Site Credits

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Photo credits and restrictions

Many thanks to all the generous people who donate their art and images to Flickr.com and WikiMedia Commons for folks like us to use. We're greatly in their debt, yet they ask nothing in return except a little recognition for their work. You'll see their excellent images credited throughout this web site. WikiMedia images are free to anyone who wishes to use them, providing you follow their terms of use under this license and others similar to it. The licenses basically say that: You must always attribute the images; in some cases, you may alter the images as long as you acknowledge and describe those changes; and you may redistribute images so long as you do so under the same license agreements. Another special thanks goes to the photographers at Stock.Xchng who allow their images to be used without restriction. Some of their photos also enhance this website.

That said, please note that many of the images on this site are copyrighted. We're at liberty to re-distribute some of them, but not all. So, please contact us if you're interested in using an image and explain your intended use. We respect the copyrighted materials of others and will share only what we legally can.

Aerial view - Brad Driver
American Robin w/ berry - Jemini Joseph
American Robin w/ insect - Jesse Yardley
American Snout - Tara Allison
Ant (Black Carpenter) with aphids - Bruce MacQueen
Assassin Bug egg case - Tara Allison
Banded tree snail - Carlos C. Aguero
Barn swallow (homepage) - J.J. Cadiz/WikiMedia
Barred owl - Denise Kappa
Bat Colony - George Burba
Bee fly - Tara Allison
Bi-colored Blackbird - Len Blumin/WikiMedia
Big Brown Bat - Stephen C. Burnett
Big Brown Bat - Phil Haney/S.D. Bat Working Group
Bird babies, mostly featherless - Kuan Chong Ng
Birdhouse, fancy - Xyno
Bird Feet - NorbeckKids.com; orig. art by Infovisual.info
Bird held in hands - Jeff Chevrier
Bird Parts - NorbeckKids.com; orig. art by John P. O'Neil)
Birdhouse, simple - Brandon Laufenberg
Black-necked Stilt - Naturespicsonline
Black swallowtail butterfly (homepage) - Tara Allison
Blue Jay crest - Lightwriter1949
Blue Jays pair - Chris Hill
Bluejays bathing (homepage) - Tara Allison
Broad-billed Hummingbird - Nature's Display
Butterfly, Pearl Crescent (homepage) - Tara Allison
Box Turtle - Constance McGuire
Boy with caterpillar on face - Sanclemenesdigpro
Bubbler birdbath - Paul Maybury/Flickr
Bullfrog - Karn Troup
Bullfrog foot - Amy Snyder; Exploratorium.edu
Butterfly house - Tatiana Sayig
Butterfly proboscis - Christoph Ermel
Cactus Wren - Alan Vernon/WikiMedia
California Condor - USFWS
Calliope Hummingbird - Frank Leung, BirdImages Photography
Cardinal pair - Cathy Keifer
Caterpillar anatomy - Michal Komorniczak
Child and caterpillar - Nathalie Fisher
Chipmunk drinking - Gordo25
Cockroach - Chartchai Meesangnin
Compound eyes - Bryan Faust
Copperhead Snake - Paul Wolf
Costa's Hummingbird - Jesse Baget
Costa's Hummingbird male - PDPhoto/WikiMedia
Cottonmouth Snake - Jason Poston
Cottontail rabbit - Stefan Ekernas
Cottontail rabbit (homepage) - Dave or Atox/Flickr.com
Cottontail rabbit (right sidebar) - Jody Dingle
Cottontail babies - Midwest Wilderness
Coyote - Sascha Burkard
Coyote (on Mammals page) - George Vivanco
Coyote (right sidebar) - George Vivanco
Crayfish - Tara Allison
Damselflies mating - Mlan61
Damselfly eyes - Piotr Adamski
Dragonfly emerging - Simon Coomber
Dripper - Jodi Cox/Flickr
Dusky Seaside Sparrow - U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Earthworm "face" -David Anderson
Earthworm - Viorika Prikhodko
Earthworm drawing - Coleopter
Earwig, female - Igor Semenov
Earwig, male - Fritz Geller-Grimm/WikiMedia
Eastern Fox Squirrel - Gail Johnson
Eastern Gray Squirrel - John Anderson
Elephants - P. J. Malsbury
Female whitetail, fawn - Howard Cheek
