~ Early Web Links ~

Xeno-canto is a massive community-driven database of wildlife sound recordings from around the world, covering birds, frogs, mammals, bats, and more, browsable by region or taxonomy. Launched in 2005, it serves researchers, birders, and curious listeners alike with tens of thousands of freely downloadable recordings backed by an open API and active community forum.

The Desert Springs Action Committee (DSAC) is a volunteer group dedicated to hands-on aquatic conservation and education, focusing on desert fish habitats in Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge, Death Valley National Park, and Devils Hole. The site also features TKphotos digital image collections covering desert springs, aquarium fish, and regional wildlife.

A hypertext edition of Mrs. M. Grieve's landmark 1931 reference work 'A Modern Herbal,' covering medicinal, culinary, cosmetic, and economic properties of over 800 herbs and plants. The site includes alphabetical plant indexes, a recipes index, a poisons index, and supplementary reference tools like conversion tables and a medical dictionary.

The TalkOrigins Archive is a comprehensive collection of articles, essays, and FAQs dedicated to presenting mainstream scientific responses to creationism, intelligent design, and evolution denial. Drawing from the long-running talk.origins Usenet newsgroup, it covers topics ranging from evolutionary biology and geology to abiogenesis, cosmology, and the age of the Earth.

The archived web presence of the Raffles Museum of Biodiversity Research (RMBR) at the National University of Singapore, now preserved after the museum was renamed and relocated as the Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum in 2014. Visitors can explore decades of biodiversity research, newsletters, symposium records, and an extensive 19th-century fauna of Singapore catalog with over 1,700 taxonomic entries.

Created by ichthyologist M.K. Oliver, this comprehensive reference site documents every cichlid fish species found in Lake Malawi, Africa, with scientifically accurate descriptions, photographs, and taxonomic data going back to 1997. Visitors can browse species alphabetically, by color pattern, or through picture galleries, and also find FAQs, a quiz, trophic adaptation guides, a bibliography, and maps covering this remarkable rift lake ecosystem.

Dendroica is a long-running nature blog with hundreds of posts spanning years of birding, moth-watching, and wildlife observation, named after a genus of wood-warblers. The archive stretches back many years with consistent weekly updates including a recurring 'Loose Feathers' series, and the blogroll connects to a rich community of birding and entomology blogs.

Bogleech is Jonathan Wojcik's long-running labor of love covering creature design reviews, bizarre biology, weird fiction, and year-round Halloween horror since 2001. Visitors will find deep-dive reviews of Pokemon and Digimon monsters, original tabletop RPG content including the Mortasheen bestiary, Halloween finds, and a sprawling archive of creature-focused writing spanning decades.

Bill Standley's curated directory of internet resources for wildlife ecologists, organized into categories covering federal and state organizations, professional and non-profit groups, universities, and taxa such as mammals, birds, amphibians, and reptiles. The site also indexes resources for endangered species, fisheries, aquatic ecology, jobs, and wildlife-related products like telemetry equipment and optics.

Curated by the University of Washington Libraries Special Collections Division, this digital archive spans 1890 to 1961 and brings together photographs, documents, and original materials tracing the history of salmon fishing and the roots of the Pacific Northwest salmon crisis. Visitors can browse topics ranging from Native American fishing practices and salmon canneries to hatcheries and the Columbia River salmon industry.