ID Resource Resource Finder
The ID Resource Finder is an online searchable catalogue of UK wildlife identification resources. A key feature is that this catalogue is crowd-sourced, all you have to do is create an account to add/edit the resources.
If you spot anything missing, any broken links or mistakes then please jump in and add/fix it. Or let the team know about issue via email: [email protected].
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A guide to Life on Sandy Shores between Colwyn Bay and Fleetwood | A resource to help identify and record shore life available as part of the Liverpool Bay Marine Recording Partnership an | Ian Wallace Kathryn Turner | Yes | View Edit | |
Lobsters, mud shrimps and anomuran crabs | This Synopsis contains keys and details accounts for the identification of lobsters, mud shrimps and anomuran crabs. | Ingle & Christiansen | No | Publication | View Edit |
Orchid Id - The British Orchid Identification Guide | Orchid Id will help you identify and record the wild orchids of the British Isles. | Isoperla | No | App | View Edit |
Wild Flower Id - The British Identification Guide to Wild Flowers | App for identifying wild flowers of the UK. | Isoperla | No | App | View Edit |
Butterfly ID Europe: an iSpiny Pocket Guide to Butterflies and day-flying Moths | Identification app for butterflies and common day-flying moths of Western Europe. | iSpiny | No | App | View Edit |
An Illustrated Guide To The Diatoms Of British Coastal Plankton | Following introductory sections rm the structure and ecology of marine diatoms, a key is provided to some sixty forms mo | J. B. SYKES | Yes | Online, PDF | View Edit |
RES Handbook Vol 1 Part 14a. Trichoptera, Hydroptilidae | The last major review of the British Hydroptilidae was made by Mosely (1939), who described the males and ten females of | J. E. Marshall | Yes | Online, PDF | View Edit |
RES Handbook Vol 7 Part 2a i. Hymenoptera - Ichneumonoidea | This part of the Handbooks includes a provisional key to the subfamilies of Ichneumonidae and keys to species of the Ich | J. F. Perkins | Yes | Online, PDF | View Edit |
RES Handbook Vol 7 Part 2a ii. Hymenoptera - Ichneumonoidea | IN addition to the remaining tribe of the Ichneumoninae, this section of the Handbook also includes the Alomyinae, Agrio | J. F. Perkins | Yes | Online, PDF | View Edit |
RES Handbook Vol 6 Part 3a. Hymenoptera - Bethyloidea (excluding Chrysididae) | The Chrysididae, which are familiar insects, seem at first sight very different from the other much rarer Bethyloidea bu | J. F. Perkins | Yes | Online, PDF | View Edit |
Common Topshells: An Introduction To The Biology Of Osilinus Lineatus With Notes On Other Species In The Genus | This review concentrates on those features of common topshell biology that are amenable to field study – distribution, a | J. H. Crothers | Yes | Online, PDF | View Edit |
Rocky Shore Snails As Material For Projects (With A Key For Their Identification) | Rocky sea shores are amongst the best habitats in which to carry out biological field projects. In that habita | J. H. Crothers | Yes | Online, PDF | View Edit |
Biology And Identification Of Intertidal Polyzoa | THE Polyzoa are sedentary aquatic animals which form colonies by budding. | J. S. RYLAND | Yes | Online, PDF | View Edit |
Elateridae of the British Isles | From the website homepage: "The Elateridae, or Click Beetles as they are commonly known, are a family within the Co | J. Wallace | Yes | Online | View Edit |
BSBI Handbook No 3 Docks and Knotweeds of Britain and Ireland | ISPN: 9780901158475 Based on "Docks and Knotweeds of the British Isles" by Lousley and Kent (1981) this long | J.R. Akeroyd | No | Publication | View Edit |
Top 50 garden birds: British garden bird identification | This fold-out chart is designed to help with the identification of the majority of bird species likely to be found in a | Jackson, Simms & Shields | No | Publication | View Edit |
Vegetative identification keys for selected woody plant genera in Western European cultivation | Vegetative identification keys (pdf files in English) for selected woody plant genera in Western European cultivation, c | Jan De Langhe | Yes | Online, PDF | View Edit |
Dutch Opiliones, Harvestmen | Some very good photographs of most Dutch harvestmen on one page (including most of the UK fauna). English version. | Jan J van Duinen | Yes | Online | View Edit |
Dutch Harvestmen website | Dutch Harvestmen website (in English). Most British species are described and illustrated, plus some new species. | Jan van Duine | Yes | Online | View Edit |
British Spider identification | Facebook group dedicated to identifying British spiders. | Jenni Cox | Yes | Online | View Edit |
BSBI Handbook No 5 Charophytes of Great Britain and Ireland | Reprinted 2005 with a new preface and corrections by Dr C. Preston. | Jenny A Moore | No | Publication | View Edit |
The Butterflies of Britain & Ireland (new 2014 edition) | The Butterflies of Britain & Ireland provides comprehensive coverage of all our resident and migratory butterfli | Jeremy Thomas & Richard Lewington | No | Publication | View Edit |
BSBI Handbook No 1 Sedges of the British Isles | ISBN-13: 978-0901158352 The 3rd edition of this handbook has been considerably expanded in size, with the scope of the | Jermy, AC. Simpson, DA. Foley, MJY. Porter, MS | No | Publication | View Edit |
