Field Guides of Ontario


The selection of field guides at your local Chapters and/or Coles is limited.  Only the most popular field guides reach the bookstores and even the online markets don't carry everything.  Since the most useful field guide is often one that is local, you may have to buy direct from a small publisher due to the small market for the book even if the quality of the field guide is superb!  Here I have compiled a directory of field guides that should cover most of the diversity found in nature of interest to an amateur naturalist in our area.

Birds  General | Local Beginners' Guides | Identification Challenges | Different Approaches to Birding | Nests | Miscellaneous Guides | On the Web | Software  
Birds by Group Regional Series | Waterfowl | Hawks | Shorebirds | Gulls | Owls | Warblers | Sparrows and Finches | Other Groups | Videos
Bugs Bugs >Regional | >Field | >Reference | >Unusual | >Web Sites | Butterflies & Moths >Butterflies | >Caterpillars | >Moths | Odonates: Dragonflies and Damselflies Beetles Beetles | Tiger Beetles | Lady Bugs | >Fireflies | Diptera: True Flies Hover Flies | Bee Flies | Robber Flies | Mosquitos | Black Flies | Orthoptera Grasshoppers | Crickets | Katydids | Hemiptera: True Bugs Cicadas | Hymenoptera Ants | Bees | Wasps | Spiders | Crayfish | Other Bug Groups 
Animals  MammalsAmphibians and Reptiles | Fish 
Plants Plants | Trees | Wildflowers | Ferns | Grasses | MossesMushrooms | Lichens | Edible Plants 
Other Life Mushrooms | Lichens | Molluscs | Invertebrates | Earthworms | Bacteria | Habitats 
Sky and Earth  SkyAstronomy | Atmospheric Optics | Weather | Natural Radio | Earth
General Field Guides Field guides covering everything and a draft species diversity section.

Best Selections All the must haves for most flora, fauna and phenomena in nature.
Choosing Criteria for choosing field guides.
Equipment Besides field guides and standard binoculars, what to take with you out in the field
Sounds 
Bibliography 
Summary
Future Field Guides Specuations and some drooling :-) over what field guides we might see in the future

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