2024 Featured Mission
Project Squirrel
For 2024, Project Noah's featured mission is Project Squirrel!
A favorite Noah Mission, Project Squirrel helps us better understand the ecology of our local backyard spaces! Share your favorite squirrel wildlife observations from your backyard, park, school, community garden or homestead.
Popular Missions
Birds of the World
Birds of the World is Project Noah's most popular mission! Over 12,500 Project Noah members have contributed over 100,000 bird spottings into Birds of the World.
Moths of the World
Moths of the World is the official Mission for National Moth Week every July! The focus of this mission is to promote appreciation of the diversity, aesthetic value and ecological importance of moths.
Butterflies & Moths of the World
Butterflies & Moths of the World is another Project Noah favorite. Join over 8,000 members contributing over 70,000 butterfly and moth spottings!
The Lost Ladybug Project
Search and photograph ladybugs! Join the Lost Ladybug Project and 5,446 members contributing over 3,000 ladybug spottings.
International Spider Survey
Share photos of orbs, weavers, tarantulas, wolf, jumping, fishing, funnel web spiders or any other eight-legged Aranea!
WILD Cities: Urban Biodiversity
Cities are home to impressive biodiversity! Share your encounters with species dwelling in the urban environment, enriching our lives and connecting us to nature!
Mushroom Mapping
Mushroom ecology is a pivotal orientation point for exploring urban systems. Help us gather important data and spread knowledge about mushrooms by documenting their locations in your area. The Mushroom Mapping project is a collaborative effort between Columbia’s Urban Landscape Lab, Spatial Information Design Lab and StrataSpore.
Signs of Wildlife
Signs of wildlife live everywhere. From subtle animal tracks and abandoned spider webs, to weathered bones and shells. This mission has been created to highlight some of the signs we've come across while out in the field.
The Color Red
The color red is a bold color that represents passion. We created a collection of wildlife images based on the color red to show our passion for nature and the preservation of ecosystems worldwide.
Flowers of North America
Flowers of North America features beautiful flower photography along with field notes. Join the most popular plant mission on Project Noah!
Galapagos Biodiversity
Our Galapagos Biodversity mission showcases the stunning beauty and special ecology of the Galapagos Islands.
The Hoppers
Led by Ranger CindyBinghamKeiser, share your favorite Hoppers photographs! Add only Froghoppers/Spittle Bugs, Leafhoppers, Sharpshooters, Planthoppers, Lanternflies, Peanut-head flies, Treehoppers, Piglet Bugs and Cicada spottings. Please do not add grasshoppers, crickets, katydids, frogs, spiders & other non Auchenorrhyncha suborder organisms.
Marvelous Mantids of the World
Led by Ranger ForestDragon, our Marvelous Mantids of the World mission celebrates these amazing insects! Unusual and alien-looking, these predatory creatures are loved by many and considered good luck in some cultures.
Mantids are sold as beneficial insects for gardens, though they are not picky about what they eat and will prey on butterflies as easily
as grasshoppers. Some species of mantids get large enough to catch and eat frogs, lizards and even hummingbirds!
Backyard Habitats of the World
Some of the most remarkable nature and wildlife can be seen right in your own backyard! The focus of this mission is to share pictures of any and all wildlife that you observe in your own backyard or garden.
Regional Missions
Spiders of Greece
Observe, record and photograph species of the order Araneae in Greece
Spiders of India
Share spottings and information on Spiders photographed only in India!
Philippines Missions
United States Missions
Shorebirds of the Gulf Coast
Photograph shorebirds, including all birds in the order Charadriiformes, from any location bordering the Gulf of Mexico
Snakes of the Southeastern US
Spottings of wild snakes in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia!
Past Missions