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vogelaar.opzijnbest All things to do with birds and birding, with lots of links for tours and holidays

Dean Eades Wildlife Photography

Puente Genave birdwatching A small and ecological birdwatching tour company located in the Cazorla´s Natural Park in the province of Jaen (Spain).

ORGANISATIONS NGOs BirdLife International BirdLife International is a global partnership of conservation organisations that strives to conserve birds, their habitats and global biodiversity, working with people towards sustainability in the use of natural resources. It is possible to access all the partners through this parent site. BirdLife International assesses extinction threats for all bird species, and they use their own categories to identify the levels of threat. Their information is also used by the IUCN. Range maps and regular news are included.

Birding Pal Find birders to go birdwatching with anywhere in the world.

Guidestar Lists all UK charities, this link goes to nature conservation charities. Very useful is the ‘Clustered search results’ listed on the left side of each search, which groups similar charities from your search, enabling a much more targeted search easily.

ORGANISATIONS GOVERNMENTAL

SPECIES LISTS Avibase Lists the entire world’s birds in Clements’ taxonomic sequence (default), the list are in English with scientific names for all countries and there are list in most other languages as well (including Portuguese and Spanish) and other taxonomic versions available. Copy to Excel to produce tickable trip lists for anywhere.

MAPS See BirdLife International above and for range maps for All Classes see links below.

IDENTIFICATION AIDS VIDEO The Internet Bird Collection This site hosts videos of the world’s birds sent in by the public, 30,997 of 5,802 species and is very useful. Sponsored by HBW.

PHOTO Visual Resources Vireo (Visual Resources for Ornithology) With more than 150,000 photographs representing over 7,000 species VIREO is the world's most comprehensive collection of ornithological images. Not all photos are on line for free viewing but copies can be ordered from their full listings.

Arthur Grosset Birds There is a large photo database of high quality pictures, of mainly Neotropical birds taken by the webmaster, with relevant information on the species and the place taken.

Avesfoto by Edson Endrigo Probably the best photographer in the Neotropics today, author of numerous books, this new website has some excellent photos.

wild bird gallery This is a Swedish site, with full English option, has seabirds pictures that are exceptionally good.

Worldbirder Has 6,000 photographs of about 2,500 species.

Mangoverde This site has 17,000+ photos of nearly 5,566 species, some with sound. Also has many butterfly photos.

SOUND Tony Phillips' Links to other Birdsong and Birding Sites Get most of the world's species calls free.

Xeno-canto Free downloads of bird songs from tropical America. The site contains 23,208 recordings of 3437 species, but is increasing rapidly.

World birdsongs Ohio Primarily for songs and calls of which 26,000 are available.

RESEARCH PAPERS & INFO OWL database The online library of the Natural History Museum (UK); Ornithology, which is based at Tring, which has the largest ornithological library and collections in the world. The collection is largely based on Rothschild's collection.

OWL database Edward Grey Institute of the Oxford University, UK.

SORA Searchable Ornithological Research Archive

AOP El Hornero (Buenos Aires) Revista de Ornitología Neotropical

USGS Raptor Information System

BIRDS GENERAL Birdwatching Trip of the Neotropics Charles Hesse’s website covering his 2 year independent trip, logging 2,450 species. It features all the information given on BSG, plus his photos of 1,300 species (available on cd).

Surfbirds This is full of photo gallery, chat and trip reports, it also has peoples lists on by ranking covering all parts of the world and is a great all round bird site.

Fat Birder Probably the best all round birding site on the web. Info, news, tours and photos, plus probably the world’s biggest list of links to other birding related sites.

Birding Blogs A blog directory, mainly British.

Birding Links This site has 27,000 links birding websites around the world, with clickable maps and thousands of trip reports.

camacdonald or 'Birding Hotspots Round the World’ Lots of links to many sites but somewhat out of date.

Deanbirders Deanbirders are a group of birders in the Forest of Dean area. The group has some less able members and the website focuses on places and activities for the less mobile. As well as birding activities the group keeps comprehensive records and runs schemes promoting bird boxes and feeding stations.

ORGANISATIONS NGOs BATUMI RAPTOR COUNT . A component of the project now in full development is ecotourism. Local families are organizing lodges for visitors. This generates income either for the locals and for the project itself. Developing tourism within local families acts against propension to poaching, appearently the greatest threat to migrants around Batumi.

International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN) The IUCN provide the longest running and most widely used list of threatened species there is. Search the database for any threatened species and get up to date information. Information is collect from expert individuals and organisations from around the world, the Red List Authority for birds is BirdLife International. The IUCN use their own categories to identify the levels of threat.

