Identify mammals of North America with quality photos, in-depth descriptions, mammal sounds, sketches of scat and tracks, range maps and more. Advanced search functions in this essential guide allow you to search mammals by shape, color, habitat, region or size.
In-depth descriptions of over 720 butterflies and 760 birds found in North America. Over 6,000 color photographs detailing each species. A detailed reference section, which includes searching many parts of a butterfly. A library of over 2,300 bird songs and calls. With new search features, now you can identify birds by wing shape, locomotion, song type, song pattern, and likelihood by month, within state and province.
Includes 771 species and contains the most complete species descriptions updated to the latest AOU checklist, with extensive details on behavior, habitat, life history, nesting times, number of eggs, nest location, bird family info, similar species, find a bird by shape, and family.
Identify 716 North American trees. Whether on the trail or in your backyard this app will help you ID leaves, bark, cones, needles, fruits, flowers, and more. Get up-to-date and authroitative species information, brilliant color photos, detailed rangemaps, habitat information on hundreds of cedars, maples, oaks, pines and others.
This app will enhance accurate and timely reporting of stranded marine mammals in the Southeastern U.S.
This app invites you to visit and learn about our planet's terrestrial landscapes, oceans and seas, frozen ice caps, atmosphere and clouds, geologic terrains, topography, nautical charts, natural hazards, human impacts, and many other earth and environmental science topics as you travel and explore with your finger.
This is a national web-based mapping system for documenting invasive species distribituion. Does not require GIS experience.
Learn the condition of local stream, lakes, and other water anywhere in the U.S. See if your local waterway was checked for pollution, what was found, and what is being done.
This is an USGS Web application where you can view aerial photographs and help classify them. USGS is looking for online volunteers to classify photos taken before and after Hurricane Sandy, and particularly targeting people with different kinds of coastal expertise, disaster skills, and volunteer interests.
This mobile app is used to identify and Report Invasive Animals and Plants in Florida. IveGot1 is an integrated invasive species reporting and outreach campaign for Florida that includes the app, a website with direct access to invasive species reporting and a hotline 1-888-IVEGOT1 for instant reports of live animals.
Leafsnap is the first in a series of electronic field guides being developed by researchers from Columbia University, the University of Maryland, and the Smithsonian Institution. This free mobile app uses visual recognition software to help identify tree species from photographs of their leaves.
The Marine Beach Sanitary Survey App is based on the routine marine beach sanitary survey form. This survey provides managers of marine beaches with a technically sound and consistent approach to identify pollution sources and share information. To use the app to complete the routine marine sanitary survey form, EPA provides two options for viewing the survey with your tablets.
Enables users to both provide data on debris in local waterways and coastlines and see data entered by others.
This app is used to document invasive plant occurrences in the mid-Atlantic region for the purposes of early detection, improved management and better coordination. The current focus is on invasive plants, but additional invasive insects and diseases have been included in this app. The region includes Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia and the District of Columbia.
This app provides a means of reporting new sightings of select invasive species. MRWC-EDDMapS focuses on species that are new or potential new invaders to the seven Coalition states (Colorado, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming, and Kansas), as well as five other western states (Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Nevada, and Utah).
Designed for the general public and applicators who need to access pesticide labels on mobile devices, this app complements EPA's computer-based Pesticide Product Label System. Users can search for pesticide products by name, use site, type of pest, EPA Registration Number, registrant, or by using a combination of these search terms.
Learn all about North American fungi in Audubon Mushrooms. Our mobile app highlights each species with stunning photography and extensive descriptions. Identify mushrooms and fungi using the advanced search function, with fields including shape, cap shape, cap texture, color, gill stalk attachment, habitat, month, region, size, spore bearing surface, stalk cap attachment and stalk shape.
Identify Trees by a series of 15 questions and answers or by structure View over 1500 full color digital images of each trees leaf/needle, bark, fruit or profile. Browse all species by Genus. View range maps for each tree. Consult scientific drawings for comparison of a trees leaf/needle. Full in depth descriptions of leaf/needle measurements, shapes, fruit and bark.
Insect repellents can help reduce your risk of getting a disease caused by mosquitoes or ticks. Repellents can be used when you are planning to be outdoors, whether you are within the United States or traveling in another country. This mobile website to allows you find protection times for various mosquito and tick repellents.
This app helps you discover the places where you can experience the Bay region's beauty, history, and heritage firsthand. Find and visit places by activity, trail name, or type of site.
Through this app, users can purchase and download professionally created Forest Service maps that are stored on their devices. They can use the maps based on their location when GPS is available. The maps also will allow users to measure distance and area, find coordinates, open a current view in Google maps, plot place marks, add notes, enter their own data and add photos as attributes. Almost 700 Forest Service maps are available through the app. The app works on iPhones (3GS or newer) and iPads with WiFi+3G. It also works with Android 4 or newer operating systems on devices with at least 1 gigabyte of memory.
Designed for the general public as they search for pest control solutions, this app brings together product search functions and new pest control information in an easy-to-understand format. Users can find ways to control pests without pesticides using a strategy called integrated pest management (IPM). They can also view product formulations, ingredients, signal words, and pests controlled.
Designed for one-click dialing! Users can find contact information on pest control, reporting pesticide incidents, applicator licensing, pesticide disposal, and much more.
This app provides an extensive electronic species ID guide complete with information on biology, habitat (including maps), conservation, as well as guidelines for viewing marine mammals in the wild. The app includes illustrations and photos for over 40 marine mammal species found in the Southeast U.S.
This mobile app provides GPS based, real-time access to USDA-NRCS soil survey data, formatted for mobile devices. This application retrieves graphical summaries of soil types associated with the user's current geographic location. Images are linked to detailed information on the named soils. The app is available for iPhone and Android users, and Google Maps and Google Earth also interface with this application.
This app is used to report sightings of invasive plants and other invasive pests in the Southeastern U.S., to better assess the extent of infestations and hopefully eradicate new infestations before they become huge problems (such as kudzu).
A guide to the most common North American and European trees on your iPhone and iPad.
Virginia Tech Tree Identification brings the award winning Virginia Tech digital dendrology material to your
iPhone or
Android smart phone. It contains fact sheets for 969 woody plants from all over North America with an in depth description, range map and thousands of color images of leaves, flowers, fruit, twigs, bark and form. Users can narrow the species list for any location in North America using the phone's GPS, network signal or any entered address or zip code. The list can be further filtered by keyword or tree attribute.
This Arbor Day app provides a step-by-step approach to identify more than 250 trees in the U.S. and Canada.