General Plant and Animal Information

Statewide List of Plants

• Special Plants List
• Endangered, Threatened and Rare Plants List

Statewide List of Animal Species

• Special Animals List
• Endangered and Threatened Animals List
• Fully Protected Animals List

Game Species

Exotic Animals Species List

General Information

• California Natural Diversity Database
• California Wildlife Habitat Relationships Program
• NatureServe Explorer
• National Biological Information Infrastructure
• UC Berkeley Museum of Vertebrate Zoology

Plants

• General Plant Information
  • University and Jepson Herbaria, University of California
  • California Native Plant Society
  • CNPS Inventory 2000
  • Botany Resources
• Species Accounts
  • Rare, Threatened, or Endangered Plants (PDF)
  • CalFlora Database, Botanical Resource for California
  • California Wildflowers
  • Plant Specimen Management System for California Herbaria
  • PLANTS National Database, USDA, Natural Resources Conservation Service

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Invertebrates

• General Information
  • Endangered Species Project, Vernal Pool Species
  • Endangered Species Project, Vernal Pools, Biology and Distribution
• Species Accounts
  • California's Threatened or Endangered Invertebrates
  • Butterflies of California
  • Moths of North America
  • Watchable Wildlife - Butterflies, California Department of Fish and Game

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Fishes

• General Information
  • A List of Freshwater, Anadromous, and Euryhaline Fishes of California
• Species Accounts
  • California's Threatened or Endangered Fishes
  • California's Fully Protected Fishes
  • California's Fish Species of Special Concern
  • Fishes of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Estuary and Adjacent Waters, California; A Guide to the Early Life Histories

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Amphibians (Frogs, Toads and Salamanders)

• General Information
  • California Reptiles and Amphibians
  • Partners in Amphibian and Reptile Conservation
  • American Museum of Natural History
  • USGS National Amphibian Atlas
  • DFG Searchable Document Library
  • Herpetological Conservation and Biology
• Amphibian Declines, Diseases, and Deformities
  • Global Amphibian Assessment
  • AmphibiaWeb - declines
  • AmphibiaWeb - deformities
  • Amphibian Survival Group - IUCN
  • Amphibian Research and Monitoring
  • California/Nevada Working Group, Amphibian Populations Task Force
  • Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd = chytrid fungus) Mapping Project
  • National Biological Information Infrastructure
• Species Accounts
  • California's Threatened or Endangered Amphibians
  • California's Fully Protected Amphibians
  • California's Amphibian Species of Special Concern
  • A Field Guide to the Reptiles and Amphibians of Coastal Southern California

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Reptiles (Snakes, Lizards and Turtles)

• General Information
  • USGS Facts About Snakes in California
  • California Reptiles and Amphibians
  • Partners in Amphibian and Reptile Conservation
  • Herpetological Conservation and Biology
  • DFG Searchable Document Library
  • San Diego Natural History Museum
  • USFWS Amphibians and Reptiles of Northern California (photos)
  • National Biological Information Infrastructure
  • Workshop on Captive Propagation and Sale of Native Reptiles and Amphibians in California (PDF)
• Species Accounts
  • California's Threatened or Endangered Reptiles
  • California's Fully Protected Reptile Species
  • California's Reptile Species of Special Concern
  • A Field Guide to the Reptiles and Amphibians of Coastal Southern California
  • DFG Snakes Article
  • DFG Watchable Wildlife - Western Pond Turtle

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Birds

• Learn About Birds
  • USGS Bird Studies
  • USFWS Birds Birds Birds!
  • The Bird Site: Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
  • San Diego Natural History Museum

• Bird Research and Conservation Organizations
  • California Partners in Flight
  • Audubon California
  • Western Field Ornithologists
  • PRBO Conservation Science
  • Western Hemisphere Shorebird Reserve Network
  • Pacific Seabird Group
  • Golden Gate Raptor Observatory

• Bird Monitoring
  • The North American Breeding Bird Survey
  • Christmas Bird Counts

• Sensitive Species Lists
  • California's Threatened or Endangered Birds
  • California's Fully Protected Bird Species
  • California's Bird Species of Special Concern

• Species Information
  • Cliff Swallow
  • Tricolored Blackbird

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Mammals

• General Information
  • Bats
    • White-Nose Syndrome in Bats: Briefing Note
    • Bats and Rabies
    • Western Bat Working Group
    • Bat Conservation International
    • North American Bat Conservation Partnership
    • San Diego Bat Conservation (Education and Rehabilitation)
    • Northern California Bats (education and rehabilitation)
    • California Bat Conservation Fund (education and rehabilitation)
    • USFWS bat information
    • Watchable Wildlife - Bats, California Department of Fish and Game
    • House Bat Management, U.S. Geological Survey
    • House Bat Species Accounts, U.S. Geological Survey
    • Key to Bats of Central California
    • North American Symposium on Bat Research
• Species Accounts
  • California's Threatened or Endangered Mammals
  • California's Fully Protected Mammal Species
  • California's Mammal Species of Special Concern
  • California Wildlife Habitat Relationship Species Notes
  • Mammalian Species, American Society of Mammalogists

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Species Conservation & Recovery Program Publications

Species Conservation & Recovery Program Graphic Information System Species' Distribution Maps