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Please use the e-mail link above to contact club officers. Feedback and enquiries are welcome.. If you notice any identifications in our site that are mistaken or questionable please let us know.
Useful sites
There are many websites that can help identify or enjoy wildlife and other specimens of the natural world from images. There are also photographic sites of interest.
Scroll down for sites members have enjoyed for various reasons including sites members have found useful when they have been trying to identify specimens.
The club has no responsibility for the content of other sites.
The links are grouped by their main focus into the sections shown below. The information about each is taken, some slightly edited, from the site or information about it. Therefore the link and information are given in the language of their site.
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Links to other people's sites
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Wildlife
Birds
Dragonflies/damselflies, Butterflies, Moths
Other invertebrates
Mammals
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Sea life
Freshwater life
Photography sites
Weather
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Wildlife
Cardiff Naturalists' Society
Talks and field trips cover all aspects of Wildlife from Plants to Animals, Birds, the Environment and Geology. With a mix of talks on local places in and around Cardiff and also the wider world
Cymdeithas Edward Llwyd
Trefnir yn flynyddol dros 100 o deithiau, pob un dan ofal arweinydd sydd â diddordeb arbennig mewn gwahanol agweddau ar fyd natur a hanes Cymru
iSpot
The Open University is developing this site as a place to learn more about wildlife and to share this interest with a friendly community. You can post photos of flora and fauna and experts or fellow users will identify them.
NHBS Environment Bookstore
NHBS Environment Bookstore - serving conservationists, scientists, wildlife enthusiasts and libraries since 1985. Search & browse from the world's largest selection of science and natural history books.
UK Safari
A Website for Anyone Interested in the Wildlife and Countryside of Britain
Wildlife Trust of South and West Wales
The Wildlife Trust of South and West Wales is one of 47 Wildlife Trusts across the UK. We are the fourth largest in area, covering from Cardiff and Caerphilly in the east to Ceredigion and Pembrokeshire in the west, and include 3 of the West Wales islands amongst our 90 or so nature reserves.
Wild about Britain
This website is home to hundreds of thousands of pages about British wildlife, the Environment and the Great Outdoors; from birds, butterflies, fungi and trees to climate change, marine life, astronomy and the weather.
Wildlife Gardener
"Expert advice on how to create a wildlife garden"
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Birds
Glamorgan Birds
The Glamorgan Birds Website is a joint venture between the Glamorgan Bird Club and Gower Ornithological Society. The main function of these bodies is to produce the annual bird reports for the East and West of the county of Glamorgan. This website features a number of online services aimed at making your birding in Glamorgan much easier.
Carmarthenshire Bird Club
The Carmarthenshire Bird Club exists to promote the observation, study and recording of the wild birds and wild-bird populations of Carmarthenshire. The club also organises meetings for its members which include field trips and talks on wildlife topics. Club meetings are an excellent opportunity to meet other birders and to visit places of ornithological interest in enjoyable company. We have over 100 members.
Club200 -Iceland/Birding Iceland
Fifteen years ago Icelandic birders argued about the possibility of seeing 200 species in Iceland. ... Since then a total of 19 birders have managed to join the Club 200 and today discussions of the establishment of Club 300 have risen.
Gwent Ornithological Society
Gwent Ornithological Society (GOS) was formed by & for those who are interested in birds. We have about 400 members & are always keen to welcome new faces.
The Gloster birder
The site includes County news, sites to visit, trip reports and other information about birds in Gloucestershire and beyond. Gloucestershire is one of the best counties to see many special birds. There are many important sites throughout the county and you will find a short report on each of the sites.
Pembrokeshire Bird Group
Pembrokeshire Bird Group which is part of the Wildlife Trust of South & West Wales. It caters for anyone with an interest in birds, whatever their level of experience. Membership is made up of those with many years of birding behind them through to others who are just learning the basics.
Royal Society for the Protection of Birds
We work for the conservation of wild birds in many different ways.
Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust
The Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust (WWT) is a leading conservation organisation saving wetlands for wildlife and people across the world. WWT is the only UK charity with a national network of specialist wetland visitor centres
Somerset Ornithological Society
The Somerset Ornithological Society is an organisation whose aims are to further the study of birds and to assist in their preservation.
Surfbirds.com
World birding news, identification and bird finding articles, photographs, sketches, and trip reports.
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Dragonflies/damselflies, Butterflies and Moths
British Dragonfly Society
The aim of the British Dragonfly Society is to promote and encourage the study and conservation of dragonflies and their natural habitats, especially in the United Kingdom.
Dragonfly-days
a website dedicated to the study and photography of Dragonflies and Damselflies in the South Wales area of the United Kingdom. I want to share with you the best places to see some of the many species we have recorded in this most interesting and habitat rich area.
Glamorgan Moth Recording Group
The Glamorgan Moth Recording Group (GMRG) aims are to promote moths, their habitats and to record Glamorgan’s moths via a database system which would lay down all the county’s lepidoptera records in place - with over 250,000 moth records now on the database, Glamorgan is one of the country’s best recorded counties for lepidoptera.
UK Butterflies
This website provides information on all of the butterfly species in the British Isles, including those that are extinct or migrants. This website is open to anyone wishing to contribute.
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Other Invertebrates
Mammals
The Company of Whales
The Company of Whales has been running whale, dolphin and bird-watching holidays since its inception in 1996. Based in the heart of the beautiful Shetland Islands, where we share our offices with award-winning sister company Shetland Wildlife, we are now firmly recognised as the largest and most experienced company operating in one of the world's premier wildlife-watching locations - the Bay of Biscay.
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Sea life
The Sea Shore
A Field Studies Council site to help interpret and understand the seashore and its organisms. The aim is to help with problems and queries about seashore ecology. We think our main audience will be sixth form biologists and geographers but anyone is welcome to use the site.
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Freshwater life
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Photography
Allen Lloyd landscape and nature photography
"I have spent a life in education as a chemistry teacher. I still enjoy nothing more than helping/teaching people to improve their photographic skills with the camera or with Adobe’s Photoshop"
Andy Rouse
"Andy is well-known to anyone with a passion for the natural world and his immense talent is synonymous with outstanding images and a dedication to work.
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The Veolia Environnement Wildlife Photographer of the Year Competition is owned by the Natural History Museum and BBC Wildlife Magazine. This site has a gallery of the most successful entries from 2005..
Willridge wildlife images
"Our photography concentrates almost exclusively on birds and mammals and is divided between attempting to capture on film and now digitally the local wildlife and trips further a field, being particularly taken with Finland. We have visited it six times in the last two years and been particularly impressed and inspired with their photographers more adventurous approach to wildlife photography."
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Weather
BBC Weather forecast
Met office forecast
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