Resources

The following is a compilation of my favorite resources from the blog. Let me know if you have any scientifically sound resources that you would like me to add.

Large Waterbird Links

1. Audubon Guide to North American Birds - Great Egret
   
2. Cornell Lab All About Birds - Great Egret
   
3. University of Michigan Animal Diversity Web - Ardea alba great egret
   
4. Cornell Lab All About Birds - Great Blue Heron
   
5. Volusia Naturalist - Hot Birds
   
6. Maroon 5 - Moves Like Jagger ft. Christina Aguilera (Official Music Video)
   
7. Audubon Guide to North American Birds - Great Blue Heron
   
8. Cornell Lab All About Birds - Cattle Egret
   
9. Cornell Lab All About Birds - Cattle Egret Life History
   
10. University of Michigan Animal Diversity Web - Bubulcus_ibis cattle egret
    
11. Audubon guide to North American Birds - Cattle Egret
    
12. Florida’s Cattle Industry
    
13. Cornell Lab All About Birds - Great Blue Heron
    
14. A Wurdemann’s-Like Heron from South Florida
    
15. Cornell Lab All About Birds - Green Heron
    
16. Audubon Guide to North American Birds - Green Heron
    
17. Little Blue Heron Breeding Behavior
    
18. Audubon Guide to North American Birds - Little Blue Heron
    
19. Cornell Lab All About Birds - Little Blue Heron
    
20. University of Michigan Animal Diversity Web - Egretta_caerulea little blue heron
    
21. Etiquette Scholar - Bad Table Manners
    
22. Cornell Lab All About Birds - Limpkin
    
23. Cornell Lab All About Birds - Reddish Egret
    
24. Cornell Lab All About Birds - Compare Great Egret and Snowy Egret
    
25. Audubon Guide to North American Birds - Snowy Egret
    
26. UF Wildlife Johnson Lab - Southern Leopard Frog
    
27. Cornell Lab All About Birds - Snowy Egret
    
28. Cornell Lab All About Birds - White Ibis
    
29. Smithosonian Institute's The Feather Trade and the American Conservation Movement
    
30. Florida’s Wading Birds Had a Terrible Breeding Season Last Year
    
31. Audubon - How Birds Keep Their Cool
    
32. Cornell Lab All About Birds - Tricolored Heron
    
33. xeno-canto Sharing bird sounds from around the world - Tricolored Heron
    
34. Audubon Guide to North American Birds - Tricolored Heron
    
35. Cornell Lab All About Birds - Tricolored Heron
    
36. Animal Diversity Web - Eudocimus albus White Ibis
37. University of Michigan Animal Diversity Web - Eudocimus_albus white ibis
    
38. Cornell Lab All About Birds - White Ibis
    
39. Cornell Lab - All About Bird Anatomy
    
40. Cornell Lab All About Birds - White Ibis
    
41. Urbanized White Ibises (Eudocimus albus) as Carriers of Salmonella enterica of Significance to Public Health and Wildlife
    
42. Audubon Guide to North American Birds - White Ibis
    
43. Seaworld Parks & Entertainment - Scarlet Ibis
    
44. Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission - Wood Stork
    
45. Cornell Lab All About Birds - Wood Stork
    
46. American Bird Conservancy - Wood Stork
    
47. University of Michigan Animal Diversity Web - Mycteria_americana wood stork
    
48. Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission - Wood Stork
    
49. The Hydrological Cycle
    
50. Cornell Lab All About Birds - Yellow-crowned Night Heron
    
51. University of Michigan Animal Diversity Web - Yellow-crowned Night Heron
    
52. Cornell All About Birds - Yellow-crowned Night Heron vs. Black-crowned Night Heron Comparison
    
53. Cornell Lab All About Birds - Black-crowned Night Heron
    
54. University of Michigan Animal Diversity Web - Black-crowned Night Heron
    
55. Audubon Guide to North American Birds - Black-crowned Night-Heron
    
56. Smithsonian's National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute - Roseate Spoonbill
    
57. Cornell Lab All About Birds - Roseate Spoonbill
    
58. Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission - Roseate Spoonbill Platalea ajaja
    
