Director, Environmental Studies
Professor of English

Web sources for bioregional species descriptions

*=especially useful

*WDNR profiles of “Species of Greatest Conservation Need”
>> for animals gives ecological landscape and natural community associations, and conservation status
>> for plants gives natural community (habitat) associations and phenology

*WDNR factsheets on various species (see list on left)

WDNR: Non-game Animals, Plants, & Natural Communities

WDNR Links to information about wildlife

enature: Audubon electronic Field Guides for various animals (throughout North America)

Checklist of Wisconsin vertebrates

*Checklist of Wisconsin Birds ( DNR)
>> Gives habitat type, seasonal distribution, status, and breeding region (although habitat & bioregion don’t match the ones used in this class)

Checklist of Wisconsin Birds (Wisconsin Ornithological Society)

Bird checklists for several locations (Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center, USGS)

* Wisconsin Botanical Information Service: Vascular Plant Species Search
>> type in name and enter
>> click on species name in blue
>> This gives what habitat (natural community) the plant is found in, as well as counties.

Wisconsin Breeding Bird Atlas (UWGB)
>> / (check under “results” – top of page)

List of breeding birds by county:

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