Female whitetail - Guy Sagi
Firefly - Shaday365
Fish (Koi) - Marketa Ebert
Flame Skimmer Dragonfly - Joey Gil
Flesh fly - Stasvolik
Flowers (coreopsis and poppies), on main Plants page - Elena Elisseeva
Fly (Muscidae) - Chartchai Meesangnin
Fountain - MayBayButter
Frog - Steve Byland
Frogspawn - Maurice van der Velden
Fruit Bat - Daniel K. Riskin
Green Bottle Fly - Jahoo
Giant Swallowtail - Jake Holmes
Graylag Geese - Olivier/WikiMedia
Green Darner - Darrin Aldridge
Green tree frog vocal sac - Clearviewstock
Harvestman - Holly Kuchera
Hawaiian Goose - Blueye
Heavy clay soil - Wiki/Siim Sepp/cropped from original by WW
House fly - Chartchai Meesangnin
House mouse - Tom Mounsey
House mouse hiding in grass - UC IPM online
House mouse on birdfeeder - Rick Wylie
House mouse on burlap - W.H.Kern and Jr., P.G.Koehler, Univ. of Florida
House Sparrows - Steve Byland
Insect anatomy - Piotr Jaworski/WikiMedia
Insect house - Tara Allison
Lady beetle larva - James Benet
Lady beetle illustration - Rampersad Ramautar
Leopard Frog - Ron Brancato
Male whitetail, velvet antlers - Alan D. Wilson/Nature's Pics
Mallard ducklings (homepage) - Tara Allison
Mallards sleeping - Roland zh/WikiMedia
Man spraying vine - Alistair Scott
Man spraying lawn - Marcel Pelletier
Mason bee - Allison Stewart
Mead's Milkweed - USFWS
Monarch's emerging - Cathy Keifer
Mosquito proboscis - doug4537
Mosquito abdomen - James Gathany, Centers for Disease Control
Mosquito larva - Douglas Allen
Mourning Dove (right sidebar) - Mr Jamsey
Mouse ("Rodents" page) - George Shuklin/WikiMedia
Mouse baby - Brenda Cienfuegos
Northern Mockingbird wings - Manjith Kainickara/WikiMedia
Northern Mockingbirds on feeder - Jodie Richeal
Oak Tree - Kevin Tuck
Ocelot - Matt Ellis
Opossum - Maverick Enterprises
Opossum (right sidebar) - Adam Larsen
Opossum w/ babies - Heatfield Photographic
Penstemon digitalis - Tara Allison
Pillbug - Joseph Calev
Pine Siskin - Darren Swim/WikiMedia
Proboscis - Christoph Ermel
Rufus Hummingbird - Frank Leung
Raccoon - Catharina van den Dikkenberg
Raccoon eating - Denise Kappa
Raccoon in cage - Sarah Finney
Raccoon (right sidebar) - Zennie
Raccoon babies - Jon Canfield
Raccoon family - Lisa F. Young
Red-eyed Tree Frog - Carey James Balboa
Red Fox (right sidebar) - Stephen O. Muskie
Red Fox baby - Joakim Stolt
Red-sided Garter Snake - Tara Allison
Red-winged Blackbird female - Steven Pavlov
Red-winged Blackbird male - Riverwalker
Red-winged Blackbirds in flight - Qualisule
Ring-necked Pheasant - Oregon Dept. F&W
Road grader - Andrew Dean
Robber fly - Gary Boisvert
Robin with berry - Wildbird Images
Robin with insect - Jesse Yardley
Rufous Hummingbird - Bird Images
Saddleback caterpillar - Jeff Smallwood
Scientific classification - Jack/WikiMedia
Shrub (Gooseberry), on main Plants page - Ronald Schuster
Spider (Phidippus audax) - Tara Allison
Snail - Anneke Schram
Snail (Other Animals page) - Bulgar Wladimir
Sparring bucks - Mike Rogal
Squirrel orphan - Amanda Melones
Squirrel mother and babies (homepage) - Tara Allison
Striped Skunk - Morganry
Striped Skunk (right sidebar) - Geoff Kuchera
Summer Azure - Tara Allison
Taxile's skipper - Tara Allison
Tiger Bee fly - Allison Stewart
Toad - Brian Church
Toad foot - Amy Snyder; Exploratorium.edu
Tree (on main Plants page) - Kevin Tuck
Tree frog foot - Amy Snyder; Explortorium.edu
Tree Swallows - John Anderson Photo
Turtle - Constance McGuire
Vampire Bats - Daniel K. Riskin
Western Prairie Fringed Orchid - U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Whitetail male fawn w/ pedicles - Wild Geese
Whooping Crane - Robert Blanchard
Whooping Crane on FB page - Rod/WikiMedia
Willow Ptarmigan - USFWS/WikiMedia
Wood Duck - Rinus Baak
Woman watering plant - Amana Productions
Woodhouse's Toad - Doug Von Gausig
Uncredited photos - Tara Allison
Yellow rat snake - Scott Batykefer