Cougars in The Maritimes - http://www.outdoorns.com/features/cougar.htm
Outdoor Nova Scotia has the latest information on one of the true mysteries of the eastern forests - the mountain lion. Seven pages of stories about cougar sightings. |
Department of Natural Resources - Wildlife Division - http://www.gov.ns.ca/natr/wildlife/
Aims at conservation and sustainable use of wildlife populations, habitats and ecosystems. An encyclopedic list of information and a library of articles from the Harlequin duck to the Blue spotted salamander. An enormous site. |
East Coast Birds - http://museum.gov.ns.ca/mnh/nature/nsbirds/index.htm
Take a jaunt down to Robie Tufts' Birds of Nova Scotia for hundreds of descriptions and illustrations. Includes hot bird topics, and information on birding in the Maritimes. |
Electronic Resources on Lepidoptera - http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/Environment/NHR/lepidoptera.html
Offers information on butterflies and moths and a list of information resources. |
Leatherback Turtle Working Group - http://www.seaturtle.ca
Fishermen and university biologists collaborate on marine turtle research and conservation. Learn about sea turtles and track a leatherback turtle through the Atlantic Ocean. |
MARS - Marine Animal Response Society - http://www.marineanimals.ca/
A charitable organization dedicated to marine mammal conservation in the Maritime provinces through education, research and rescue. |
Nova Scotia Herpetofaunal Atlas Project - http://landscape.acadiau.ca/herpatlas/
Seeks to know where, what and how many snakes and amphibians there are in the province. Contains information, identification guides, atlases, databases, newsletters and a photo gallery. |
Nova Scotia Snakes - http://museum.gov.ns.ca/mnh/nature/snakes/
Images and information about the five native species. |
The Butterflies of Nova Scotia - http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/~aa095/NSLeps/
This scholarly site catalogues the lepidoptera of the province, providing pictures where available. The visitor may look up a species by characteristics checklist, an alphabetic index, or just browse. |
Thousand Eyes - https://www.thousandeyes.ca/
A volunteer project that observes and records natural history events such as plants flowering, birds returning, frogs peeping, and weather events. Offers field guide, graphs, maps, volunteering and a rationale for the project. |
Wildlife Index - http://www.ns.ec.gc.ca/wildlife/index.html
Informs us of the Atlantic Cooperative Wildlife Ecology Network, weather, pollution, migratory birds, endangered species, smuggling, wetlands, hunting and response to oil spills. |
Wildlife of Nova Scotia - http://www.gov.ns.ca/natr/WILDLIFE/wns/wns0.htm
The text of Julie Towers' book Wildlife of Nova Scotia, a scholarly publication for naturalists. It provides access to most of the book's contents except illustrations and tables. |