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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| Guide to grassland plants 1 | Featuring colour illustrations of 54 species, this 12-page fold-out chart covers plants commonly found on lowland acid a | Gulliver, Gulliver & Roberts | No | Publication | View Edit |
| Guide to orchids | With colour paintings covering 69 species, subspecies and hybrids, this chart covers all the orchids that you are likely | Gulliver & Gulliver | No | Publication | View Edit |
| A guide to animals on Schedule 9 of the Wildlife and Countryside Act | Produced in partnership with RSPCA and Natural England as a compact reference source for people working with wildlife, t | Grogan | No | Publication | View Edit |
| Woodlice and Waterlice (Isopoda: Oniscidea & Asellota) in Britain and Ireland | 4 species of waterlice and 40 species of woodlice occur outdoors in Britain and Ireland. | Gregory | No | Publication | View Edit |
| Halacarid mites | Halacarid mites are minute arachnids to be found crawling in the substratum of marine and brackish-water habitats throug | Green & Macquitty | No | Publication | View Edit |
| Guide to floodplain meadows | Produced in association with the Floodplain Meadows Partnership, this fold-out chart features illustrations of 48 key fl | Gowing, Wallace, Rothero & Roberts | No | Publication | View Edit |
| Commensal and parasitic copepods associated with marine invertebrates (2nd ed.) | This Synopsis covers species known to live parasitically or commensally with marine invertebrates. | Gotto | No | Publication | View Edit |
| Opiliones in the UK and Continental Europe | Useful website with information on the identification of harvestmen in the UK and Europe including photographs and speci | Gordon Spears | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| The Smaller Moths of Shropshire | Based on approximately 18,500 records covering over 800 species, this is the first ever published atlas of the smaller m | Godfrey Blunt | No | Publication | View Edit |
| Guide to mosses and liverworts of woodlands | Mosses and liverworts can form quite an extensive part of the woodland flora, carpeting the ground and covering tree tr | Godfrey | No | Publication | View Edit |
| Guide to mosses and liverworts of towns and gardens | Although small, mosses and liverworts can be found nearly everywhere. | Godfrey | No | Publication | View Edit |
| Sipunculans | The phylum Sipuncula comprises a small but distinct group of exclusively marine animals, with 17 genera and about 150 sp | Gibbs | No | Publication | View Edit |
| Pseudoscorpions (Arthropoda, Arachnida): keys and notes for the identification of the species | This Linnean Society synopsis is out of print but remains the most important literature for the identification of Brtiti | Gerald Legg, Richard Evan Jones | No | Publication | View Edit |
| Chelifer.com | Gerald Legg's Pseudoscorpion web pages. | Gerald Legg | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| Handbook of the Bees of the British Isles (2-Volume Set) | Handbook of the Bees of the British Isles provides a comprehensive and authoritative account of the current state of kno | George R Else and Mike Edwards | No | Publication | View Edit |
| Polychaetes: British Amphinomida, Spintherida and Eunicida | Polychaetes are one of the most widespread, abundant and diverse elements of the British - and indeed the world - marine | George & Hartmann-Schröder | No | Publication | View Edit |
| Identification key to the subfamilies of Ichneumonidae (Hymenoptera) | This key to ichneumonid subfamilies should be regarded as a test version and feedback will be much appreciated (emails t | Gavin Broad | Yes | Online, PDF | View Edit |
| Grasses | Covering 30 species, this fold-out chart should enable everyone to put a name to some of the most common species of gras | Gardener & Roberts | No | Publication | View Edit |
| BSBI Handbook No 7 Roses of Great Britain and Ireland | Descriptions of 13 native and 9 introduces taxa of Rosa. Briefer descriptions of 76 hybrids. | G.G. Graham and A.L. Primavesi | No | Publication | View Edit |
| RES Handbook Vol 8 Part 3d i. Hymenoptera, Proctotrupoidea. Diapriidae subfamily Diapriinae | In presenting this handbook on the subfamily Diapriinae I have now dealt with all the British species of Diapriidae. | G. E. J. Nixon | Yes | Online, PDF | View Edit |
| RES Handbook Vol 8 Part 3d ii. Hymenoptera. Proctotrupoidea. Diapriidae subfamily Belytinae | THE Diapriidae, as interpreted by Kieffer in Das Tierreich, Diapriidae (1916), are divided into two subfamilies, the Dia | G. E. J. Nixon | Yes | Online, PDF | View Edit |
| Guide to amphibians | This guide will help you to identify all the amphibians you are likely to find in UK ponds | FSC, Natural History Museum, ARC Trust & OPAL | Yes | View Edit | |
| Common seashells | This is a new chart covering common seashells found around the shores of Britain and Ireland. | FSC & Shields | No | Publication | View Edit |
