My local field guide

A field guide to the reptiles and amphibians where you live.

Pick your county, parish or census division and choose the animals you care about. You get a guide with photos, the names people actually use, when each species is usually seen, frog and toad calls, a checklist and pages for field notes. Read it on your phone, print it or save it as a PDF, share the link, or save it on your device for places with no signal. Free, and in beta.

No AI-generated answers. Built from real sources and fixed rules.What this meansClose

When you use this tool, no AI writes your answer. The result comes from rules we set ahead of time, applied to information gathered from sources such as field guides, scientific records and our own courses. It is not made up on the spot.

AI did help us build it: writing code, organizing information and drafting some of the drawings.

How we build our tools

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Free, and staying that way

Help keep these tools running

This tool, the free snakes course, the Primer and everything on our Resources page will always be free. If it helped you and you would like to help keep it running (and help us build the next one), you can pitch in. Everything given goes to LEARN, the nonprofit rescue that runs The Herpetology Collective, so it also helps feed, house and care for the animals we take in.