Field guides are easy enough to find, but here are some harder-to-find tools you can use to develop your identification skills. I'll update this page from time to time if I find particularly good resources.
- Sagehen Basin Custom Field Guides: we have created downloadable iNaturalist field guides to Sagehen botany (and other biota) for your smart device that will help you identify the most likely candidates in the Sagehen basin and adjacent areas.
- Guide to Western Bumblebees. You would think that bumblebees would be easy to identify, but it turns out to be non-trivial. Fortunately, there's now a real guide to western bumblebees.
- Butterfly Families. There are really only 6 Families of butterflies, and learning them will jumpstart your IDs, giving you the skill to immediately narrow down the candidates.
- Feathers: identifying feathers can be a challenge, but here are a couple of really good resources:
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