Spinnentiere, Arachnida: Weberknechte, Opiliones (Martens 1978) PART 1 | German text. Huge amount of taxonomic information and diagrams about harvestmen. | Jochen Martens | Yes | View Edit | |
Spinnentiere, Arachnida: Weberknechte, Opiliones (Martens 1978) PART 2 | German text. Huge amount of taxonomic information and diagrams about harvestmen. | Jochen Martens | Yes | View Edit | |
Spinnentiere, Arachnida: Weberknechte, Opiliones (Martens 1978) PART 3 | German text. Huge amount of taxonomic information and diagrams about harvestmen. | Jochen Martens | Yes | View Edit | |
An amendment to the crab key | The crab key (Crothers and Crothers, 1983) is amended to incorporate the pelagic crab Planes minutus. | John and Marylin Crothers | Yes | Online, PDF | View Edit |
RES Handbook Vol 8 Part 1b. Hymenoptera. Cynipoidea. Eucoilidae | THE family Eucoilidae is the largest and most widely distributed of the parasitic families in the Cynipoidea. | John Quinlan | Yes | Online, PDF | View Edit |
Field key to bee-flies of the Netherlands | Superbly illustrated photographic key (in Dutch) to Bombyliidae & Mythicomyiidae. | John Smit | Yes | Online, PDF | View Edit |
Guides to British Beetles | John Walters free downloadable guides to a growing selection of British Beetles | John Walters and Mark Telfer | Yes | Online, PDF | View Edit |
Coleoptera: Clambidae | RES Handbook vol 4 part 6a. The family Clambidae is represented in Britain by two genera: Clambus and Calyptomerus. | Johnson | No | Publication | View Edit |
Moorland Plants | This fold-out chart is designed to aid the identification of moorland and heathland plants in the British Isles. | Jones & Roberts | No | Publication | View Edit |
A guide to British Bats | This 8-panel laminated fold-out chart includes 16 species of bats that live and breed in Britain. | Jones & Walsh | No | Publication | View Edit |
Keys to families of British spiders | This AIDGAP identification guide includes the 34 families of spiders known to occur in Britain (at the time it was writt | Jones-Walters | No | Publication | View Edit |
Punch-card grasses key - Identikit | In 1985 the Field Studies Council published an innovative polyclave (multi-access) key to British grasses that relied on | Judith Allinson, Richard Pankhurst and Richard Burkmar | Yes | Online | View Edit |
Diatom Flora of Britain and Ireland | Freshwater Diatom Flora of Britain and Ireland is a major project aiming to compile a web-based diatom flora and compreh | Jüttner I., Bennion H., Carter C., Cox E.J., Ector L., Flower R., Jones V., Kelly M.G., Mann D.G., Sayer C., Turner, J. A., Williams D.M. | Yes | Online | View Edit |
The Spiders of Europe and Greenland | From the homepage: "The aim of this website is to show images of as many European spider species as possible. | Jørgen Lissner | Yes | Online | View Edit |
The Pseudoscorpions of Europe | From the homepage: "The aim of this webpage is to provide information about the pseudoscorpion fauna of Europe. | Jørgen Lissner | Yes | Online | View Edit |
RES Handbook Vol 10 Part 14. An introduction to the immature stages of British Flies. Diptera Larvae, with notes on eggs, puparia and pupae. Main text | Knowledge of the larvae of Diptera lags far behind that of the adults. | K. G. V. Smith | Yes | Online, PDF | View Edit |
RES Handbook Vol 10 Part 14. An introduction to the immature stages of British Flies. Diptera Larvae, with notes on eggs, puparia and pupae. Figures index | This is just the figures and index for the volume of the same name. | K. G. V. Smith | Yes | Online, PDF | View Edit |
Copepods parastic on fishes (revised) | This Synopsis covers 130 species known to parasitise fish (mainly from the poecilostomatoid and siphonostomatoid groups, | Kabata | No | Publication | View Edit |
Trees of Britain and Europe | This field guide contains a collection of photographs of everything you need to identify a tree - whether in winter, spr | Keith Rushforth | No | Publication | View Edit |
Identification of common benthic diatoms in rivers | This AIDGAP field guide includes illustrated identification keys to the genera of diatoms found in benthic habitats in r | Kelly | No | Publication | View Edit |
ID guide to pines grown in the UK (Pinus) | ID guide to pines grown in the UK (Pinus), including leaves and cones. | Ken Adams | Yes | View Edit | |
RES Handbook Vol 10 Part 5g. Diptera - Agromyzidae | THE Agromyzidae belong to the section Acalyptratae of the suborder Cyclorrhapha Schizophora. | Kenneth A. Spencer | Yes | Online, PDF | View Edit |
RES Handbook Vol 10 Part 3a. Diptera - Conopidae | FLIES of the family Conopidae may be recognized by the narrowed or closed first posterior cell (R5) and the long anal ce | Kenneth G. V. Smith | Yes | Online, PDF | View Edit |
Botanical keys and how to use them - Facebook group | A closed group (anyone can request to join). | Kevin Widdowson | Yes | Online | View Edit |
Freshwater Bivalves of Britain and Ireland | Produced in conjunction with the Environment Agency, this AIDGAP identification guide covers the 31 different species of | Killeen, Aldridge & Oliver | No | Publication | View Edit |
Coleoptera: Kateretidae & Nitudulidae: Meligethinae (Pollen beetles) | RES Handbook vol 5 part 6a. | Kirk-Spriggs | No | Publication | View Edit |
Siphonophores and velellids | To all except marine biologists, the Portuguese man-o'war Physalia is often regarded as the only British siphonopho | Kirkpatrick & Pugh | No | Publication | View Edit |