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| Useful resources (HBRG can take no responsibility for external websites): | ||||||
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| Organisations: Top | ||||||
| Scottish: | ||||||
| Scottish Natural Heritage | The Scottish Executive's statutory advisor on the natural heritage - conservation, landscape, sustainable development and access. | |||||
| Scottish Wildlife Trust | Scotland's leading wildlife NGO. | |||||
| BRISC | Coordinates biological recording in Scotland. | |||||
| Hebridean Whale and Dolphin Trust | Records cetaceans and Basking Sharks in Scottish waters. | |||||
| UK/International: | ||||||
| JNCC | The UK Government's wildlife adviser, working on behalf of the three country nature conservation agencies. A site with many very useful resources. | |||||
| The British Mycological Society | Access to the fungus database and other resources. | |||||
| Botanical Society of the British Isles | A splendid site, with fabulous resources. | |||||
| BSBI Atlas | A direct link to the BSBI Atlas online. | |||||
| Plantlife | A charity working to protect Britain’s wild plants and the habitats in which they are found. | |||||
| The Conchological Society of GB and Ireland | Everything you would want to know about Molluscs. | |||||
| Royal Entomological Society | Plays a major role in disseminating information about insects. | |||||
| British Entomological and Natural History Society | Advances research in entomology with an emphasis on conservation. | |||||
| The Amateur Entomologists' Society | The UK's leading organisation for people interested in insects. | |||||
| Buglife | The trendy name for the Invertebrate Conservation Trust. | |||||
| British Dragonfly Society | All you would want to know about British Dragonflies. | |||||
| Butterfly Conservation | All you would want to know about British Butterflies. | |||||
| The Coleopterist | Website of the leading journal for students of the beetle fauna of the British Isles. | |||||
| The Malloch Society | A small society dedicated to the study of the Diptera. | |||||
| The Dipterists' Forum | Fosters understanding, appreciation and conservation of British two-winged flies. | |||||
| Bees, Wasps and Ants Recording Society | The place to go for information on the biology and conservation of all aculeates. | |||||
| Bumblebee Conservation Trust | Conservation and awareness-raising of bumblebees, established May 2006. | |||||
| Herpetological Conservation Trust | All about Amphibians and Reptiles, running the national recording scheme. | |||||
| Royal Society for the Protection of Birds | An organisation that is active in conservation of more than just birds. It is joint lead partner for the BAPs on B. distinguendus, Osmia uncinata and C. floralis. | |||||
| The Mammal Society | The Mammal Society website. | |||||
| Mammals Trust UK | Information, resources, surveys on UK mammals. | |||||
| Bat Conservation Trust | Information on British bats. | |||||
| Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust | The leading organisation saving wetlands for wildlife and people across the world. | |||||
| International Otter Survival Fund | Research, education and rehabilitation based on the Isle of Skye. | |||||
| Vincent Wildlife Trust | Research and conservation. | |||||
| Websites: Top | ||||||
| Plants: | ||||||
| Visual mushrooms | A very useful resource on fungi. | |||||
| Alan Silverside's Lichen Pages | An excellent site with lots of excellent photographs. | |||||
| Ferns in Britain and Ireland | Roger Golding's site dealing with ferns and their allies. | |||||
| British Wild Flowers | A site with splendid photographs, indexed by plant name. | |||||
| Wild Plants of the British Isles | More photographs, and not just of plants. | |||||
| Skye Botany | Lots of excellent pictures of plants on Skye by Carl Farmer. | |||||
| Invertebrates: | ||||||
| Diptera.info | A splendid resource and forum for all Diptera. | |||||
| Hoverfly Recording Scheme | Lots of resources on hoverflies. | |||||
| The Tachinid Recording Scheme | A resource for people who are interested in studying tachinid flies. | |||||
| HymAToL | Hymenoptera glossary and keys - an invaluable resource for hymenopterists. | |||||
| Antweb | A superb resource on ants of the world. | |||||
| Solitary bees | All about solitary bees. | |||||
| The Bombus Pages | On the Natural History Museum website concentrating on the taxonomy of bumblebees. | |||||
| The Bumblebee Pages | Laura Smith's site has masses of information on bumblebee biology. | |||||
| UK Ladybirds | The site for the UK Ladybird survey - lots of information about ladybirds. | |||||
| Harlequin Ladybird | Up to date information on the invasive Asian species in Britain. | |||||
| What's this caterpillar? | A wonderful site to identify British and European butterfly and moth caterpillars. | |||||
| UK Moths | Excellent pictures of British moths. | |||||
| European Lepidoptera | Based in Italy, but in English. Excellent pictures of UK and European species. | |||||
| ukleps.org | Very useful pictures of eggs, larvae, pupae and adults of British butterflies and moths. | |||||
| David Element's Wildlife pages | Excellent pictures including hoverflies and Conopids. | |||||
| Vertebrates: | ||||||
| UK Amphibians | All about UK Amphibians. | |||||
| NARRS | The National Amphibian and Reptile Recording Scheme aims to monitor all UK amphibians and reptiles. | |||||
| UK bird atlas scheme | Take part in the 2007-2011 national bird atlas scheme. | |||||
