Resources for Inventorying & Monitoring Wildlife on Your Property

Learning About Your Land: Inventorying & Monitoring Wildlife on Your Property – August 11, 2020 [Recording

Landowner’s Guide to Inventorying & Monitoring in New Hampshire (2004)

Mapping 

• GRANITView 

Vegetation 

• Go Botany

• Northern Forest Atlas

Wildlife Track & Sign

• Mammal Tracks & Sign: A Guide to North American Species [Book], by Mark Elbroch 

• Bird Tracks & Sign: A Guide to North American Species [Book], by Mark Elbroch and Eleanor Marks 

• Tracks and Sign of Insects and Other Invertebrates: A Guide to North American Species [Book], by Charley Eiseman and Noah Charney 

• Local Tracks of North America (Laminated Fold-Out Guide), available for purchase via Acorn Naturalists and other vendors 

• Pocket Guide to NH Animal Tracks

Reptiles & Amphibians 

• SPARCnet (Salamander Population Adaptation Research Collaboration Network)

• FrogWatch USA

• NH Fish & Game – Frogs in New Hampshire (includes species profiles with audio clips)

• NH Fish & Game Frog Survey Information

Birds 

• General Bird Watching Tips

• NH Fish and Game - Owls of New Hampshire

• Counting birds

• NH Bird List

• New Hampshire eBird

• Nestwatch

• Feederwatch

• NHFG Turkey Flock Surveys (winter)

• NHFG Turkey Brood Surveys (summer)

Insects 

• Bees of New England

• Light trapping for moths

Citizen Science Projects 

• INaturalist

• eBird

• eButterfly

• NH Fish & Game Wildlife Sightings

Additional Resources

• List of  Species Occurring in New Hampshire

• New England Wildlife [Book] by Richard Degraaf & Mariko Yamasaki

• Habitat Stewardship Brochures from UNH Cooperative Extension

• NH WIldlife Action Plan Species Profiles (with distribution maps)

• NH Coverts Project