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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| Bird ID - Easy Bird Identification | Comprehensive online guide to UK birds, extensive database of information on birds and enables you to quickly identify b | birdid.co.uk | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| A field guide to the shallow-water echinoderms of the British Isles | Field guide & practical reference book on echinoderms likely to be encountered between the tides & under | Bernard E. Picton | No | Publication | View Edit |
| Common Micro-moths of Berkshire | The book is an extensively illustrated guide to the identification of over 100 the common micro-moths found in Berkshire | Berkshire Moth Group | No | Publication | View Edit |
| The Common Grass Moths of Berkshire (VC22) | The Grass Moths (Crambinae) are represented by 39 species in the British Isles. | Berkshire Moth Group | Yes | Online, PDF | View Edit |
| Beetle fauna of Germany | An amazingly rich website containing superb photos of a huge range of beetle species. | Benisch, C. | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| Checklist of the Collembola | A catalogue and encyclopaedia of world Collembola. | Bellinger, P.F., Christiansen, K.A. & Janssens, F | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| Guide to chalk rivers of England | Produced in partnership with the Herts and Middlesex Wildlife Trust, this fold-out chart provides an identification guid | Bell & Shields | No | Publication | View Edit |
| House and garden spiders | Spiders have eight legs... and many of them spin webs to catch their prey... | Bee & Lewington | No | Publication | View Edit |
| Woodland name trail (mini beasts) | Looking to identify the minibeasts of soil and leaf litter? | Bebbington et al | No | Publication | View Edit |
| Guide to grassland plants 2 (chalk and limestone) | Featuring colour illustrations of 63 species, and black-and-white illustrations of a further 15, this 12-page fold-out c | Bebbington & Roberts | No | Publication | View Edit |
| Butterflies of Britain | Looking for an identification guide / chart to British butterflies? This 8-panel laminated guide / chart - our | Bebbington & Lewington | No | Publication | View Edit |
| Hawkmoths of the British Isles: Identification Guide | Hawkmoths (family Sphingidae) are some of the most colourful and conspicuous moths in the British Isles. | Bebbington & Lewington | No | Publication | View Edit |
| Describing flowers | Do you want to use a flora but not sure what the terms actually mean? | Bebbington & Bebbington | No | Publication | View Edit |
| Bugs on bushes | Aimed at upper primary ages and above, this 12-page laminated fold-out chart is a name trail designed to help children i | Bebbington & Bebbington | No | Publication | View Edit |
| How to identify hoverflies | Pictoral guide to identify 12 common hoverfly species | BBC Wildlife Magazine/Felicity Rose Cole | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| How to identify UK animals | Simple guides and keys to amphibians, reptiles, swallows swifts & martins, garden butterflies, common dragonflies, m | BBC Nature | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| Bat Droppings Guide | A guide to the droppings of British bats, including diagrams illustrating the shape and size differences between species | Bat Conservation Trust | No | Publication | View Edit |
| ID guides to difficult British spiders | In the UK spiders are one of the few invertebrate groups where the majority of the species can be identified with " | BAS | Yes | Online, PDF | View Edit |
| RES Handbook Vol 6 Part 3c. Hymenoptera - Formicidae | THE British Isles, including the Channel Islands, have 44 known, indigen-ous ant species at the present time. | Barry Bolton & Cedric A. Collingwood | Yes | Online, PDF | View Edit |
| Guide to the adult caddisflies or sedge flies (Trichoptera) | Adult caddisflies, also known as sedge flies, are well known to fly fishermen, who imitate them with artificial flies. | Barnard and Ross | No | Publication | View Edit |
| The adult Trichoptera (caddisflies) of Britain and Ireland | RES Handbook Vol 1 Part 17. | Barnard & Ross | No | Publication | View Edit |
| Key to the identification of British centipedes | This AIDGAP identification guide should enable non-specialists to identity the 57 species of centipede found on the isla | Barber | No | Publication | View Edit |
| Centipedes | Aside from the insects, centipedes (Class Chilopoda) are some of the commonest larger arthropods found in gardens, waste | Barber | No | Publication | View Edit |
| Sea-Spiders (Pycnogonida) of the north-east Atlantic | This Synopsis covers all eighty-four species recorded at all depths from the north-east Atlantic, east of the Mid-Atlant | Bamber | No | Publication | View Edit |
