NatureServe
Published on 10 Mar 2007 at 4:45 am.
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Filed under Birds, Research, Wildlife.
The internet just keeps getting bigger. This last week, I stumbled across a new group called NatureServe that makes publicly available data about species distributions across the Western Hemisphere. NatureServe itself has information on over 65,000 species of plant and animal. You can download all sorts of information, such as Conservation Status, Distribution, Ecology and Life History, etc. Below is a distribution map of one of my favorite birds: the House Sparrow. Note that they don’t like the Amazon Jungle nor the Andes!
Their cousin site InfoNatura has information about all the species across Latin and South America. Together these two sites provide massive amounts of data to the public on all the plants and animals in the Western Hemisphere.
