Encyclopedia of Life - create a collection for your home zoo

Stefka

Stefka

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I would like to do a bit of promotion of the EOL website :-) Encyclopedia of Life

In David Brown´s thread Question: are you interested in how the wild cousins of zoo animals are doing? » General Zoo Discussion was discovered, that some ZooChatters don´t know about this great tool and I came up with an idea, how to make the website interesting for all of you.

If you register on EOL, you can create your own collection of animals. It can be animals you´re interested in, animals you have, birds you observed on your birdfeeder.. whatever you want.

I´ve created Mammals of Dublin Zoo collection and planning to create two more - Reptiles of Dublin Zoo and Birds of Dublin Zoo. You can view the collection here: Collection: Mammals of Dublin Zoo - Encyclopedia of Life

I know that you can find information about species in each zoo on ISIS or Zootierliste, but EOL will provide you with detailed information about each species, its place on the tree of life, articles from Arkive, IUCN and other websites, pictures, videos and so on.

How about creating a collection from YOUR home zoo and post it here?
;)
 
nice bit of work, did it take long to do this? i just had a quick look and it looks great.
 
Not at all, it´s only 37 species and you don´t put together the articles, you just find each species in the database and add it to the collection, one by one. When I wasn´t sure about some species, I looked it up on ISIS and ZooTierliste for control, but that´s it, not hard at all.

Try it! ;-)

Oh, you´re from here, right? Have a look at this Collection: Birds in Bray Harbour, Ireland - Encyclopedia of Life - these are birds I saw in Bray harbour last week. People can let me know, if they see some other species there and I simply add them to the collection.
 
Thanks for bringing this to my attention stefka as it seems to be a very interesting site with great potential.
Other birds regularly seen around or at this site are rock pipit, grey and pied wagtail, oystercatcher, cormorant and the odd peregrine or merlin.
Just up the beach is bray head and that will soon have good breeding colonys of auks, fulmar, kittiwake and shags on the cliff face and rocks. In the woodland and scrub above the cliffs, stonechat, linnet, thrush's, sparrowhawk, kestrel and raven are among the birds to be seen.
 
Collection: Birds of Dublin Zoo - Encyclopedia of Life

Collection: Reptiles of Dublin Zoo - Encyclopedia of Life

I´ve just finished the reptiles and birds. So, Dublin Zoo is complete. (I won´t bother with creating a special collection for two invertebrates and one amphibian species)

Anyway, I really hope that some of you will join me in this little project and create a collection for your home zoo soon. :-)

Bob Corrigan, EOL Product Manager, was really excited about this idea and wants to write about it in EOL Blog.

So please guys, don´t let me down! ;)
 
dublinlion said:
Thanks for bringing this to my attention stefka as it seems to be a very interesting site with great potential.
Other birds regularly seen around or at this site are rock pipit, grey and pied wagtail, oystercatcher, cormorant and the odd peregrine or merlin.
Just up the beach is bray head and that will soon have good breeding colonys of auks, fulmar, kittiwake and shags on the cliff face and rocks. In the woodland and scrub above the cliffs, stonechat, linnet, thrush's, sparrowhawk, kestrel and raven are among the birds to be seen.
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Thanks, dublinlion. I know that many more species can be seen in the area, but I just wanted to list the birds I (or other EOL members) saw on this small crowded and busy place. Kinda like "collecting thing". :-) I believe I´ll see many more species on my next visit and add them to the collection, I just didn´t want to add something I didn´t see on my own eyes :-)
 
ungulate nerd said:
@ stefka I am having i hard time creating my list, any pointers ?
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Hie, ungulate nerd, thanks for doing this!

What are you having trouble with? Creating the collection or finding some species in the database?

Here´s the "manual":
1) you need to be logged in
2) find the desired species in the database. You can use either common or scientific name to do that.
3) once you find the profile (page) of the species, click on "add to collection"
4) click on "create a new collection" and name it. (eg. Ungulates of Los Angeles Zoo)
5) once you have your collection, you can simply find other species and use the "add to collection" button on their profile. It will always ask you if you want to create a new collection or if you want to add it to your existing one.

6) you can view and manage your collection by clicking on your profile. You can upload a primary picture for your collection, change the name, write a description for you collection...

Hope this makes sense.

Let us know, how is it going. What collection are you creating?
 
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