Help:Information resources

From WikiBird

Here's some resources for license compatible bird information.

Wikipedia

• Wikipedia Birds
  • Same license, GNU FDL
  • List of birds
• Public domain resources

U.S. Geological Survey

• Patuxent Bird Identification InfoCenter
  • Range maps
    • CBC
    • BBS
    • Alaska
    • Maryland and Delware, gray, color
  • Public domain except where noted, photographs, sound files
  • Also the bird sizes are referenced from another source so are probably not useful.
  • Some downloads, and more here or here
  • Bird Glossary

Open Clip Art Library]

• Creative Commons - No Rights Reserved

Others

• Line Art from the US Fish & Wildlife. more here
• Open Directory Project
• Public Domain images
• Clipart

Sounds

• USFS sound clips

Measurement conversions

• Online Conversion

Bird Images

• 1905 paintings http://www.biologie.uni-hamburg.de/b-online/birds/regengl.htm
• Online copy of "Citizen Bird" containing drawings of about a hundred bird species
• Online copy of Fifty Birds of Town and City, published by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
• US Fish and Wildlife Service Digital Library System http://images.fws.gov/default.cfm?fuseaction=records.searchresults&sb=Birds
• Digimages naturalistes The site states you may use these pictures, just quote the author (Alain Fossé) http://www.digimages.info/

Maps

• US Census Bureau's Tiger Map Server Browser