Hey y’all!
So I’ve got a huge passion and goal to create a comprehensive guide of the animals and plants (and maybe fungi someday) of the United States. I’m actually very far along with the plants including identification sections but I have to go back and touch it up before publishing. I’ve got links to a lot of animal sections below. I would love help from anyone with a passion for nature and field guides to work on this project.
I personally love the Inaturalist guides, especially the ability to have an explorable mini-map when looking at the “card” view on a browser. My overall vision is to have guides available for everyone with photos, range maps, and seasonality; as well as identification and information to help everyone identify each species. In the plants section I have also used the ‘Import Tags’ function to create tags for states or counties as applicable and hope to have the same for some of the animals below.
Feel free to send me a request to be added as an editor to these guides. I will shoot you over some general guidelines for consistency, but realistically the most important thing is just citing sources correctly. Also try to not make these available offline please for the sake of iNaturalist’s servers lol.
Mammals Pt.1 : https://www.inaturalist.org/guides/18661
Mammals Pt.2 : https://www.inaturalist.org/guides/18662
Birds Pt.1 : https://www.inaturalist.org/guides/18663
Birds Pt.2: https://www.inaturalist.org/guides/18665