| British Trust for Ornithology Bird Atlases | On-screen maps of distribution of British birds (and access to the rest of the BTO site). | |||||
| BTO Birdtrack | Tracking and reporting migrant birds. | |||||
| The Virtual Bird | Listen to stereo .mp3 files of bird song - requires suitable sound software. Parent site has photos and other bird resources in English, Dutch, French and Finnish! | |||||
| Highland Red Squirrel Group | The local arm of the Red Squirrel UK BAP network. | |||||
| Scottish Badgers | Umbrella organisation for Scottish Badger groups. | |||||
| General: | ||||||
| NBN | The home page of the National Biodiversity Network. | |||||
| SearchNBN | Register with NBN, and search the NBN datasets. | |||||
| GBIF | The Global Biodiversity Information Facility - HBRG records contribute to this facility. | |||||
| SW Ross Field Club | The website of the South-west Ross Field Club | |||||
| Skye Birds | All about birds on Skye, including latest sightings. | |||||
| Garden Safari | Contains some excellent photographs. | |||||
| Orkney Biodiversity Project | The Orkney LBAP website. | |||||
| Highland Biodiversity Project | The Highland LBAP website. | |||||
| Highland Wildlife Foundation | Roy Dennis' wildlife website with a variety of features including Osprey migration tracking. | |||||
| Highland Naturalists | SNH project on naturalists of the Highlands & Islands, past and present. | |||||
| Bioimages | More excellent pictures. | |||||
| Omne Vivum | A good resource which is accessed by Latin names and links to Google. | |||||
| Books: Top | ||||||
| Benton, T. 2006. Bumblebees. Collins, London. ISBN 0 00 717451 9. | ||||||
| Dobson, F.S. 2000. Lichens. Richmond, Slough. ISBN 0 85546 094 6. | ||||||
| Foley, M.& Clarke, S. 2005. Orchids of the British Isles. Griffin Press and RBGE. ISBN 0 9541916 1 7. | ||||||
| Edwards, M.& Jenner, M. 2005. Field Guide to the Bumblebees of Great Britain and Ireland. Ocelli Ltd. ISBN 0 9549713 0 2. | ||||||
| Gilbert, F. 1986. Hoverflies. Naturalists' Handbooks 5. Richmond, Slough. | ||||||
| Gilbert, O. 2000. Lichens. HarperCollins, London. ISBN 0 00 220082 1. | ||||||
| Gilbert, O. 2004. Lichens. Scottish Natural Heritage, Redgorton. ISBN 1 85397 373 4. | ||||||
| Goulson, D. 2003. Bumblebees: their behaviour and ecology. OUP, Oxford. ISBN 0 19 852607 5. | ||||||
| Kirkland, P. 2006. Butterflies. Scottish Natural Heritage, Redgorton. ISBN 1 85397 446 8. | ||||||
| Macdonald, M. 2003. Bumblebees. Scottish Natural Heritage, Redgorton. ISBN 1 85397 364 5. | ||||||
| Macdonald, M. & Nisbet, G. 2006. Highland Bumblebees: Distribution, Ecology and Conservation. HBRG, Inverness. ISBN 0 9552211 0 2. | ||||||
| Prys-Jones, O. & Corbet, S.A. 1991. Bumblebees. Naturalists' Handbooks 6. Richmond, Slough. | ||||||
| Raynor, R. 2005. Conserving Scotland's Water Voles. Scottish Natural Heritage, published on line here. | ||||||
| Skinner, G. & Allen, G.W. 1996. Ants. Naturalists' Handbooks 24. Richmond, Slough. ISBN 0 85546 305 8. | ||||||
| Stewart, J., Barbour, D. & Moran, S. 1998. Highland Butterflies: a provisional Atlas. HBRG, Inverness. ISBN 1 87425 306 4. | ||||||
| Reid, J.B., Evans, P.G.H., & Northridge, S.P. 2003. Atlas of Cetacean distribution in north-west European waters. JNCC, Peterborough. A pdf file can be downloaded from the JNCC website. | ||||||
| Yeo, P.F. & Corbet, S.A. 1995. Solitary Wasps. Naturalists' Handbooks 3. Richmond, Slough. ISBN 0 85546 295 7. | ||||||
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| Vist Pemberley Natural History Books,18 Bathurst Walk, IVER, SL0 9AZ, England Tel: 01753 631114 Fax: 01753 631115. | ||||||
| Mail-order entomology from Pendleside Books, 359 Wheatley Lane Road, Fence, Burnley, BB12 9QA, UK. | ||||||
| Utilities: Top | ||||||
| Ordnance Survey maps online | Get a map based on a grid reference or postcode and derive NGRs from it. | |||||
| Tide tables | Tide times and heights for 7 days ahead. | |||||
| AA route finder | Routes and distances between any two points. | |||||
| DMAP | Mapping software which was used to create the maps in the site. | |||||
| pdf995 free software | Free downloads for converting any document to .pdf format through the File/Print command. | |||||
| Core ftp | Free easy-to-use software for uploading files to websites. | |||||
| Google Earth | An immensely useful resource of aerial photographs. Download the software from this site, and then explore. | |||||
| MS Virtual Earth | A similar site to Google Earth, with better resolution in some areas, but not allowing image save (you can still do a screen shot). Does not work with some non-IE browsers. | |||||
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Resources on external websites: Top | ||||||
| SOAC | The full text of the Scottish Outdoor Access Code (.pdf, 316kB) from the SNH website. | |||||
| Faune de France online | Downloadable .pdf files. In French, and you will need broadband as the files are large. | |||||
| Charles Darwin's works online | Full text and figures from all of Darwin's works, freely accessible. | |||||
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Scans of Yarrow's two classic taxonomic works on Formica ants as .pdf files from the Antweb site. Click to view in browser window, or right-click to save to local disc. | ||||||
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The new (June 2007) and revised list of UKBAP priority species as .pdf files. | ||||||
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