To Learn More
Resources for learning more about New York State's animals, plants and natural communities are listed here.
Birds:- The 2nd NYS Breeding Bird Atlas Project.
- Lists of Birds for each Breeding Bird Atlas survey block, and Atlas maps for each species.
- NYS Amphibian & Reptile Atlas Project (Herp Atlas), including lists of amphibians and reptiles in New York State, interim Herp Atlas maps, and fact sheets for some species.
- New York Natural Heritage Program
- NY Natural Heritage's Conservation Guides (leaving DEC website)
- NYSDEC's Endangered Species fact sheets
- Federal Endangered Species, web site of U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service's New York Field Office (leaving DEC website)
- NatureServe Explorer (leaving DEC website)
- List of animals that are rare in New York and are included in NY Natural Heritage's Biodiversity Databases (click on Rare Animal List).
- List of plants that are rare in New York and are included in NY Natural Heritage's Biodiversity Databases, including phenology (click on New York Rare Plant Status List).
- List of animals listed by the State of New York as Endangered, Threatened, or Special Concern under authority of Article 11 of Environmental Conservation Law.
- New York State's regulations regarding Endangered and Threatened animal species, and Species of Special Concern.
- List of plants listed by the State of New York as Endangered, Threatened, or Rare under authority of Article 9 of Environmental Conservation Law, and New York State's regulations regarding protected native plants.
- NY Natural Heritage's Conservation Guides (leaving DEC website).
- Descriptions of all community types (click on "DRAFT Ecological Communities of New York State").
- New York Biodiversity Research Institute (BRI)
- New York State Biodiversity Clearinghouse
- New York State Biodiversity Project
- The Nature Conservancy in New York
- Center for Biodiversity and Conservation of the American Museum of Natural History
- Center for Applied Biodiversity Science of Conservation International
- Biodiversity Hotspots
- The Nature Conservancy
- U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service's Endangered Species Program
- IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature), including the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species