http://www.cetacea.org/

Hosted by UK-based Vision Internet Services, Cetacea is a comprehensive and artful website providing background information for all known species of dolphin, whale, and porpoise. Site visitors can use the search engine or indices to locate cetacean species by common or scientific name. The information pages for individual species include photos and information regarding Classification, Description, Food & Feeding, and more. The site also provides links to sections on cetacean evolution, human influences on cetaceans, and information on whale watching around the world. Additional features include a Glossary, list of Links, and an FAQ section. [NL]

http://www.finchworld.com/

Finchworld was created by finch enthusiast Rick Fulmer as an extensive online source for information about finches. This website provides links to an abundance of articles, good-quality photos, illustrations, and other information for numerous finch varieties including the Zebra Finch, Cordon Bleu, Star Finch, American Goldfinch, and many more. The site also offers the Finchlover and Finch Breeder Directories allowing site visitors to search different countries, and states in the U.S. for fellow finch lovers and breeders. Additional subsections of the site include Finch Health Topics, Housing Finches for Captive Breeds, and FAQs. [NL]

http://www.drseward.com/

"A leading authority on captive propagation of the Gila monster, Heloderma suspectum," Dr. Mark Seward created this website to disseminate information about Gila monsters. The site links to various Natural History sub-sections including Morphology, Range, Food and Metabolism, and more. For those interested in learning about captive breeding of Gila Monsters, the site also includes information about Acquisition, Husbandry, and Reproduction. These subject areas contain sub-categories like Feeding, Handling, Mating, Hatching, and more. This site also includes Free Gila Monster Videos for download. [NL]

http://media.animal.discovery.com/fansites/janegoodall/janegoodall.html

Hosted by Animal Planet, this Jane Goodall-40 Years in Gombe multi-media website shares stories, high-quality video clips, and photographs about the experiences of Jane Goodall, the chimpanzees of Gombe, and other information. A special feature of the site is the On Location: From the Field videos that are sent in every other month from Bill Wallauer, who has been video-documenting Gombe chimps since 1992. Additionally, site visitors can learn about Jane Goodall's life through a brief biography with photos, view an interview with Jane Goodall, join the Discover Roots and Shoots online discussion, and more. This site also hosts an Earth Alert section, and even provides family trees with photos for selected chimpanzees. [NL]

http://www.spacefornature.co.uk/default.htm

This informative Space For Nature Wildlife Gardening Forum website was developed for naturalists, horticulturalists and others interested in creating garden habitats for wildlife. The site editor is Richard Burkmar, who received his PhD from University College of Cardiff in avian ecology, and believes "that gardens are an increasingly valuable habitat in real terms for wildlife, and that they are uniquely positioned, as accessible natural spaces, to influence our behaviour and attitudes towards the wider environment." The forum offers a wealth of information and incredible photos under the categories of Features, Diary, News, Links and Refs, and Galleries. Selected examples from these different categories include: Making a Nest Box for Hole Nesting Birds, Natural Gardening in Small Spaces, New Sisken Gallery, and many more. The website invites anyone with relevant stories or pictures to contribute. [NL]

http://www.wildflower2.org/NPIN/Gallery/Gallery.html

An excellent, very well-organized resource, this Image Gallery website was created by the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center -- Native Plant Information Network (last reported on in the NSDL Scout Report for the Life Sciences May 17, 2002). The Image Gallery hosts "a collection of over 15,500 plant images representing 176 Plant Families and 4,443 individual species." Site users can search for images by Scientific or Common Name, or by pull-down menus for Plant Family, Photographer, and Region among others. Individual plant species pages provide extensive information about the image and species including Common Name, Geographic Status, State, Year Taken and more. The site also provides links to the Image Use Policy and the Image Request Form as well as information about how to contribute images. [NL]

http://www.ultimateungulate.com/index.html

A very nicely-crafted website, The Ultimate Ungulate Page: Your Guide to the World's Hoofed Mammals was created by ungulate enthusiast Brent Huffman to provide the internet community with a reliable source for information, images, and links for the world's ungulates. The website contains introductory pages for the different ungulate orders including pictures, distribution maps, diagnostic characteristics, and literature cited. Each order page also provides a species list with links to individual species pages. The separate species pages contain great photos and information about ontogeny and reproduction, behavior, taxonomic classification, and more. The site links to a Glossary, Guestbook, and site guide as well. [NL]