Image Caption: The picture above is a Grey Tree Frog (Hyla versicolor).

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Are you looking for a way to get your foot in the door with wildlife experience. Or maybe you just want to be involves with different projects with wildlife conservation efforts.

Well this in this post I'll share some projects that you do not even have to leave your house for! These will be projects that can range from looking at camera trap photos and identifying the mammals in the photos to going outside listening for frog calls to traveling to a wildlife corridor area to watch and listen for migratory birds!

Ways that people can get involved with conservation efforts are projects known as citizen science. Citizen Science are projects that the general public can get involved with to help scientists collect data to analyze wildlife populations and find solutions to worldwide issues that are causing wildlife populations to decrease.

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Let's start with the least intrusive citizen science programs out there-

1. Called Broodmapper. Broodmapper is important since it involves monitoring the early life of bees. Bees are incredibly important to our livelihood since without bees we would not have food! We would not also be able to feed other animals since plants need pollinators which bees are the #1 pollinators!

Here is a link: https://articles.extension.org/pages/61320/broodmapper:-honey-bee-development-and-citizen-science

This link gives you an idea on what you would be doing to help monitor health of bee broods or hives- If you want to get involved with this citizen science project go to link https://broodmapper.com/ and sign up!

2. If you like museum work and looking at catalogues of species. Look no further than Notes from Nature.

here is a link for https://www.notesfromnature.org/

3. If you are confident with identifying mammals, this projects is a great way to learn more about identifying mammals and keeping your skill in tact!

The project is called eMammal. This link: https://emammal.si.edu/participate lets you know how you can get involved.

• • If you have a camera trap- submit your photos into the database

  • You can analyze data

  • Last but not least you can identify the mammal species in the photo series

Here is the link: https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/emammal/emammal

Keep a look out for another blog post!

There is definitely more projects out there.