How Do I Efficiently Research Animals and Plants for My Novel?

[Chitose]

Hello, Chitose wonder chick here

I'm a novelist and also I have to do some research for my work.

right now I'm stuck at type of animal in certain location around the world.

example, I want to know about what type of eagle and hawk that live in Europe, or bear in Europe but I don't know how to search for?

I put 'eagle' in wiki and Wola! hundred of eagle name and family pop up, give me headache to check single one of them to find that live in Europe.

sometimes if possible, I also want to find about plant in some location too,

anybody have idea how to search for their name?

Thank you in advance

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English is not my native language, forgive me If I'm wrong in spelling or gamma.

 

[Andre]

Just look around. It's not difficult

http://europeanraptors.org/

and linking down

http://www.europeanraptors.org/raptors.html

 

[Chitose]

Thanks, there goes for Europe.

but what about other? my novel story is move all around the world, I might look for animal around eastern cost of north America too and may be in gran canyon, south china, west japan etc...

>< Oooo man

 

[Evo]

Try this, I have some other ecosystem maps somewhere.

http://www.blueplanetbiomes.org/world_biomes.htm

(also, it voila, not wola)

 

[Newai]

You might find this useful:

http://www.google.com/Top/Science/Biology/Flora_and_Fauna/

You can also try Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fauna_of_Europe

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flora_of_Ireland
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fauna_of_Ireland

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wildlife_of_Brazil
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wildlife_of_Sudan

Just substitute the Country or Continent as needed. I don't know how complete it is, but if it has Ireland and Sudan...

And I just found this category list:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wildlife_by_region
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Flora_by_region
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Phytogeography

 

[Chitose]

wow, this is great!

Thank you very much, I'll bookmark all of them