Links to more information, video and audio involving wildlife. These are some of my favorite websites.
- Garden for Wildlife: Making Wildlife Habitat at Home
- Would you like to attract wildlife by gardening to create habitat and food sources? This National Wildlife Federation website can get you started and show you how to create a certified wildlife habitat on your property.
- The Music of Nature.
- Wonderful wildlife sounds by the well-known wildlife recordist Lang Elliot of The Stokes Field Guide to Bird Songs fame. He has recently been making selections from his vast collection of wildlife sounds available through this online store.
- Songs of Insects
- This collection of audio on insects is great. You may recognize many songs and can learn the identity of what you have been hearing all this time.
- Hummingbird Migration Map
- This site has a map that tracks hummingbird sightings every year so you can see how they are migrating and when they arrive in your area. It is linked here because the map is a nice one, I can't say I know anything about the birdfood company hosting it. Give the map a few seconds to load.
- The Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles
- This link to an email Herpetology Hotline will put you in contact with experts who can try to answer your questions. Answers returned within 2 weeks.
- Common butterflies and moths seen in Connecticut
- Common butterflies and moths seen in Connecticut
- PDF checkist of butterflies of Connecticut
- A checklist of Connecticut butterfly species
- New England butterflies
- Butterflies of New England. List of butterflies, some with links to images and more info
- About Butterfly Gardens
- A website about butterfly gardens and butterflies. This link was suggested by a group of CT schoolchildren.
- Connecticut Moths
- Images and info on moths of Connecticut
- BugGuide
- All about insects in the US and Canada. You can send in a photo to request an identification under the ID Request tab.
- The Connecticut Ornithological Association
- Birding events in Connecticut, photos of rare birds seen, a blog, archived PDFs of their journal The Connecticut Warbler, Connecticut species checklists, and birder's species lists.
- A Beginners Guide to Bird Watching
- Just as the title describes. This link was suggested by a CT Girl Scout troop learning about birds.