Links
A collection of hopefully useful and interesting links.
This includes links to literary sites and resources, with a special focus on haiku. As well as sites dedicated to nature exploration, species identification, wildlife guides, nature conservation organizations, or celestial events such as meteor showers. With a special focus on birds, butterflies, and moths. Lastly, there are links to technology websites, e.g., web-design resources, free image sites, AI tools, web tools, and some apps.
Contents
Literature
Books & Texts (Free & Public Domain)
- Digital Dante
- Feedbooks
- LibriVox: Free public domain audiobooks.
- Open Source Shakespeare
- Project Gutenberg
- Projekt Gutenberg
- Standard Ebooks
- Wikibooks: Free textbooks
- Wikisource: The Free Library
Poetry
- Haiku of Kobayashi Issa
- Mann Library’s Daily Haiku
- The Haiku Foundation
- tinywords: haiku & other small poems.
Dictionaries
- LEO
- Wiktionary
- Deutsch
- English
- Cambridge Dictionary
- Collins: Free online dictionary, thesaurus and reference materials
- Merriam-Webster
- OED | Oxford English Dictionary: The historical English dictionary
- Français
Translation Apps
Nature
- Kompaktlexikon der Biologie
- OneZoom: tree of life explorer.
Animals
- Birds
- All About Birds
- Audubon: Guide to North American Birds.
- BirdNET - Live Submissions Map
- Birds of the World
- eBird
- Eurasian African Bird Migration Atlas
- RSPB: The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds.
- Vogelwarte
- Butterflies & Moths
- Butterfly Conversation
- euroButterflies
- lepido: Papillons de Suisse.
- LepiWiki
- UK Butterflies
- UKMoths: Guide to the moths of Great Britain and Ireland.
- Other Animals
- info fauna: Nationales Daten- und Informationszentrum der Schweizer Fauna.
- kerbtier.de: Käferfauna Deutschlands.
- Orthoptera.ch: Heuschrecken-Plattform für die Schweiz und Europa.
- The Deep Sea
Plants
Space
- Daily Moon Guide: NASA’s interactive map for observing the Moon each day of the year.
- Eclipses
- Meteors
- Online planetarium
Texts
- NZZ: Insekten sind für die Biodiversität unersetzlich. Diese Grossaufnahmen zeigen ihre Schönheit
- Reuters: On the brink
- Reuters: The collapse of insects
- Reuters: Why plants matter
Tools
- Scythebill: Open-source, cross-platform birdwatching/nature-watching software.
Technology
Design & (Free) Design Resources
- Colours
- Adobe Color
- ColorSpace
- conic.css
- Coolors
- CSS Color Filter Generator
- Huemint: Color palette generator.
- Khroma: AI color tool.
- Realtime Colors: Visualize Your Colors On a Real Website.
- Fonts
- Graphics Tools
- Icons
- Images
- Inspiration
- Patterns
- Hero Patterns
- Websites to Generate SVG Patterns
- SVG Shape Dividers Creator
- Haikei: Shape Generator.
- Photos
Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing
- Keras
- spaCy: Industrial-Strength Natural Language Processing.
- TensorFlow
- Examples
Privacy
Software
Web Frameworks, Methodologies & API
Web Tools
- Convert HTML to Markdown
- Convert URL to HTML Link
- Diagrams & Flowcharts
- Programmable Pen Tool
- Omatsuri: Open source browser tools for everyday use.
Apps
Calendars
Nature
- BirdNET Sound ID
- eBird by Cornell Lab.
- Flora Incognita
- iNaturalist
- Merlin
- Seek by iNaturalist.