Select local native plants suited to climate and soil for your restoration project.

Contents

1. Use
2. Background
3. See also
4. External links
5. Further reading
6. Information provided by

Select local native plants suited to climate and soil for your restoration project. > start PlanterGuide

Background (edit)

What is PlanterGuide

This is a web based tool to help back the dawn chorus!. It will help you identify birds, find out more about them including how to create native bird friendly habitat as part of your project. BirdGuide is still being developed.

Bird Lists

One thing it already does is enable users to create a bird list. There are a number of bird lists that can be seen already. To create a bird list for your site go to "Site Manager" in your password area. You need to have been given this role by your family or group.

The bird lists can be used for what ever reason you want. Eg:

• to list what was here before
• what is here now
• what we want to reintroduce.

You can create as many lists as you want. Any bird found in NZ can be selected by species name and added to a list. Notes about each bird observation can be added.

Future Plans

• An online administration area for editing details about birds has also been created for the contributors to BirdGuide.
• More features will be added based on your feedback including making it more user friendly.
• There are currently no pictures, video clips, sounds or distribution maps on the website, but these will be added progressively by NZERN members.
• Links will be made from each species to Birdlife International, Birdnet and other useful sites.
• Useful reading references will be supplied.
• In 2003 any registered user will be able to report bird observations by location.
• An online forum will be created for interested users.
• Data can be available for sharing with other organisations including DoC, Landcare Research and Ornithological Society of New Zealand.

See also (edit)

• OSNZ
• NZ Recognised Bird Names (NZRBN) Database
• Birdlife International
• What Bird

External links (edit)

• www.osnz.org.nz

Further reading (edit)

• A.L. Poole and Nancy M. Adams. Trees and shrubs of New Zealand
• Hugh Wilson and Tim galloway. Small-leaved shrubs of New Zealand. Manuka Press. ISBN 0-473-018151-9
• Lawrie Metcalf. The Cultivation of New Zealand plants. Godwit.

Information provided by (edit)

Harry Boufal, Mia Colberts, Andrew Crossland, Simon Johnson, Edith Jones, Mike Peters.

Keyword (edit)
Carex Secta    Sedge

Last updated 2 December 2007 3.41PM by PIPI