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Downloadable publications include "Checklist of NYS Amphibians, Reptiles, Birds and Mammals, Including Their Legal Status"

New York Nature Explorer is an online tool for finding out about the animals, plants and habitats in your neighborhood or in your area of interest. Users may choose a county, town, or watershed, or they may specify their own location on a map. They will then receive a list of the animals, plants, and significant natural communities that have been found there, as documented in databases maintained by NYS DEC.

Includes statistics about NY bird species and a map showing variability in bird species richness across the state.

NY Times article about modeling bird migration using eBird citizen science data along with habitat variables

RegentsPrep.org is a regents review website with content on all 4 core science courses. Review questions are instantly scored and solutions provided based on the New York State Regents Exams. Content for other NY state regents exams is also available in the other core courses such as English, Math and Global History.

This will give you the maps (and all the other birds done in the survey) used in Activity 1: Introduction to Bird Population Trends. Although each link is for the 2000-2005 maps, once you get the bird map you want, there is a link above the map that will give you the 1980-1985 historical map as well.

Lessons and activities for a formal classroom setting. I heart NY fish - great activities on invasive species!

This article highlights some Citizen Science projects that you may want to get involved with personally and/or with your students. Links to websites are provided. There are all sorts of projects for monitoring organisms including but not limited to birds, frogs, fish, ladybugs, plants, even horseshoe crabs!

"CUGIR is an active online repository in the National Spatial Data Clearinghouse program. CUGIR provides geospatial data and metadata for New York State, with special emphasis on those natural features relevant to agriculture, ecology, natural resources, and human-environment interactions."

"A consortium has formed to develop, support and maintain an on-line, GIS-based, all-taxa invasive species mapping tool, iMapInvasives, focused on serving the needs of land managers, regional planners and others working to prevent, control or manage invasive species. A particular emphasis is placed on functionality designed to aid in Early Detection/Rapid Response (ED/RR) efforts. "

A good source for Ontario county base maps, aerial photos, and digital census information. Has the wetlands maps for Ontario County.

"an innovative online career exploration and planning system designed to make career exploration and planning fun and easy... students can choose an occupation & read the job description, interests it utilizes, skills required, education needed, average wages for entry level and senior level, and job outlook.

New York Nature Explorer is an online tool for finding out about the animals, plants and habitats in your neighborhood or area of interest. As a gateway to biodiversity information, it is intended for landowners, land managers, citizens, municipal officials, planners, consultants, project developers, researchers, students, and anyone else interested in the natural world. Nature Explorer currently contains information on birds, reptiles, amphibians, rare animals, rare plants, and significant natural communities.

Nature Explorer currently contains information on birds, reptiles, amphibians, rare animals, rare plants, and significant natural communities.

connection to New York? marcellus shale in Ithaca new york

The NBII Northeast Information Node (NIN) Web site gives users-educators, resource managers, researchers, and the general public-easy access to the data resources and analysis tools they need to better understand, utilize, and protect the environmental resources of this region.

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