Museum Victoria’s Field Guide to Victorian Fauna
Image: Museum Victoria
Source: Museum Victoria
Now available in the iTunes and Google Play App Stores
Explore south eastern Australia’s unique and diverse wildlife at home or in the great outdoors with Museum Victoria’s Field Guide app. Now available for both Apple and Android devices – phones, tablets and phablets – the app combines detailed animal descriptions with stunning imagery and sounds to provide a valuable reference that can be used in urban, bush and coastal environments.
The app holds descriptions of over 730 species, from animals found in rockpools and minibeasts in your garden, to birds, mammals, lizards and snakes you might see in the bush. We’ve put in a lot of species, but it’s still a fraction of the complete fauna of Victoria. Our scientists will continue to add additional species and refine descriptions over time.
Museum Victoria’s Field Guide to Victorian Fauna
Image: Museum Victoria
Source: Museum Victoria
Media credits and acknowledgements
Images and sounds within the app are from Museum Victoria’s collections as well as sourced from external photographers and sound recordists.
For enquiries about using any media in the app, some photographers can be contacted directly using the links below. If the image you are interested in is held by Museum Victoria, or by a photographer not listed, please make your enquiry via the Discovery Centre.
Alan Henderson / Minibeast Wildlife
Bruce Thomson / Australian Wildlife Photos
Dave Watts / Dave Watts Photography
David Paul / dpImages
David Stewart / Nature Sound
Flagstaffotos
Howard Plowright / Bird Observation and Conservation Australia
John Gibbens / Seal Images Marine Life Photography
Otto Rogge / Otto Rogge Photography
Paul Randall / Wings on Wire
Peter Fuller / Peter Fuller Photography
Steven Flanagan / Steven Flanagan Photography
Open source code
Museum Victoria has released the source code for the iOS app under an open source license. You can find out more about this part of the project at the Field Guide to the Field Guide blog. The source code for the Android version will be made available in the coming weeks.