What in the world is it ?

I love taking pictures of flowers , trees and most all kinds of lifeforms . When I post my pictures , I do like to be able to present the correct name . But I don't have a lot of formal education on theese matters . So I search and search the web to identify what my camera has caught . It can be very time-consuming . This is a list of some of the places I go to find help. Some of the people that run theese sites are just happy amateurs ,like me , some are highly educated , and others are run by organisations , libraries or botanical gardens . Maybe someone out there will find this helpful . 


WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species  International organisation 
 
EOL  -  Encyclopedia of life  Run by several museums and organisations 

MushroomExpert.Com  Run by Michael Kuo 

Kristins flora  Norwegian site run by Kristin Vigander  

nhmbgoslo.gardenexplorer.org  Run by UiO , The University in Oslo , Botanical gardens  English, french and dutch  

Livlighave.dk  Danish site run by Jesper Lund  A nice gallery , mostly of invertebrates 

Artsdatabanken.no  Norwegian site run by government . English translation

Norsk Zoologisk Forening Sørlandsavdelingen  Norwegian site , no translation , but long list of links 

Tom Volk's fungi  Professor of biology

first-nature.com  Run by Pat O'Reilly and his wife Sue Parker , many great links 

iNaturalist.org    a Citizen science site started in 2008 by Nate Agrin , Jessica Kline and Ken-itchi Ueda . In 2017 they became a joint initiative between National Geographic Society and California Academy of Sciences . Available in : Albanian, Arabic, Basque, Breton, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese, Czech, English, Estonian, Danish, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Greek, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Luxembourgish, Macedonian, Occitan, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish
They aim to help children and families learn about nature . Billed as "kid-safe" and "family-friendly" . 

 
 And of course my favorite place PlantIdentification here on DA    

With a little help from my friends ,   more websites to identify the plants and creatures we love to "shoot" 

Plntnet Identify  also called       identify.plantnet-project.org    This is an app to help identify as well as a citizen science project 

www.nederlandsesoorten.nl          A register of all sorts of life in Netherlands

gardensafari.net                          All sorts of living creatures you can expect to find in your house and garden    

bugguide.net                               All sorts of bugs

ednieuw.home.xs4all.nl                Spiders 

www.discoverlife.org                    All kinds of life 

gardenswithwings.com                 Butterflies and caterpillars