Cephalopodcast

Judging by the submissions to the website, I’d reckon that the admin over at Faunapolis lives in the Tampa Bay area.

Faunapolis is a place where you can share interesting photos and stories about animals that live in this new kind of jungle we call town, city, or even backyard. If you have a photo of an animal and need to find its species, this is the place to post that picture and get help. These creatures are learning to live with us, and new symbiotic relations between them and us are creating an entirely different ecosystem. Will we ever be able to coexist?

The site is run using Drupal and uses the Google API for adding geo-location info on animal sightings. Unfortunately, it does not include Creative Commons info for submitted pictures. Still, it wouldn’t take much more to turn this into an effective crowd sourcing effort for tracking the introduction and spread of exotic and invasive species.

There is also an unrelated Flickr group to share pics of urban wildlife.

Wildlife that lives in our cities or in our homes: pigeons, foxes, squirrels, rats, insects, spiders, seagulls, etc.

Many are dismissed as pests; most are ignored or unappreciated. Yet they manage to coexist with us despite (or in many cases, because of) increasing urbanisation.

There is definitely a vertebrate bias in the submission, with chubby squirrels and mallards well represented.

Finally, the Environmental Literacy Council has a few links to lesson plans on urban wildlife. Scroll all the way to the bottom.