LibGuides: Animal Project: Open Web

Pro Tips

site:edu

site: gov

If your animal doesn't live in the United States, you may want to search for information about your animal in domains from the animal's geographic location. Here's a list of country codes.

For example, if you want to find information from Brazil about the Hyacinth Macaw, set up your search like this:

site:BR "hyacinth macaw"

All Animals

Animal Diversity Web
Animal Diversity Web (ADW) is an online database of animal natural history, distribution, classification, and conservation biology at the University of Michigan
Tree of Life
The Tree of Life Web Project is a collection of information about biodiversity compiled collaboratively by hundreds of expert and amateur contributors. Its goal is to contain a page with pictures, text, and other information for every species and for each group of organisms, living or extinct.
Encyclopedia of Life
Science Daily
News about the latest research science.
TimeTree
TimeTree is a public knowledge-base for information on the evolutionary timescale of life. Data from thousands of published studies are assembled into a searchable tree of life scaled to time.
PubMed
PubMed comprises more than 27 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full-text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites.
Catalogue of Life
The Catalogue of Life is a index of species. It consists of a single integrated species checklist and taxonomic hierarchy. The Catalogue holds essential information on the names, relationships and distributions of over 1.6 million species. This figure continues to rise as information is compiled from diverse sources around the world.

Birds

Cornell Lab of Ornithology
Bird Lab Browse by Shape
Click here to find a bird partner!
Audubon
BIRDNET
BIRDNET is an online repository of information about the science of ornithology, and about issues of interest to ornithologists.

The site is intended to provide information to professional ornithologists, and to members of the general public interested in learning more about both the scientific study of birds and the application of information from that study to conservation and other problems affecting or associated with birds.
American Museum of Natural History: Ornithology
Prof. Ritchison: Avian Biology
Point Blue Conservation Science

Cornell Lab of Ornithology: Birds of the World This link opens in a new window
username: BishopOD
password: Birds4Dragons!

Insects

Fish

Amphibians & Reptiles

California Academy of Sciences: Herpetology
Herpetological Conservation and Biology
American Museum of Natural History: Herpetology
Amphibian Survival Alliance Publications
The Amphibian Survival Alliance is the world’s largest collaborative effort dedicated to amphibian conservation, research and education. The Alliance has excellent publications which cover your Animal Project information needs.
Lizard Digestion