Online Resources
Websites
Nature Watching: How to Find and Observe Wildlife. Casey McFarland’s excellent video series. Covers a wide variety of topics with loads of tracking information. Available at Wondrium, 14-day free trial and monthly plans ($20-12.50 per month).
Ann Hunkins new Facebook page- loaded with information, news, and events on New Mexico tracking.
Animals Don’t Cover Their Tracks, Animal Track Identification Help Group.
Kim Cabrera’s Facebook page for anyone who wants to learn more about tracks, new postings of unknown tracks & sign every day.
Cybertracker Specialist Evaluation Study Buddies. A more advanced facebook group designed to help people studying for specialsit evaluations.
Beartracker's Animal Tracks Den
Kim Cabbrera's website, filled with photos, educatinal videos, detailed information on tracks and sign. There is even a trackers on-line store.
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US Fish and Wildlife - The Feather Atlas
US Fish & Wildlife Feather Atlas. Searchable database of hundreds of bird feathers.
iNaturalist Project - Found Feathers
Large project with almost 1600 species identified by 37,000 participants
Jonah Evans tracking app. Includes detailed photos, measuremenst on many mammal tracks, and a search function which identifies a track based on the informatiion you input. $15.
Jonah Evan’s website. Rich and detailed website with thousands of photographs of tracks and sign taken by him over many years of tracking evaluations. Photographs can be viewed without identifying information to allow the viewer to try to identify them, them with identifying information. An excellent learning tool.
Tracker Certification North America
Website of the North American branch of the organization that tests and certifies trackers worldwide. Includes list of all trackers, a calendar of upcoming evaluations, and recordings of monthly videos of interest to the tracking community.
On line correspondence course taught by Lee Gutteridge and Kersey Lawrence, founders and operators of the Original Wisdom school, which teaches nature skills, including trackers to individual seeking certification as wildlife guides. Taught over private Facebook page- 30 assignments which teach skills rather than individual tracks and therefore are useful for New Mexico trackers. $35.
On line tracker training sessions taught by Dan Gardoqui. 90-minute sessions ($20) on a variety of subjects including preparing for an evaluation and tracking in the winter.
Southwest Wildlife Online Tracking Training
Designed to train members of the San Diego Tracking team survey trackers. 26 rigorous weeks taught by some of the best trackers in the world, including Ann Hunkins. $100 charge- next class starts July 29, 2024.
iNaturalist Project - Bird Tracks and Sign
Large project with over 26,000 observations, almost 900 species, and 5600 participants.
