Biology is my lifelong love and undergrad degree. I'm also particularly fond of Australia and the American mid/southwest. Someday I'll move to SA and farm potoroos, but in the meantime I'm a freelance scientific illustrator based in California.

I'm only just starting to get into arthropods and fungi, so ID help there is especially welcome.

Some favorite identification sources (and always looking for more if anyone has recommendations):
The Jepson Manual: Higher Plants of California
USDA Plants Database (http://plants.usda.gov/java/)
The Sibley Guide to Birds [North America]
Kaufman Field Guide to Mammals of North America
www.californiaherps.com
Hawai'i's Sea Creatures (Hoover)
The Ultimate Guide to Hawai'ian Reef Fishes (Hoover)
Reef Coral/Creature/Fish Identification: Florida Caribbean Bahamas (Humann & DeLoach)

A Complete Guide to Reptiles of Australia (Wilson & Swan)
The Field Guide to the Birds of Australia (Pizzey & Knight)
Mammals of Australia (Strahan)
FloraBase: Western Australian Flora (http://florabase.dec.wa.gov.au/)
PlantNET: NSW FloraOnline (http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/trad_keys.htm)

Collins/Princeton Birds of Europe (Svensson, Mullarney, & Zetterstrom)

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Stylidiaceae - Photo CC BY-NC-ND Kate's Photo Diary CC
Stylidiaceae info
The family Stylidiaceae is a taxon of dicotyledonous flowering plants. It consists of five genera with over 240 species, most of which are endemic to Australia and New Zealand. Members of Stylidiaceae are typically grass-like herbs or small shrubs and can be perennials or annuals. Most species are free standing or self-supporting, though a few can be climbing or scrambling (Stylidium scandens uses leaf tips recurved into hooks to climb). (From Wikipedia)
Lentibulariaceae - Photo CC BY-NC-SA Kai Yan, Joseph Wong CC
Lentibulariaceae info
Lentibulariaceae (bladderwort family) is a family of carnivorous plants containing three genera, Genlisea, the corkscrew plants, Pinguicula, the butterworts, and Utricularia, the bladderworts. (From Wikipedia)
New World pitcher plants - Photo CC BY-NC Du-Sa-Ni-Ma CC
New World pitcher plants info
Sarraceniaceae is a family of pitcher plants (along with Nepenthaceae), belonging to order Ericales (previously Nepenthales). (From Wikipedia)
Droseraceae - Photo CC BY-NC-ND Paul Huber CC
Droseraceae info
Droseraceae is the botanical name for a family of flowering plants. The family is also known under its common name, the sundew family. (From Wikipedia)
Nepenthaceae - Photo CC BY-ND Jack Wolf CC
Nepenthaceae info
The Nepenthes (pronounced /nɨˈpɛnθiːz/, from Greek: ne 'not', penthos 'grief, sorrow'; named after the mythical drug Nepenthe), popularly known as tropical pitcher plants or monkey cups, are a genus of carnivorous plants in the monotypic family Nepenthaceae. The genus comprises roughly 120 species, numerous natural and many cultivated hybrids. They are mostly liana-forming plants of the Old World tropics, ranging from South China, Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines; westward to Madagascar (2 species) and the Seychelles... (From Wikipedia)
snakes - Photo CC BY-NC-ND brattnet CC
snakes info
Snakes are elongate, legless, carnivorous reptiles of the suborder Serpentes that can be distinguished from legless lizards by their lack of eyelids and external ears. Like all squamates, snakes are ectothermic, amniote vertebrates covered in overlapping scales. Many species of snakes have skulls with many more joints than their lizard ancestors, enabling them to swallow prey much larger than their heads with their highly mobile jaws. To accommodate their narrow bodies, snakes' paired organs (such as... (From Wikipedia)
rodents - Photo CC BY-NC-SA Bruce E. Hengst Sr. CC
rodents info
Rodentia is an order of mammals also known as rodents, characterised by two continuously growing incisors in the upper and lower jaws which must be kept short by gnawing. (From Wikipedia)
Diprotodontia - Photo CC BY Just chaos CC
Diprotodontia info
Diprotodontia ( /daɪˌproʊtɵˈdɒnʃⁱə/; Greek: διπρωτός diprotos, meaning "two front" and οδοντος odontos meaning "teeth") is a large order of about 120 marsupial mammals including the kangaroos, wallabies, possums, koala, wombats, and many others. Extinct diprotodonts include the rhinoceros-sized Diprotodon, and Thylacoleo, the so-called "marsupial lion". (From Wikipedia)
bandicoots - Photo CC BY GregTheBusker CC
bandicoots info
The order Peramelemorphia includes the bandicoots and bilbies: it equates approximately to the mainstream of marsupial omnivores. All members of the order are endemic to the twin land masses of Australia-New Guinea and most have the characteristic bandicoot shape: a plump, arch-backed body with a long, delicately tapering snout, very large upright ears, relatively long, thin legs, and a thin tail. Their size varies from about 140 grams up to 2 kilograms, but most species are... (From Wikipedia)
carnivorous marsupials & numbat - Photo CC BY-NC-ND Scott MacLeod Liddle CC
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The order Dasyuromorphia (meaning "hairy tail") comprises most carnivorous marsupials, including quolls, dunnarts, the Numbat, the Tasmanian Devil, and the recently extinct Thylacine. The only exceptions are the omnivorous bandicoots (order Peramelemorphia) and the marsupial moles (which eat meat but are very different and are now accorded an order of their own, Notoryctemorphia). (From Wikipedia)
pangolins - Photo CC BY-NC-SA Esther Simpson CC
pangolins info
A pangolin ( /ˈpæŋɡəlɪn/), also scaly anteater or Trenggiling, is a mammal of the order Pholidota. There is only one extant family (Manidae) and one genus (Manis) of pangolins, comprising eight species. There are also a number of extinct taxa. Pangolins have large keratin scales covering their skin and are the only mammals with this adaptation. They are found in tropical regions of Africa and Asia. The name "pangolin" derives from the Malay word pengguling ("something that... (From Wikipedia)
monotremes - Photo CC BY-NC-ND Ian Sanderson CC
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Monotremes (from the Greek Word, monos 'single' + trema 'hole', referring to the cloaca) are mammals that lay eggs (Prototheria) instead of giving birth to live young like marsupials (Metatheria) and placental mammals (Eutheria). (From Wikipedia)
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A nudibranch ( /ˈnjuːdɨbræŋk/) is a member of what is now a taxonomic clade, and what was previously a suborder, of soft-bodied, marine gastropod mollusks which shed their shell after their larval stage. They are noted for their often extraordinary colors and striking forms. The clade Nudibranchia is the largest clade within the heterobranchs, with more than 3,000 described species. (From Wikipedia)
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