Museum Victoria’s Field Guide to Victorian Fauna

Now available on the App Store

Explore south eastern Australia’s unique and diverse wildlife at home or in the great outdoors with Museum Victoria’s new Field Guide app. Available in both iPad and iPhone/iPod Touch versions, 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 700 species, from animals found in rockpools, 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.

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 reusing 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 through the Discovery Centre.

Alan Henderson / Minibeast Wildlife

Bruce Thomson / Australian Wildlife Photos

Dave Watts / Dave Watts Photography

David Paul / dpImages

David Stewart / Nature Sound

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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 plans to release the source code for the app under an open source license. We expect to have this out by the end of June 2011. You can find out more about this part of the project at the Field Guide to the Field Guide blog