59. NH PBS NatureWorks - Roseate Spoonbill - Platalea ajaja
    
60. Animal Diversity Web - Eudocimus ruber Scarlet Ibis
    
61. Why Can't Different Species Mate With Each Other?
    
62. Birds of North America - Roseate Spoonbill
    
63. Cornell Lab All About Birds - Glossy Ibis
    
64. Wikipedia - Geordi LaForge
    
65. NH PBS NatureWorks Glossy Ibis - Plegadis falcinellus
    

Florida Spider Links

1. Starbellied Orbweaver - BugGuide.net
2. Ghost Spider - Common Spiders of North America, Richard A. Bradley. University of California Press, 2013.  
3. Argyrodes elevatus - Dew-drop Spider.pdf
4. Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum - Carolina Wolf Spider
5. BugGuide.net Family Araneidae - Orb Weavers
6. Bugguide.net - Family Thomisidae - Crab Spiders
7. Bugguide.net - Flower Crab Spiders
8. Bugguide.net - Species Misumena vatia - Goldenrod Crab Spider
9. The Chemistry of Sexual Selection (If you can't access this article, just sign up for a free JSTOR account, which lets you read 100 free research articles every month. This is one of my favorite sources.)
10. Common Spiders of North America, Richard A. Bradley. University of California Press, 2013. 
11. Convenient culprit: Myths surround the brown recluse spider
12. Cornell Lab of Ornithology All About Birds - Yellow-rumped Warbler (Spider predator)
13. Dick Walton Natural History Services Leptofreya ambigua Edwards, 2015 - Jumping Spider
14. Encyclopedia of Life - Gasteracantha cancriformis - Crab-like Spiny Orb Weaver
15. Encyclopedia of Life - Selenopid Crab Spiders
16. Wikipedia/iNaturalist - Argiope-aurantia
17. Wikipedia/iNaturalist - Argiope-florida
18. Wikipedia/iNaturalist - Black-tailed Red Sheet Weaver
19. Insect Identification for the Casual Observer - Eastern Harvestman (Leiobunum vittatum)
20. Insect Identification for the Casual Observer - Running Spider (Trachelas sp.)
21. Insect Identification for the Casual Observer - Selenopid Crab Spider (Selenops spp.)
22. The Journal of Arachnology 22 :138—16 0NEARCTIC SPECIES OF THE WOLF SPIDER GENUS RABIDOSA (ARANEAE: LYCOSIDAE)
23. Jumping Spiders?
24. KATYDIDS, CRICKETS, AND GRASSHOPPERS BEWARE, GREAT BLACK WASPS AND KATYDID WASPS ARE IN THE AIR: SPHEX SPP. (Spider predator)
25. Martins, R. (1991). Nesting Behavior and Prey of Poecilopompilus algidus fervidus and Tachypompilus xanthopterus (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae). Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society, 64(2), 231-236.  (Spider predator)
26. Myth of the Brown Recluse: Fact, Fear, and Loathing
27. Myth: You identify spiders by "markings"
28. North American Insects & Spiders - Orb Weaver Spider – Neoscona arabesca
29. Sexual behavior, cannibalism, and mating plugs as sticky traps in the orb weaver spider Leucauge argyra 
30. Species delimitation of the North American orchard-spider Leucauge venusta (Walckenaer, 1841) (Araneae, Tetragnathidae)
31. This Is How to Find the Spiders That Are Staring At You in the Dark
32. University of Florida Featured Creatures - Brown Widow Spider
33. University of Florida Featured Creatures - Golden Silk Spider
34. University of Florida Featured Creatures - green lynx spider
35. University of Florida Featured Creatures - Jumping Spiders
36. University of Florida Featured Creatures - Orchard Obweaver, Orchard Spider
37. University of Florida Featured Creatures - Regal Jumping Spiders
38. University of Florida Featured Creatures - Tropical Orb Weaver
39. University of Florida Featured Creatures - yellow garden spider, writing spider
40. University of Florida IFAS Extension - Regal Jumping Spider, Phidippus regius
41. University of Michigan Museum of Zoology Animal Diversity Web - Argiope aurantia
42. Wikipedia - Wolf spider
43. Trashline Orbweaver
44. Bowl and Doily Weaver Spider (Frontinella communis)
45. University of Florida Featured Creatures - Spinybacked Orbweaver
46. 5 Animals That Go Through Metamorphosis & How They Do It
47. University of Florida Featured Creatures - Southern Black Widow Spider
48. Genus Misumena - Flower Crab Spiders
49. University of Florida Featured Creatures - Neoscona
50. Wikipedia/iNaturalist - Red House Spider
51. Allometric growth (Male Regal Jumping Spider)
52. Spider Sunday: Flatties
53. Florida Entomology Facebook Page
54. All About Birds - Loggerhead Shrike
55. Pipe Organ Mud Dauber
56. Real Life Spider Man Debunks Myths About Arachnids
57. Agrarian Sac Spider and Longlegged Sac Spider
58. University of Florida Featured Creatures - Pantropical Huntsman Spider
59. Wikipedia/iNaturalist - Typical Cobweb Spiders (Genus Theridion)

Spider Trivia Links:

• COMMON FLORIDA SPIDERS
• Myth of the Brown Recluse: Fact, Fear, and Loathing
• Spiders North America
• Spider Identification Guide - Fantastic free online guide with great photos and drawings. 
• (USF) REAL LIFE SPIDER MAN DEBUNKS MYTHS ABOUT ARACHNIDS
• Venomous Spiders in Florida

Dragonfly Links

• 8 Things You Never Knew About Dragonflies
• Blue Dasher Dragonflies (Family Libellulidae)
• Carolina Saddlebags dragonflies (males)
• Eastern Pondhawk
• Erythemis simplicicollis (Say), a Dragonfly Predator of the Bollworm Moth 

• Motor Control: How Dragonflies Catch Their Prey
• Nutritional and sensory quality of edible insects
• The secret of dragonflies' flight
• Tiny Dragonfly Backpacks Reveal Mysteries of the Brain
• Odonata Central (Although this is still useful, to be honest, I liked this better when it was a general reference, but they have since converted it to an e-bird like app instead of just a general reference. It’s like the difference between Cornell’s All About Birds site vs. Ebird - the Cornell site is just much easier to navigate.)