Biodiversity Heritage Library

http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/

“Welcome to the Biodiversity Heritage Library, a consortium of natural history and botanical libraries that cooperate to digitize and make accessible the legacy literature of biodiversity held in their collections and to make that literature available for open access and responsible use as a part of a global “biodiversity commons.” –From the website.

The State of the Birds 2011

http://www.stateofthebirds.org/

The U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service offers its annual report on the state of birds.  It highlights the importance of public lands in bird conservation.