
This site links to Commercial and public zoos, private zoos and special collections. There are also links to zoo related organizations, zoo related web pages, animal related links, animal pictures and animal sounds.
Plants
Glossary of Botanical Terms
Contains very basic definitions with hypertext links to other terms for more than 4,400 terms relating to gardening, horticulture, botany and landscape architecture and is regularly updated.
Introduction
to the Plant Kingdom
Subtitled: An introduction to the world of plants from an evolutionary perspective, this site explores the evolution of plants beginning with how plants are classified, ancient algae, the moving of plants to the land, mosses, ferns, and the development of seeds, through to the diversity of flowering plants.
International
Plant Names Index
An authority file database of over one million entries for the scientific names of all seed plants (flowering plants and gymnosperms).
Noble
Foundation Plant Image Gallery
A searchable collection of images to assist with the identification of plants.
Preserving
and Digitizing Plant Images
Subtitled Linking Plant Images and Databases for Public Access, this is a database of plant images along with their associated data.
The
Royal Horticultural Society
Britain's leading gardening society offers a plethora of gardening and botanical information, which includes scientific and research articles, plants catalogue and photographs, and the plant forum (in "RHS News") which includes new plant varieties.
Vascular
Plant Images
These are plants that have systems for transporting water and photosynthetic products and are differentiated into stems, leaves, and roots.
Last update: 11/9/07
All About BirdsBird Watching is North America's fastest growing hobby, and this Cornell Ornithology Lab site is designed for the beginner and the expert alike. Featuring range maps, habitat information, and songs, the site instructs on bird identification, where to go birding, what kind of viewing equipment to use, and more.
Animal
Info - Information on Rare, Threatened and Endangered MammalsThis highly organized site is searchable and contains brief information, including pictures, biology, habitat, and status of endangered mammals worldwide.
Butterflies
of North America Web site is a “work in progress,” consisting primarily of the following information:Distribution maps showing the counties in which occurrence of a particular species has been verified. Photos of the adult and caterpillar (when available). Species accounts containing information on size, identifying characteristics, life history, flight, caterpillar hosts, adult food, habitat, species range, conservation status, and management needs. Species checklists for each county in the U. S. and state in northern Mexico.
Connecticut Dog Federation
The Connecticut Dog Federation is an association of dog clubs within the state. Its member clubs represent all phases of the world of purebred dogs. The Federation developed this site to communicate with our member clubs. Our goal is to be able to alert the fancy with the latest legislation & other news.
Endangered
Species Information on endangered species around the world from Environmental Education Link (EE-Link). Those in the United States are listed by region, group, species or common name, or extinct status.
Endangered
Species ProgramCompletely up-to-date lists of endangered animals and plants in the U.S. are here. In many cases there are links to further information, including photos. From the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
Internet
Resource Guide for ZoologyThis Web site is an index and guide to Internet resources in zoology and other related life sciences. It is a reference tool for information regarding systematics, taxonomy, and nomenclature.
International
Species Information System (ISIS) AbstractsISIS serves nearly 550 zoological institutional members from 54 countries. This directory lists the living collections of these organizations. It is an alphabetical list by scientific name of the major categories Mammals, Birds, Reptiles, Amphibians, Bony Fish, Cartilaginous Fish, and Jawless Fish.
Marine
Biological Laboratory From Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, search their library, read news from the marine biology field, and find out about courses, institutes, and special events at WHOI.
National
Wildlife FederationThis organization's Web site for conservation information and activities for adults and children makes the connection between learning about wildlife and wild places and taking action to save what's left. Covers endangered habitats and animals, land stewardship, water quality, and wetlands. Of special note is their Got Wildlife? section where you can learn how to attract wildlife to your backyard.
OceanLinkThis searchable site offers information and news on marine biology; including Ask a Scientist, a question and answer forum with an archive; career information; AquaFacts, detailed files on jellyfish, salmon, whales, dolphins, porpoises, harbour seals, octopus, squid, sea otters, and more; marine animal records for the largest, smallest, fastest, etc.
SpeciesThis site supplies extensive information on the following endangered animals: African and Asian elephants; black, white, Indian, Javan and Sumatran rhinoceros; whales; brown and spectacled bears; marine turtles; gorilla; chimpanzee; bonobo; orangutan; and tiger.
The
WWW Virtual Library: ZoosThis site links to Commercial and public zoos, private zoos and special collections. There are also links to zoo related organizations, zoo related web pages, animal related links, animal pictures and animal sounds.
Plants
Glossary of Botanical TermsContains very basic definitions with hypertext links to other terms for more than 4,400 terms relating to gardening, horticulture, botany and landscape architecture and is regularly updated.
Introduction
to the Plant KingdomSubtitled: An introduction to the world of plants from an evolutionary perspective, this site explores the evolution of plants beginning with how plants are classified, ancient algae, the moving of plants to the land, mosses, ferns, and the development of seeds, through to the diversity of flowering plants.
International
Plant Names IndexAn authority file database of over one million entries for the scientific names of all seed plants (flowering plants and gymnosperms).
Noble
Foundation Plant Image GalleryA searchable collection of images to assist with the identification of plants.
Preserving
and Digitizing Plant ImagesSubtitled Linking Plant Images and Databases for Public Access, this is a database of plant images along with their associated data.
The
Royal Horticultural SocietyBritain's leading gardening society offers a plethora of gardening and botanical information, which includes scientific and research articles, plants catalogue and photographs, and the plant forum (in "RHS News") which includes new plant varieties.
Vascular
Plant ImagesThese are plants that have systems for transporting water and photosynthetic products and are differentiated into stems, leaves, and roots.
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