International Convention on the Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) Search for any species listed as restricted or forbidden to trade. Also has a useful links page to other websites covering other important international conventions on natural and cultural resources.

GLOBAL CANOPY PROGRAMME

Try these 3 websites from World Wildlife Fund World Wildlife Fund World Wildlife Fund

Smithsonian Institute National Museum of Natural History Also see the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute

World Institute For Conservation & Environment (WICE) Has world checklists to many taxa on its pages.

Wildlife Conservation Society

ORGANISATIONS GOVERNMENTAL Peace Corps US students serve their country in the cause of peace by living and working in developing countries. More than 190,000 Peace Corps Volunteers have been invited by 139 host countries since founding.

World List of Protected Areas This list is produced by the United Nations Environmental Program (UNEP), The World Conservation Union (IUCN), and World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA). They produce the World list of Protected Areas and the more comprehensive World Database on Protected Areas (WDPA) for 1993, 1997 and 2004. Note the latter has to be downloaded; it contains some huge shape files and requires a GIS ArcReader or similiar type program to read. Clicking on the 2003 list can access statistics for the 2003 list but the list itself is not there, the file is in Adobe format.

OTHER VERTEBRATE CLASSES WORLD Arkive Has audiovisual on more than 15,000 endangered species from all Classes not just birds.

Mongabay One of the best websites there is, original interviews and articles. Focuses on tropical wildlife.

MAMMALS Mammal's Planet Full mammal list with information and often pictures.

Animal Diversity Web Detailed coverage.

Animal Info - Information on Endangered Mammals Contains detailed info on rare species

Bats Organization for Bat Conservation

Bat Conservation International

REPTILES HerpNET Detailed website bringing together info from museums around the world.

The Reptile Database For lists and general info on all 6 Orders try here. The website also has a good links page to other reptile websites and sites with general biological information.

AMPHIBIANS AmphibiaWeb This is a new website designed to inform users about amphibians worldwide and their plight in regard to recent numbers of species either going extinct or being in catastrophic decline. It lists all the world’s species and has info and in some cases photos.

Global Amphibian Assessment A new website intenting to providing in-depth info on the status of the world’s amphibians, via a powerful search engine.

AQUATIC LIFE FISH FishBase Has info on all 28,500 marine fish species known to science on the website. This has an amazing searchable database, far exceeding anything for birds or anything I have seen. The same info is available on FishBase 2004 DVD or CD-ROMs. It comes together with the FishBase 2000 book and can be ordered for US$95 including air-mail. The links page is very good.

AQUATIC LIFE ALL CLASSES MARINE BIOLOGY Ocean Conserve

Marine Bio.org This is a very good all-round site covering many species and issues.

The Plankton Net Not just plankton! And it has the most extensive list of links for all marine species and themes.

Malacology Molluscs database for Western Atlantic, also contains a link to Indo-Pacific database.

The Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) is an independent non-profit organisation that promotes responsible fishing practices. It accredits responsible fishing practices worldwide so consumers know when fishing is being carried out responsibly.

The Institute of Cetacean Research

Sea Watch Foundation

FRESHWATER BIOLOGY Water Conserve

Freshwater Biological Association This is a Registered Charity and an independent membership organisation, with members drawn from around the world.

Freshwater Benthic Ecology and Aquatic Entomology An excellent website for taxonomy, checklists and identification.

SPECIES LISTS Species 2000 Indexing the world’s known species, currently nearly one million species are listed.

Biologybase Checklist of Mammals of the World and lists for other classes.

Santa Barbara Software Lots of world bird and mammal databases and updates for Clements bird lists etc.

SPECIES RANGE MAPS World Wildlife Fund; Wildfinder The world’s most detailed database on species distribution, this massive resource has up to date maps of all land vertebrates. It is possible to search by different criteria. The map also covers all the worlds biomes in great detail and the area where a species occurs can be clicked to find info on the biome it is present in.

NatureServe; InfoNatura This is a US website with versions also in Spanish and Portuguese. The main facility of this website is to give distributional information through up to date maps for all the Neotropics, but it is also a VISUAL AID with photos of many species. It is possible to search by different criteria. Two maps for each species are given, the top map only shows which countries the species in question occurs in, it is not a detailed range map. The detailed range map is below the first map, and you will need to scroll down to view it.

RESEARCH PAPERS & INFO BioOne An open online journal used by US universities to which it has hyperlinks.

Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center Gives information on papers organised by state.

TAXONOMY Encyclopedia of Life Aims to catalogue all life forms and has a page of information with illustration and range maps on each. A few pages are fully complete and look good, and about a million more are in progress.

Species 2000 Indexing the world’s known species, both plants and animals, currently nearly one million species are listed.

The Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS) presents a comprehensive, authoritative, and integrated body of knowledge of life support systems. It is a forward-looking publication, designed as a global guide to professional practice, education, and heightened social awareness of critical life support issues.

World Biodiversity Database A taxonomic database and information system that will cover all known species. It uses ITIS Integrated Taxonomic Information System

Tree of Life Phylogenetic tree of life.

Global Biodiversity Information Facility

BY REGION Find links specific to each region here. Within some of these Regional Links pages some countries will have their own specific page of links on BSG which will be called Country Round-up followed by the country concerned.

REGIONAL LINKS: AFROTROPIC

REGIONAL LINKS: ANTARCTIC

REGIONAL LINKS: AUSTRALASIA

REGIONAL LINKS: INDO-MALAY

REGIONAL LINKS: NEARCTIC

REGIONAL LINKS: NEOTROPIC

REGIONAL LINKS: OCEANIA

REGIONAL LINKS: PALEARCTIC

PELAGIC WORLD Monterey Seabirds Info on many sites in many counties but best known for pelagic trips.

Zest for Birds Information on South African birds and on seabird pelagic trips into the Indian Ocean.

Top Census Satellite tracking of marine animals.

Southern Oceans Seabird Study Associations Many good photos on many species.

DIRECTORIES The Open Directory Project The world's biggest directory with nearly 5,000,000 sites.

United Nations Environmental Program (UNEP)

ECOLOGICAL NEWS Science Daily Covers science topics in the news in detail, including the natural world.

National Geographic animals and nature news

Mongabay All about rainforest and other tropical habitats, very useful for facts and figures.

Bioscience Foundation

National Biodiversity News News

An online journal Conservation Evidence

Ecology.com General ecology pages.

Ecological Internet This website is the mother page for many of the other links listed here.

EcoEarth

Climate Ark

PhysOrg

Forests.org

Rainforest Portal

THE ECOLOGIST

BLOGS For nature blogs websites: NATURE BLOG

BIOMES World Wildlife Fund; Wildfinder Covers all the world’s biomes in great detail.

Terrestrial Ecoregions of the World From National Geographic and World Wildlife Fund. Covers all the world’s biomes in great detail using the same information as on their Wildfinder pages.

Journal of Biogeography

GLORIA Global Observation Research Initiative In Alpine Environments Contains very detailed lists of higher (vascular) and lower (bryophytes and lichens) plants of all the major alpine regions of the world, with distribution maps.

RESEARCH PAPERS & INFO LookSmart, Find Articles

Google Académico

NATURAL WORLD GENERAL Centre for Applied Biodiversity Science (CABS) There is an extensive linked reference page.

Conservation International Biodiversity Hotspots Conservation International provides information on the world’s hotspots and there is a useful searchable database, species lists and statistical info as well a page of related links.

World Rainforest Movement

Animal Diversity Web

WORLDWIDE LINKS: CONSERVATION VOLUNTEERING, TRAVEL, HEALTH, GUIDES, TOURS, MAPS, GEOGRAPHY For general non-country specific information please go to WORLDWIDE LINKS: TRAVEL ADVICE, VOLUNTEERING & ACCOMMODATION . For regional information, say on volunteering, go to Regional Links. A few countries have their own pages and these are called Country Round-up followed by the country name.

INVERTEBRATES Suggested Phylogenetic Classification of Invertebrate Animals Three pages showing all the main invertebrate groups and also characteristics key for major groups at Major Characters of Invertebrate Body Design

PROSERIATA & KALYPTORHYNCHIA (Flatworms) World checklist of flatworms (in progress)

INVERTEBRATES; ARTHROPODS GENERAL University of Florida; Entomology & Nematology Useful identification pages illustrating and describing morphological characters for identifying the orders and families of common insects.

Biologybase Biologybase again provides a list that is hard to find elsewhere; all arthropods down to family level.

Common Insect Families A list of the commoner families of insects of the world on one page.

Insect-Sale This website has the largest collection of insect photos in the world!

Ecology of Commanster; Insects Excellent website detailing all life on the Belgian village with lists and photos.

