Koh Chang Nature – Species Identification Sources
So you’ve got a great Koh Chang wildlife photo. Great. If you can let us have it to add to our species listings then that’s brilliant. But if you can tell us what it is too that’s perfect. The biggest task of this project is doing proper and precise species identification. We’re having some great successes, largely through the huge efforts of David Vinot, to whom my thanks go again. But if you can help out and send us identification as well then that would be brilliant.
In the course of this research we’ve unearthed some excellent sources of animal images to use to compare and identify species. There’s some amazing stuff out there and it is fascinating just looking through some of the sites. So here below we provide a list of good animal identification sources. We’ll keep adding to it as we find more sources.
What we’re looking for is the Latin name. Often animals have several popular names but just one latin name – if we can get to that then it is a precise identification.
Animal Identification Sites
www.eol.org
The Encyclopedia of Life is an effort to identify and record all species of life on earth is is a massive project tosay the least. Their first version listing a staggering 1.8 million species is here.
www.ecologyasia.com
A Singapore based labour of love from Tim Baker. This site has some wonderful animal photos covering everything except for insects (I can kind of see why he left out insects – there’s just too many)
www.pbase.com
Pieter C. Brouwer has assembled an impressive gallery of Thai butterflies and moths, isects and spiders and also other animals all identified by Latin name.
entnemdept.ufl.edu/creatures/
The University of Florida has assembled a large database of Insects and other crawly stuff.
bangkokherps.wordpress.com/
A site prepared by an enthusiastic Bangkok herpetologist (that’s an expert on reptiles and amphibians).
www.siam-info.com/english/venomous_animals.html
This site on all of Thailand’s venomous animals is a fascinating if sometimes disconcerting read. There are all kinds of snakes, spiders, scorpions and marine animals covered. Prepared by Manfred W. A. Jung.
www.birdfinders.co.uk
This site has a good collection of Thailand birds photographed and identified by Peter Basterfield.
thingsthatliveinthailand.blogspot.fi/
A nice blog from Dennis Farrell collecting photos and info on things that live in Thailand.
www.thaibugs.com
The URL kind of gives it away. Al kinds of Thai Insects identified.
www.learnaboutbutterflies.com
A useful resource for identifying butterflies.
www.insectidentification.org
Insect identification for the casual observer. That’s us – great.
www.archnoboards.com
Good for spiders and other arachnids.
http://www.pbase.com/glazemaker/thaivlinder
https://www.flickr.com/photos/33398884@N03
http://www.treknature.com/themes.php?thid=2256
http://www.pbase.com/peterericsson/birds_of_thailand
http://www.farangsgonewild.com/lepidoptera—caterpillars.html
http://www.discoverlife.org/mp/20q?guide=Caterpillars
http://markeisingbirding.nl/Asia.asp
https://www.flickr.com/groups/1682186@N25/pool/
http://www.pbase.com/cokesmith/reptiles_and_amphibians_of_thailand
http://www.farangsgonewild.com/mantodea—mantids–phasmatodea—stick-insects.html
http://thaiodonata.blogspot.fi
http://www.gondwanareptileproductions.com/Krabi%20thailand.html
http://brucekekule.com/journal_entries/spiders-the-ultimate-predator/
Identified an animal? Found a good ID site? Let us know below please!
