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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Description | Author(s) | Free | Availability | |
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| Opal Tree Guide | Guide to 9 common UK tree species. | OPAL | Yes | Online, PDF, Publication | View Edit |
| OPAL Key to common British earthworms | Field key to the common species of UK earthworms devised as part of the engaging Soil and Earthworm survey. | OPAL | Yes | Online, PDF, Publication | View Edit |
| Online key to common lichens on trees in England | This key to common species of lichens on trees was prepared in collaboration between two partners of the European projec | Pier Luigi Nimis, Pat Wolseley & Stefano Martellos | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| Online Identification Guide to the Birds of Britain and Europe | Beginners and advanced online keys. | surfbirds.com | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| October Fungi Spotter’s Sheet | Photo guide to the most common autumnal fungi. | Plantlife | Yes | View Edit | |
| Nottinghamshire Shieldbugs | The excellent Eakringbirds.com website contains and excellent section on the Shieldbugs of Nottinghamshire includes phot | Trevor and Dilys Pendleton | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| North-west European thecate hydroids and their medusae (part 2) | Hydroids and their medusae are amongst the most exquisitely beautiful and intriguing of marine invertebrate groups. | Cornelius | No | Publication | View Edit |
| North-west European thecate hydroids and their medusae (part 1) | Hydroids and their medusae are amongst the most exquisitely beautiful and intriguing of marine invertebrate groups. | Cornelius | No | Publication | View Edit |
| New Flora of the British Isles | Description Since its first publication in 1991, New Flora of the British Isles has become established as | Clive Stace | No | Publication | View Edit |
| Naamlijst en determinatiesleutel tot de pseudoschorpioenen van nederland (arachnida: pseudoscorpiones) | A dutch key to dutch Pseudoscorpions. It's in Dutch. | Dick van den Tooren | Yes | Online, PDF | View Edit |
| Mydiptera by Leif Karlsson Online Diptera keys | Online illustrated key to world diptera families, plus keys to species for some Muscidae genera and various other fly fa | Leif Karlsson | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| Moths & Butterflies of Britain & Ireland | Photographic guide accessing UKMoths.org.uk and distribution maps from the National Moth Recording Scheme when online. | Nature Guides Ltd | No | App | 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 |
| MoorWILD pdf | This printable PDF is a field guide to some of the most common and/or iconic moorland animal species found within the Pe | Moors for the Future | Yes | Online, PDF | View Edit |
| MoorWILD app | This app is a field guide to some of the most common and/or iconic moorland animal species found within the Peak Distric | Moors for the Future, Natural Apptitude Ltd | Yes | App | View Edit |
| MoorSIGHTS pdf | This printable pdf is a field guide to some of the most common and/or iconic landscape features of the Peak District Nat | Moors for the Future | Yes | Online, PDF | View Edit |
| MoorSIGHTS app | This app is a field guide to some of the most common and/or iconic landscape features of the Peak District National Park | Moors for the Future, Natural Apptitude Ltd | Yes | App | View Edit |
| MoorPLANTS pdf | A printable pdf to help identify the plants you encounter on the Peak District and South Pennine peatlands and moors. | Moors for the Future | Yes | Online, PDF | View Edit |
| MoorPLANTS app | An app to help identify the plants you encounter on the Peak District and South Pennine peatlands and moors. | Moors for the Future, Natural Apptitude Ltd | Yes | App | View Edit |
| MoorMOSS app | This app is primarily a field guide to the Sphagnum mosses found in the Peak District National Park and South Pennines a | Moors for the Future, Natural Apptitude Ltd | Yes | App | 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 |
| Meres and Mosses | This new 12 panel fold-out chart showcases the wildlife of the Meres and Mosses landscape of Shropshire, Cheshire and St | Boardman & Daniels | No | Publication | View Edit |
| MCS Jellyfish Guide | Photo guide to 6 species of UK jellyfish plus 2 species of Hydrozoa (Portuguese man-of-war and By the wind sailor) to he | Marine Conservation Society | Yes | Online, PDF | View Edit |
| May Wildflowers Spotter’s Sheet | Photo guide to the most commonly seen wildflowers in May | Plantlife | Yes | Online, PDF | View Edit |