Clemson Entomology

LEPIDOPTERA (Butterflies and Moths) Insects-Online This website aims to list all species of butterflies in the Global Butterfly Species Register. So far only Papilionidae are finished but the rest should be done within 3 years. There is an extensive list of references after the list.

Neotropical Butterflies Set to become a comprehensive photographic database on species from the Neotropics. If you need a species identifying send it in and people can help. Anyone can post their good quality photos here.

Association for Tropical Lepidoptera Produces identification atlas guides for all the world’s species, though some are still works in progress. The Neotropical Atlas will be 125 volumes, and has been started. Also Tropical Lepidoptera Atlas Follow their links to their Electronic Resources on Lepidoptera image database. click here

SATURNID (Butterflies) Saturnids list Lists all Saturnids on a detailed Excel sheet.

ODONATA (Dragonflies and allies) A World Checklist of Odonata

ARACHNIDS (Spiders and Mites) International Society of Arachnology Covers all things to do with spiders, including links for identification and checklists with 1800 other references and has a lists of experts.

Bites and Stings Sort fact from fiction; find out which are the actual poisonous arthropods species.

MECOPTERA (Scorpion-flies and Hanging-flies) A World Checklist of Mecoptera

COLLEMBOLA (Water Bears) A World Checklist of Collembola

TRICHOPTERA (Caddisflies) A World Checklist of Trichoptera

BUMBLE BEES A World Checklist of Bees This British Natural History Museum site gives a checklist of Bumble Bees, which can be searched by regions of the world. It gives info on all 11 species found in this region.

THRIPS A World Checklist of Thrips

LEAFHOPPERS A World Checklist of Leafhoppers

DIPTERA (Flies) A World Checklist of Dolichopodidae

CRAYFISH A World List of Crayfish by Country

FUNGI Recommended List of English Names for Fungi

PLANTS ORGANISATIONS NGOs Royal Botanic Gardens Kew

Botanic Gardens Conservation International

Plantlife

American Chestnut Research and Restoration Project

ORGANISATIONS GOVERNMENTAL Restoration of the American Elm in the Upper Mississippi Watershed

WORLD PLANTS LISTS BY FAMILIES GENERAL ROYAL BOTANICAL GARDENS KEW: WORLD CHECKLIST OF SELECTED PLANT FAMILIES Covers around 200 families. Kew World Checklists

MONOCOTYLEDONS A truly massive database of the world’s 75,000 species of Monocotyledons from Kew Gardens.

GRASSES Another world database from Kew Gardens, lists all 10,800 species, there is also a powerful identification key for which you will need to download software to use.

LEGUMES This data base provides a world checklist of legumes as well as a lot of other information.

GESNERIACEAE World checklist and detailed information on gesneriaceae.

FERNS World checklist and detailed information on ferns and their identification.

BRYOPHYTES Bryophytes Pictures Pictures and list from around the world, view online or buy the cds.

MEDICINAL PLANTS Library Of Congress Links Page; Medicinal Plants

MEDICINAL PLANTS COMMERCIAL Plants For A Future Plants for a future lists 7000 species of useful plants, with very detailed write-ups of the plants, from strains to cultivation and harvesting techniques and uses. There are also lists of plants by categories of uses, such as health, ailments and other effects.

RAINTREE NUTRITION INC. As well as selling their products, Raintree Nutrition Inc. have a database of over 100 of the most important medicinal plants with comprehensive information on each one and references.

PALEONTOLOGY The Virtual Fossil Museum This is an excellent website aimed at education through expert user contributions. Text has hyperlinked words throughout so you can quickly jump to other pages on the website to learn more about any particular aspect, this and the thousands of photographs of fossils etc make the site very user friendly.

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EUROPEAN INDUSTRIAL HEMP ASSOCIATION In Europe if you are starting your own business start here, comprehensive details.

INDUSTRIAL HEMP SUPPLIERS AND MANUFACTURERS Comprehensive worldwide listing of the main suppliers, their products and contact details.

PERMACULTURE A sustainable way of farming by mimicing natures woodland structure. Permaculture.org.uk

Permaculture Magazine

Spiral Seed

ORGANIC, FAIR TRADE, ETHICAL, SAFE FOODS Organic does not use sythesised chemicals for food production.

ORGANIC FOOD DIRECTORY UK, every county covered

NATURAL GROCERY.CO.UK

PLANET ORGANIC UK

REAL FOODS UK: Vegetarian, Fairtrade, Organic, Gluten-Free, Vegan, Wheat-Free and Special Diet Food

CO-OPERATIVE FOOD SHOP UK

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