The Ohio Wildlife Center has an excellent guide addressing many common scenarios (scroll down to see the list)
How do I stop birds from hitting my windows? Check out this page from the American Bird Conservancy.
Attract wildlife to your garden with native plants: Mt. Cuba Center (Hockessin, Delaware) has an excellent LibGuide. See also our Native Plant Resources tab in the menu to the left.
Reduce nighttime illumination: Learn how excessive light at night harms people as well as wildlife on Darksky.org, and see their Responsible Lighting Guide.
Keep Cats Indoors. Learn more about the impact of domestic cats on native wildlife on our blog:
ODNR’s excellent identification and backyard wildlife guides are a great place to start!
What Bird is That? The Cornell Lab has a mobile app called Merlin that also identifies songs. The Merlin app is powered by eBird, another excellent tool.
Want to learn about Ohio's most common snakes and how to identify them? Check out our Springtime Snake ID blog series:
https://www.ohiohistory.org/springtime-snake-id/
https://www.ohiohistory.org/springtime-snake-id-part-ii/
Our favorite animal and plant ID apps are Seek and iNaturalist. To learn the difference between the two and which might best suit your purposes, check out this article.
Please protect threatened and endangered species by obscuring their location when recording observations to public databases.
Record observations of everything, from plants and fungi to mammals and birds, and receive crowdsourced identifications while contributing to science
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