Professional Documents
Culture Documents
information. These web‐sites are great for middle and high school students who need
information for science projects; help with information for papers and just fun stuff. These
web‐sites were chosen for their great pictures.
Animals:
Animal sounds and video ‐ http://macaulaylibrary.org/index.do
I looked up “bluebird” and got 100 examples of audio and video files to review. A variety of
bluebirds were presented. Types of bluebirds included: Eastern, Western, mountain, and Asian
Fairy‐bluebird.
Monarch butterflies ‐ http://www.monarchlab.umn.edu/
“Monarchs in the Classroom aims to promote and facilitate inquiry‐based education through
original curricula and research opportunities. We use monarchs and other insects as focal
organisms in inquiry‐based teacher workshops and conduct an annual Insect Fair to spotlight
student research. The monarch butterfly serves as an excellent tool to get students excited
about science and to teach inquiry in the classroom.”
This site has materials for elementary and middle school teachers.
Ants of the World ‐ http://www.antweb.org/index.jsp
“At this moment, more than one thousand trillion ants are scurrying all over the Earth. If every
human climbed aboard one side of a scale, and every ant crawled onto the other side, the scale
would just about balance.
Ants are everywhere. They are found under logs, in trees, in the stomachs of frogs, and
underground. They use tools, herd and milk other animals, and live in highly organized colonies
which can last for hundreds of years.
Ants are incredibly diverse. They can be as small as the point of a pin, or as big as a walnut.
They can look as sleek as sports cars, or as bulky as tanks. AntWeb illustrates this diversity by
providing information and high quality color images of many of the approximately 10,000
known species of ants. AntWeb currently focuses on the species of the Nearctic and Malagasy
biogeographic regions, and the ant genera of the world. Over time, the site will grow to
describe every species of ant known.”
"The Living World of Molluscs" ‐ http://www.weichtiere.at/english/index.html
This site is full of information and pictures about snails, slugs, squid, octopuses, mussels, clams
and elephant tusks.
African bird image database ‐ http://www.birdquest.net/afbid
“The African Bird Image Database has been created to bring together photographs taken in the
African region of as many bird species as possible. We hope this will provide both a useful tool
for researchers and a splendid collection of photographs for anyone to browse.”
Venomous Reptiles ‐ http://www.venomousreptiles.org/
This site is the homepage for the society of venomous snake owners. It contains information on
venomous snakes, pictures and a large amount information on all types of topics related to
these animals.
Neogene Marine Biota of Tropical America (NMITA) ‐ http://porites.geology.uiowa.edu/
“Site contains images and information on taxa collected as part of two large multi‐taxa fossil
sampling programs. NMITA is designed for use in research and education in systematics and
evolutionary paleontology. Partial information is currently available for bryozoans, corals
(zooxanthellate and azooxanthellate), molluscs (gastropods and bivalves), ostracodes, and fish.
Users may click on taxa to receive conventional taxonomic information on authorship,
synonyms, morphology, type specimens, and spatial and temporal distribution. Alternatively
they may click on maps and stratigraphic columns to receive faunal lists for specific horizons.”
This website provides information on insects with emphasis on ants and links to photographs.
The pictures are great.
“Educational use of the images appearing on http://www.alexanderwild.com by teachers,
students, and researchers is free of license fees and is strongly encouraged. The image must be
attributed to Alex Wild, and online use must be accompanied by a link back to
http://www.alexanderwild.com.”
World register of marine species ‐ http://www.marinespecies.org/
“With WoRMS we aim to provide the most authoritative list of names of all marine species
globally, ever published.”
This website is a bit to advanced for elementary and middle school students, but the pictures
are great for all ages.
Imagebank ‐ http://www.bioscience.heacademy.ac.uk/imagebank/
“This resource consists of freely available images contributed by academics, researchers,
Learned Societies, industry and individuals with rights cleared for educational purposes.“
Wow, what a lot of great pictures.
Conservation of invertebrates and their habitat ‐ http://www.xerces.org/
“The Xerces Society is a nonprofit organization that protects wildlife through the conservation
of invertebrates and their habitat.”
“Butterflies, dragonflies, beetles, worms, starfish, mussels, and crabs are but a few of the
millions of invertebrates at the heart of a healthy environment. Invertebrates build the
stunning coral reefs of our oceans; they are essential to the reproduction of most flowering
plants, including many fruits, vegetables, and nuts; and they are food for birds, fish, and other
animals. Yet invertebrate populations are often imperiled by human activities and rarely
accounted for in mainstream conservation.”
World wildlife fund’s wildfinder ‐ http://www.xerces.org/
“The WildFinder application enables users to visualize global distribution data for literally
thousands of animal species using a variety of elegant base maps to provide geographic
context. Some of the key application functionality includes:
• The ability to search for wildlife by place (e.g. town name)
• The ability to search for wildlife by species name (common or scientific)
• The ability to search for wildlife by ecoregion
• Options to browse and print a variety of global diversity pattern maps”
Fish base ‐ http://fishbase.org/
I found this web‐site scary at first. The homepage is just writing and gives lots of options on
how to look up information. Don’t let it intimidate you, this site is full of great pictures and lots
of information. It contains 32000 Species, 291100 Common names, 50000 Pictures, and
45400 References.
The barn owl trust ‐ http://www.barnowltrust.org.uk/
If you are interested in barn owls this is the site for you. All kinds of information and pictures.
National Biological Information Infrastructure ‐
http://www.nbii.gov/portal/server.pt?open=512&objID=236&mode=2&cached=true
“The National Biological Information Infrastructure (NBII) is a broad, collaborative program to
provide increased access to data and information on the nation's biological resources. The NBII
links diverse, high‐quality biological databases, information products, and analytical tools
maintained by NBII partners and other contributors in government agencies, academic
institutions, non‐government organizations, and private industry.”
This site provides links to other interesting sites such as Butterflies and Moths of North America
(http://www.butterfliesandmoths.org/).
Moths and butterflies of Europe and North Africa ‐ http://www.leps.it/
“The aim of this work is to provide a large iconographic sample of European moths and
butterflies and, for each species, information about foodplants, breeding, life cycle.”
If you need pictures of butterflies or moths this is the place to go.
Myths, Misconceptions, and Superstitions About Spiders ‐
http://www.washington.edu/burkemuseum/spidermyth/
I really don’t care about any misconceptions, I hate spiders, but for those of you who are
interested this site debunks many common assumptions. It also provides links to other “spider”
sites.
Bioimages ‐ http://www.cas.vanderbilt.edu/bioimages/frame.htm
If pictures are what you want check this out. It is a little hard to figure out, but once you do the
pictures are amazing.