Biology is my lifelong love and undergrad degree. I'm also particularly fond of Australia and the American mid/west. Someday I'll move to the antipodes and farm potoroos, but in the meantime I'm a freelance scientific illustrator based in California [My profile pic sea-kangaroo though is courtesy of @cinnamon325!]. I've learned a lot of cool stuff and met a lot of cool people through iNaturalist. If you want travel tips somewhere I've been or are a scientist/researcher/otherwise contributing to conservation or human knowledge and I can assist in some way, please drop me a line and I will be delighted to provide whatever data or help I can.

For underwater photography I'm currently using a Sony RX100 in a Fantasea housing with an Inon S2000 strobe. Or just an old bare Olympus TG4. For land/intertidal macro I use a Panasonic G9 with an Olympus m.zuiko 60mm F2.8 lens and a Godox TT350 external flash. I like all of these lines a lot and recommend them.

Some favorite identification sources (and always looking for more if anyone has recommendations):

[within sections they're organized in the order: general/multiple - mammals - birds - herps - bugs - fish - other inverts - plants - fungus]

*General

• lots of mollusk ID resources linked on thomaseverest's profile
• IDing flies to Family
• aphids by host plant
• Very helpful tips for photographing mollusks on susanhewitt's profile, and some examples of good snail photos showing multiple views.
• Tips for photographing/IDing mosses in erikamitchell's comments
• photographing Bush-mallows for identification
• photographing crayfish for identifcation

*United States & Canada

• A Field Guide to Insects & Diseases of California Oaks (pdf)
• Peterson Field Guide to Mammals [North America]
• Princeton Mammals of North America
• The Sibley Guide to Birds [North America]
• US Feather Atlas
• California Herps
• Freshwater Gastropods of North America [East of the Mississippi]
• Photo ID for Flies of US/Canada by @edanko & @zdanko
• Caterpillars of the Eastern United States (Wagner)
• Dragonflies of the Greater Southwest
• Common Dragonflies of California: A Beginner's Pocket Guide (@kathy-claypole-biggs) & accompanying website
• Praying Mantises of the United States and Canada (Anderson) & accompanying website
• BugGuide (insects, spiders, & all that creeps)
• Crabs and Shrimps of the Pacific Coast (Jensen [@crabsandshrimps])
• Plant Galls of California and Other Western States (Russo)
• Gallformers: gallmakers & host plants of the US & Canada
• USDA Plants Database
• The Jepson eFlora (dichotomous key to all California plants)
• CalFlora (California plants)
• Conifers of the Pacific Slope: A field guide to the conifers of California, Oregon, and Washington (Kauffman)
• Field Guide to Manzanitas: California, North America, and Mexico (Kauffman, Parker, Vasey)
• Conifers of California online key
• California Moss online key

*Caribbean

• The Online Guide to the Animals of Trinidad and Tobago
• Birds of the West Indies (Raffaele, Wiley, Garrido, & Keith)
• Reef Fish Identification: Florida Caribbean Bahamas (Humann & DeLoach)
• Reef Creature Identification: Florida Caribbean Bahamas (Humann & DeLoach)
• Reef Coral Identification: Florida Caribbean Bahamas (Humann & DeLoach)

*Hawai'i specifically

• Hawaii's Birds (Hawaii Audubon Society)
• Hawaiian Insects
• The Ultimate Guide to Hawai'ian Reef Fishes (Hoover)
• Hawai'i's Sea Creatures (Hoover)
• Hawaiian Polyclad Flatworms (also contains updates for the above two books)
• Sea Slugs of Hawai'i
• Marine Algae of Hawai'i

*other tropical Pacific islands (including general area references that cover Hawai'i)

• Birds & Bats of Palau (Pratt & Etpison)
• The Birds of Hawai'i and the Tropical Pacific (Pratt, Bruner, & Berrett)
• Fiji Reef Fish (Rosenstein (@maractwin])
• Reptiles and Amphibians of the Pacific Islands (Zug)
• Reef Fish ID: Tropical Pacific (Humann & DeLoach)
• Reef Creature ID: Tropical Pacific (Humann & DeLoach)

*Australia

• Mammals of Australia (Strahan)
• Field Companion to Mammals of Australia (Van Dyck, Gynther, & Baker)
• The Field Guide to the Birds of Australia (Pizzey & Knight)
• A Complete Guide to Reptiles of Australia (Wilson & Swan)
• Brisbane Insects and Spiders
• Insects of Tasmania
• Sydney-area Butterflies & Caterpillars
• Interactive Australian Dragonfly Identification Key
• Key to Australian Myrmecia [large ant] Species
• Fishes of Australia
• Reef Fish ID: Tropical Pacific (Humann & DeLoach)
• Reef Creature ID: Tropical Pacific (Humann & DeLoach)
• Estuarine Shore Crabs of New South Wales (pdf)
• Ocean Shore Crabs of New South Wales (pdf)
• The Seashells of NSW
• Weeds in Australia
• FloraBase: Western Australian Flora
• PlantNET: NSW FloraOnline
• Key to Tasmanian Vascular Plants
• Victorian Drosera and Utricularia
• Field Guide to the Mangroves of Queensland (pdf)
• Australian Rainforest Fruits: A Field Guide (Cooper)
• numerous Fungimap publications for many regions of Australia

*New Zealand

• Hand Guide to the Birds of New Zealand (Robertson, Heather, & Onley)
• NZ Birds Online
• NZ Bumblebees
• NZ Butterfly
• Splendid Sponges of New Zealand (pdf)
• Coastal Crabs of NZ (pdf)
• Bountiful Bryozoans (pdf)
• Flora of New Zealand

*Europe

• Collins/Princeton Birds of Europe (Svensson, Mullarney, & Zetterstrom)
• Britain's Plant Galls (Chinery)
• Botanical Society of the British Isles: Find Wild Flowers
• A Field Guide to the British Seaweeds (pdf)

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