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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 Mammals | Amphibians and Reptiles | Fish Plants Plants | Trees | Wildflowers | Ferns | Grasses | Mosses | Mushrooms | Lichens | Edible Plants Other Life Mushrooms | Lichens | Molluscs | Invertebrates | Earthworms | Bacteria | Habitats Sky and Earth Sky | Astronomy | 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 Return to Ontario Naturalists |