Our house in Ivry has a shelf full of Peterson’s Field Guides — birds, trees, butterflies. I spent hours pouring over the Field Guide to wildflowers, learning about marsh mallow and lady slippers.
White admiral butterflies (identified by Seek) on white cows parsnip (identified by Picture This).
These days, identifying plants, animals, birds and even the planets in the night sky is a lot easier. You just need a phone and the right app.
Here are few apps, we’ve used. Let us know if you have favourites we should add to our list.
Plants
Picture This: https://www.picturethisai.com/app
My Plantum: https://myplantum.com/
Pl@ntNet: https://plantnet.org
Seek: https://www.inaturalist.org/pages/seek_app
Wildlife
Seek: https://www.inaturalist.org/pages/seek_app
Birds
Merlin Bird ID: https://merlin.allaboutbirds.org/