How does the free text work?
Even though it is called free text some basic typographic rules should apply (as far as it is possible in the web). That means in detail:
Nothing but headlines can be written in bold face and those in turn are not underlined. Emphasized part within the text are written italic. For security reasons HTML tags can not be allowed, instead BBCode like tags will be used to markup text.
There are two types of headlines: A primary headline, which is marked up with
[fhl]xxx[/fhl]
and a secondary headline, which is marked up with
[shl]xxx[/shl]
Italic text:
[emph]xxx[/emph]
and centred parts as such:
[c]xxx[/c]
Location search
Check out which plants and animals can be found in the area of a certain location. Just enter the name of a certain location and see what happens.
Why cookies?
You need to accept cookies in order to log in to the website. As part of the security concept the cookies help to prevent your account from being hijacked by other persons. (Session Hijacking)
As long as you are not logged in cookies don't have to be accepted.
These cookies only contain a session-ID, which helps to keep everything working properly.
How to create a new entry?
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Bird identification
The identification tool works with tags (colours, shapes and patterns) which are used to describe the bird you'd like to identify. You will obtain better results if you try to fill out as many fields as possible describing each body part as accurately as you can.
How to obtain better results?
Only use the colours light brown and dark brown in combination, otherwise we recommend using brown instead.
The fields are not limited to one tag only. Certain body parts can present more than one colour. Separate tags by commas or whitespaces.
Valid tags
Colours
colourful (only in "Overall picture")
white, grey, black
yellow, orange, red, green, blue, purple, rose, light brown, brown, dark brown
Shapes
bent
Patterns
striped, spotted, patterned, barred, speckled
Want to join us?
What is Planet-Terra about?
Our aim is to create a database, which contains information about the earth's flora and fauna as well as their distribution area based on sightings.
What can you do?
Most important: you can do whatever you want, as much as you want and whenever you want to. You can enter at what point of time and where you have spotted certain species and in this way help to create detailed maps of distribution. If you'd like to you can also write or edit articles about plants and animals and upload photos.
Many features can be used without registering to the website. Only in order to upload photos and edit articles you need to create an account.
Plant identification
Colour
This tool helps identifying plants by means of their flowers. Even though there are flowers exhibiting more than one colour, only one of them needs to be chosen.
Type of flower
In order to simplify the identification, the classification of flower types used here, is not done strictly according to the current state of biology.
One separate single flower
The plant has only one flower or one small flower head.
Multiple separate single flowers
The plant has several clearly separated single flowers or small flower heads.
Composite (Umbel, Panicle, etc.)
Large composite flowers, which are composed of many little flowers.
Atomic flower type
Mit diesem zugegebenermaßen ungewöhnlichen Begriff sind die Blüten gemeint, aus denen sich ein kompletter Blütenstand zusammensetzt. Das können kleine Blütenköpfe aber auch große Rispen, Dolden oder Ähren sein.
Radial symmetry
Blüten, die um einen bestimmten Winkel gedreht, gleich aussehen.
Zygomorphic
Flowers which exhibit symmetry along a single axis.
Zungenblüten / Röhrenblüten
Das Gänseblümchen ist ein Beispiel für diesen Blütentyp. Die "Blüte" ist eigentlich keine Einzelblüte, sondern besteht in Wirklichkeit aus vielen weißen Zungenblüten (am Rand) und etwa 100 gelben Röhrenblüten in der Mitte.