| Marsh horsetail - ID video | A guide to the diagnostic features of Equisetum palustre (Marsh Horsetail) to aid in the identification of the species. | BSBI | 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 |
| Marine and brackish water Harpacticoid Copepods (Part 1) | The order Harpacticoida is one of the ten orders of the sub-class Copepoda which, along with six other sub-classes, make | Huys et al | No | Publication | View Edit |
| March Wildflowers Spotter’s Sheet | Photo guide to the most commonly seen wildflowers in March. | Plantlife | Yes | Online, PDF | View Edit |
| Mammal Tracker | The Mammal Tracker smartphone application is the first extensive phone app for the identification and recording of Briti | Natural Apptitude Ltd. | Yes | App | View Edit |
| MAKAQueS | Comprehensive electronic multiaccess key to the vascular plants of the British Isles, available for desktop computers an | C J Dixon | No | App | View Edit |
| Longhorn Beetles Identification Chart | Covering 42 British species, the Longhorn Beetles Identification Chart is the first popular guide for many years to thes | Wil j. Heeney; Katy Potts; Richard Lewington | No | Publication | 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 |
| Littoral Pycnogonids Of The British Isles | Keys to the littoral pycnogonids of the British Isles are presented. | P. E. KING and G. B. CRAPP | Yes | Online, PDF | View Edit |
| List of British species with their food plants | List of British species with their food plants | Mike Hackston | Yes | Online | 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 |
| Lichens on twigs | This 8-panel fold-out chart is designed to enable you to identify lichens found on twigs and use them to assess local at | Wolseley, James & Alexander | No | Publication | View Edit |
| Lichens on twigs | This site provides a user-friendly guide to over 60 lichens which can be found growing on twigs. | Pat Wolseley; Diccon Alexander; Peter James; Anne Hume; Harry Taylor | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| Lichens of heaths and moors | This fold-out chart covers 62 of the species found on heaths and moors, organised into species that grow on the ground, | Dobson | No | Publication | View Edit |
| Lichen App for assessing Nitrogen pollution | This mobile app is a tool for assessing the status of nitrogen in your area by surveying lichen on trees. | CEH | Yes | Online, App | View Edit |
| Les myxomycètes | Information on 853 taxa of myxomycetes (530 of them illustrated by colour photographs) in two complementary volumes, one | Poulain, Michel, Marianne Meyer et Jean Bozonnet | No | Publication | View Edit |
| Les araignées de Belgique et de France (Spiders of Belgium and France) | An excellent photographic resource - particularly for quality photographs of genitalia. | Pierre Oger | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| Lepidoptera Dissection Group website | This website contains high-magnification images of the dissected genitalia of macro- and micro-moths. | Lepidoptera Dissection Group | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| LeafWatch | Help scientists track the spread of the horse-chestnut leaf miner moth with this simple, intuitive app.  | Natural Apptitude Ltd. | Yes | App | View Edit |
| Leafsnap | Leafsnap app for iPhones using visual recognition software to help identify species from photos of their leaves. | NHM | Yes | App | View Edit |
| Lawn wildflowers | Say no to the mow! Photo guide to the most commonly seen wildflowers in our garden lawns. | Plantlife | Yes | Online, PDF | View Edit |
| Land snails in the British Isles (2nd edition) | This fully illustrated AIDGAP identification guide should enable most beginners to identify all the land snails found in | Cameron and Riley | No | Publication | View Edit |
| Land mammals of Britain | With new colour illustrations for 2012, this guide covers all the main land mammals found in Britain. | Farley-Brown & Roberts | No | Publication | View Edit |
| Ladybirds (Coccinellidae) of Britain and Ireland | This atlas describes the distribution of ladybirds in Britain, Ireland, the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands, using d | Roy, Brown, Frost & Poland | No | Publication | View Edit |
| Ladybirds | This revised and updated edition of Ladybirds provides a succinct but comprehensive and accessible overview of the biolo | Helen E Roy, Peter MJ Brown, Richard F Comont, Remy L Poland, John J Sloggett, Sophie Allington, Chris Shields | No | Publication | View Edit |
| Ladybird larvae | Ladybird larvae are often found, but not well known, as they look so different from adult ladybirds. | Brown et al. | No | Publication | View Edit |
