New York Nature Explorer

Resources for learning more about New York State's animals, plants and natural communities are listed here.

Birds:

• The 2nd NYS Breeding Bird Atlas Project.
• Lists of Birds for each Breeding Bird Atlas survey block, and Atlas maps for each species.

Reptiles and Amphibians:

• NYS Amphibian & Reptile Atlas Project (Herp Atlas), including lists of amphibians and reptiles in New York State, interim Herp Atlas maps, and fact sheets for some species.

Rare animals and plants in New York, including biology, identification, habitat, distribution, conservation, and management:

• New York Natural Heritage Program
• NY Natural Heritage's Conservation Guides (leaving DEC website)
• NYSDEC's Endangered Species fact sheets
• Federal Endangered Species, web site of U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service's New York Field Office (leaving DEC website)
• NatureServe Explorer (leaving DEC website)
• List of animals that are rare in New York and are included in NY Natural Heritage's Biodiversity Databases (click on Rare Animal List).
• List of plants that are rare in New York and are included in NY Natural Heritage's Biodiversity Databases, including phenology (click on New York Rare Plant Status List).
• List of animals listed by the State of New York as Endangered, Threatened, or Special Concern under authority of Article 11 of Environmental Conservation Law.
• New York State's regulations regarding Endangered and Threatened animal species, and Species of Special Concern.
• List of plants listed by the State of New York as Endangered, Threatened, or Rare under authority of Article 9 of Environmental Conservation Law, and New York State's regulations regarding protected native plants.

Natural Community types in New York, including identification, dominant and characteristic vegetation, distribution, conservation, and management:

• NY Natural Heritage's Conservation Guides (leaving DEC website).
• Descriptions of all community types (click on "DRAFT Ecological Communities of New York State").

Plants (all links leave the DEC website):

• New York Flora Atlas
• USDA's Plants Database

Biodiversity of New York (all links leave the DEC website):

• New York Biodiversity Research Institute (BRI)
• New York State Biodiversity Clearinghouse
• New York State Biodiversity Project
• The Nature Conservancy in New York

Biodiversity around the world (all links leave the DEC website):

• Center for Biodiversity and Conservation of the American Museum of Natural History
• Center for Applied Biodiversity Science of Conservation International
• Biodiversity Hotspots
• The Nature Conservancy
• U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service's Endangered Species Program
• IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature), including the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species

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