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

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In summary, Chitose is a novelist in need of information on various animals and plants around the world for research purposes. She is particularly interested in finding information on eagles, hawks, and bears in Europe, but is unsure of how to search for them. Other locations she is interested in include the eastern coast of North America, the Grand Canyon, South China, and West Japan. Some resources recommended to her for finding this information include the website europeanraptors.org, a list of world biomes, and categories on Wikipedia for wildlife and flora by region. Chitose expresses her gratitude for the help.
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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.
 
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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
 
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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
 
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wow, this is great!

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

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