| FSC Identify | For FSC employees only. | FSC | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| Photographic atlas and identification key to the robber flies of Germany | This photo atlas and ID guide for Asilidae – robber-flies - of Europe has more than 1,900 photographs of 82 robber-fly s | Fritz Geller-Grimm | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| British Earthworms and How To Identify Them | Useful for historic context only (published in 1923). Taxonomy very out of date. Out of print. | Friend, Hilderic | No | Publication | View Edit |
| Frans Janssen's Flickr Gallery | Flickr Gallery showing photos and descriptions of many European springtails (Collembola) | Frans Janssen | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| The Wildflower Key | This wild flower identification guide was first published in 1981 and is still widely accepted as the best of its kind f | Francis Rose and Clare O'Reilly | No | Publication | View Edit |
| Colour Identification Guide to Grasses, Sedges, Rushes and Ferns | 240pp. 62 colour plates. Detailed descriptions, keys and clear illustrations of some 400 species. | Francis Rose | No | Publication | View Edit |
| Seasearch Guide to Seaweeds of Britain and Ireland | British and Irish shallow seas contain an astonishing 7% of the world's seaweed species, around 700 different seawe | Francis Bunker, Juliet Brodie, Christine Maggs, Anne Bunker | No | Publication | View Edit |
| Atlas of the Predaceous Water Beetles (Hydradephaga) of Britain and Ireland | This atlas concerns the predaceous water beetles, or Hydradephaga – the whirligig beetles (Gyrinidae), the crawling wate | Foster, Bilton & Nelson | No | Publication | View Edit |
| Keys to adults of the water beetles of Britain and Ireland (Part 2) | RES Handbook vol 4 Part 5b. | Foster, Bilton & Friday | No | Publication | View Edit |
| Key to adults of the water beetles of Britain and Ireland (Part 1) | RES handbook vol 4 part 5 (2nd edition). | Foster & Friday | No | Publication | View Edit |
| Checklist: Hymenoptera | RES Handbook vol 11 part 4. Checklist of the families, genera and species in the order Hymenoptera. | Fitton et al | No | Publication | View Edit |
| Features of the Pennine Way | Produced in partnership with the Countryside Agency and Natural England, this unique fold-out chart is aimed at Pennine | Field Studies Council | 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 |
| Seasons | From catkins in spring to redwings in winter, this new fold-out chart shows you the wildlife to look out for throughout | Farley-Brown & Norman | No | Publication | View Edit |
| Guide to summer coastal birds | From cormorants to kittiwakes, and guillemots to gulls, this 8-panel laminated fold-out chart features 28 of the birds y | Farley-Brown & Langman | No | Publication | View Edit |
| Garden bugs and beasties | Head down your garden and peer amongst the flowers, grasses and plant pots, and you will find an amazing range of little | Farley Brown, Shields & Langman | No | Publication | View Edit |
| Playing field plants | Playing fields can be a great place for science investigations. | Farley & Roberts | No | Publication | View Edit |
| RES Handbook Vol 10 Part 4a i. Diptera - Cyclorrhapha. Calyptrata (1) Section (a) Tachinidae and Calliphoridae (Tachinidae) | THE Calyptrata (Calypterata, Calypterae), containing such groups as dung flies , cabbage flies, house flies, blue bottle | F. I. van Emden | Yes | Online, PDF | View Edit |
| RES Handbook Vol 10 Part 4a ii. Diptera - Cyclorrhapha. Calyptrata (1) Section (a) Tachinidae and Calliphoridae (Calliphoridae) | Like the Tachinids the Calliphoridae have a well-developed ptilinal suture, only three antennal segments with a dorsal a | F. I. van Emden | Yes | Online, PDF | View Edit |
| Various keys to robberflies | Collection and links to various keys to robberflies, including LUCID and conventional keys to the different tribes, fami | F. Geller-Grimm | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| RES Handbook Vol 1 Part 16. Siphonaptera | FLEAS are small (1-8 mm long), wingless insects with a holometabolous metamorphosis (egg-larva-pupa-adult); their bodies | F. G. A. M. Smit | Yes | Online, PDF | View Edit |
| RES Handbook Vol 5 Part 9. Coleoptera | THE families herein dealt with are not in themselves a complete family series but form part of the Heteromera (Cucujoide | F. D. Buck | Yes | Online, PDF | View Edit |
| RES Handbook Vol 4 Part 3. Coleoptera. Hydradephaga | This might be described as an abstract of British Water Beetles published by the Ray Society in 1940 and 1950 as most of | F. Balfour-Browne | Yes | Online, PDF | View Edit |
| RES Handbook Vol 5 Part 5a. Coleoptera. Rhizophagidae | The family Rhizophagidae (Superfamily Cucujoidea) comprises four subfamilies (Crowson, 1955), two of which are represent | Enid R. Peacock | Yes | Online, PDF | View Edit |
| Animal Photos | Website showing photos of animals, focusing on wildlife. | Elizabeth Barrett | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| Plants common on sand dunes | Arranged by habitat with distance from high-tide level, this chart shows 43 common species of plants found in sand dunes | Edmondson & Roberts | No | Publication | View Edit |
| Araneae Spiders of Europe | An excellent online resource on European spider identification. | Editors - Wolfgang Nentwig, Theo Blick, Daniel Gloor, Ambros Hänggi & Christian Kropf | Yes | Online | View Edit |
