My Favorite Online References

Plants

• Calflora: http://www.calflora.org
• Monterey Wildflowers: https://montereywildflowers.com
• Yosemite Hikes: http://www.yosemitehikes.com/wildflowers/yosemite-wildflowers-guide.htm
• Chris Nelson's Guide to SF Bay Area Wildflowers: https://fred-rum.github.io/bay-area-wildflower-guide/

• Oaks:
  http://ucanr.edu/sites/oak_range/Californias_Rangeland_Oak_Species/

• How to tell Cudweed from Pearly Everlasting:
  https://montereywildflowers.com/asteraceae%20-%20cudweeds/
  old obsolete ref: https://montereywildflowers.com/Asterac_Everlasting_1.php

• Blue Dicks vs Ookow:
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tx4dAkeWP7E&t=1232s

• Manzanitas:
  Toni Corelli's "Checklist of the Vascular Plants of San Mateo and Santa Clara Counties , California" lists the following species: A.canescens , A.crustacea , A.glandulosa , and A.glauca .

• Thistles:
  https://ucanr.edu/sites/livestockandnaturalresources/files/283306.pdf

• Plants of Southern California: Anza-Borrego Desert Annuals From Seedling To Flower
  ** http://tchester.org/plants/analysis/abdsp/annuals.html
  ** http://tchester.org/bd/species/baby_annuals_morphology.html#table4

Birds

• Audubon: http://www.audubon.org/field-guide/bird
• All About Birds: http://www.allaboutbirds.org

• You can upload your audio to this page: https://birdnet.cornell.edu/api/
  Then click on the spectrogram to hear exactly what BirdNet thinks at each moment. This API is basically the backend used by the BirdNet sound ID app, but it shows everything including low confidence matches. So the caveat is that you have to decide what is too low confidence to be considered.

Feathers

• The Feather Atlas: https://www.fws.gov/lab/featheratlas/

• Featherbase (Germany/Europe-based): https://www.featherbase.info/en/home
  later Wing and Tail Collection: http://digitalcollections.pugetsound.edu/cdm/landingpage/collection/slaterwing

Animals

• Identifying Newts:
  * http://www.californiaherps.com/identification/salamandersid/newts.html
  * Many references regarding newt roadkill:
  https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/pacific-newt-roadkill-main-project-lexington-reservoir/journal/30430-pacific-newt-taricha-roadkill-references

• Bones:
  http://www.boneid.net

• Tracks & Sign:
  * www.conservationscats.com
  * http://www.conservationscats.com/scat-identificatioin
  * https://www.inaturalist.org/posts/16435-who-are-the-trackers-on-inaturalist
  * https://www.youtube.com/user/beartracker777/videos

• California Mammals:
  * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mammals_of_California
  * http://www.sfbaywildlife.info/species/mammals.htm

• Identifying Deer in CA:
  https://nrm.dfg.ca.gov/FileHandler.ashx?DocumentID=23228&inline

• Wildlife Preservation:
  http://www.openspaceauthority.org/preservation/wildlife.html

• Animal Control:
  http://www.aaanimalcontrol.com/professional-trapper/wildlife/ca-san-jose-wildlife.htm

Insects

• BugGuide: http://bugguide.net
  


• What's That Bug: http://www.whatsthatbug.com
  
• Bumble Bees: https://www.inaturalist.org/journal/truthseqr/32809-yellow-faced-bumble-bees-other-pyrobombus-species-in-the-sf-bay-area
• Flies:
  * https://sites.google.com/view/flyguide
  * drone flies (a type of flower fly) https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1CsEP9tn79Xa7S7ptxh2XeHXB5NHy2Al_KtVwbzkwopk/preview
  
• Galls:
  * https://www.inaturalist.org/journal/finatic/2183-gall-identification
  * http://joycegross.com/galls_ca_oak.php
  * https://www.inaturalist.org/posts/39523-130-california-galls-listed-by-plant#activity_comment_5376724
  

Lichens

• Caloplaca (firedots)
  https://data.environment.sa.gov.au/Content/Publications/JABG29P053_Kantvilas.pdf

Mosses

• http://bryophyte.cnps.org/ (Click on the resources tab, and click Beginner. There are a bunch of things there that you might find interesting.)
  

Posted by truthseqr, April 01, 2017 20:31