| Mosses and Liverworts of Britain and Ireland a field guide | The want of a field guide has for many years greatly hindered further spread of interest in British and Irish field bryo | Atherton, Bosanquet , & Lawley | No | Publication | View Edit |
| BBS Field Guide online pages | Individual online PDFs for each page in 'Mosses and Liverworts of Britain and Ireland a field guide'. | Atherton, Bosanquet , & Lawley | Yes | Online, PDF | View Edit |
| Lifestages of British shieldbugs | Superb illustrations produced by Ashley Wood allow easy comparison between the life stages of a range of UK shieldbug sp | Ashley Wood | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| Key to the British Potter and Mason Wasps | Taken from 'The British Potter and Mason Wasps - a Handbook', a detailed handbook, providing keys, distributio | Archer, M.A. | Yes | View Edit | |
| The Vespoid Wasps | RES Handbook Vol 6 Part 6. | Archer | No | Publication | View Edit |
| Herptile ID | Identification guide to amphibian and reptile species of the British Isles. | ARC | No | App | View Edit |
| Spiders of North-West Europe | From the homepage: "This European spider site contains over 1500 pictures of 378 spiders in 176 genera commonly fou | Anon | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| Marine planktonic Ostracods | The Ostracoda are a sub-class of relatively small crustaceans which occur in most aquatic habitats. | Angel | No | Publication | View Edit |
| Hoverflies of the British Isles | Poster pictorial guide to commonly seen hoverflies of the British Isles | Andy Slater | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| ARC Amphibian Identification Guide (pdf) | Pictorial guide to all stages of all Britain's native and most widespread alien amphibians, downloadable as a pdf. | Amphibian and Reptile Conservation | Yes | Online, PDF | View Edit |
| ARC Reptile Identification Guide (pdf) | Pictorial guide to all stages of all Britain's native and most widespread alien reptiles, downloadable as a pdf. | Amphibian and Reptile Conservation | Yes | Online, PDF | View Edit |
| Beetle News | A collection of newsletters available as PDFs most of which include an identification article for a group of beetles. | Amateur Entomologists' Society | Yes | Online, PDF | View Edit |
| The Eyewitness Handbook of Trees | A field guide to trees around the world, each depicted by a full-color photograph with a caption that describes key feat | Allen J. Coombes | No | Publication | View Edit |
| The Flora and Vegetation of Shropshire | The Flora and Vegetation of Shropshire is a book which describes the distribution and ecology of every one of the plants | Alex Lockton and Sarah Whild | No | Publication | View Edit |
| British Hoverflies | Illustrated identification keys, species account, including, description, habitat, distribution, flight period. | Alan Stubbs and Steven Falk | No | Publication | View Edit |
| Trees of Britain and Northern Europe | A guide to the identification of all tree species found in Britain and northern Europe. | Alan Mitchell | No | Publication | View Edit |
| Conifers in the British Isles: a descriptive handbook | A comprehensive (if a little dated) guide to British conifers. | Alan F. Mitchell | No | Publication | View Edit |
| Provisional atlas of the ptychopterid craneflies (Diptera: Ptychopteridae) of Britain and Ireland | Published by NERC 1993 atlas and key | Alan E Stubbs | Yes | Online, PDF | View Edit |
| Agromyzidae of Great Britain and Ireland | A descriptive and illustrative guide to the Agromyzidae (leaf-mining flies) of the British Isles | Agromyzidae Recording Scheme | Yes | View Edit | |
| Checklist of the Lepidoptera of the British Isles | RES Handbook vol 12 part 6. This new checklist covers all recorded UK species. | Agassiz, Beavan & Heckford | No | Publication | View Edit |
| A Photo Key to Great Diving Beetles | It is generally known that Great Diving Beetles are some of our largest freshwater insects and most naturalists | Adrian Chalkley | Yes | View Edit | |
| A Photo Key to Large Aquatic Bugs | Whilst identification to species of many of the smaller aquatic bugs can be complicated, those described here are fairly | Adrian Chalkley | Yes | View Edit | |
| Cladocera Interest Group Website | Updated British Species list, Identification assistance, Distribution maps, Species Photos, Newsletters, Collecting tips | Adrian Chalkley | Yes | Online, PDF | View Edit |
| An Atlas of Waterfleas in Britain & Ireland | Updated distribution maps for 89 of the 92 species of Cladocera living in the water bodies of Britain & Ireland. | Adrian Chalkley | Yes | Online, PDF, Publication | View Edit |
| Sponges of Britain and Ireland | A website based on the text Sponges of the British Isles - A colour guide and working document, 1992 Edition. | Ackers, R.G., Moss, D. & Picton, B. E. | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| Sponges of the British Isles ("Sponge V") | Guide to the sponges of Britain and Ireland, revised 2007. | Ackers, R.G., Moss, D. & Picton, B. E. | Yes | View Edit |
