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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BTO bird ID video - ringed plovers | A handsome little wader, with dapper plumage, runs along in front of you, pausing to daintily pick up morsels of food as | BTO | Yes | Online | View Edit |
BTO bird ID video - Identifying Linnet and Twite | Linnets are familiar birds, but their scarcer cousins Twite are always a good find. | BTO | Yes | Online | View Edit |
BTO Bird ID - Corvids | A black crow flies over - but is it a Crow, a Rook or even a Raven? | BTO | Yes | Online | View Edit |
Getting to grips with warblers video: Chiffchaff Vs Willow Warbler | Listen to Chiffchaff and Willow Warbler songs | BTO | Yes | Online | View Edit |
BTO bird ID video - yellow coloured wagtails | When is a yellow wagtail not a Yellow Wagtail? | BTO | Yes | Online | View Edit |
BTO Bird ID video - Scoters | Scoters are known to most of us as winter visitors, usually far off shore. | BTO | Yes | Online | View Edit |
BTO Bird ID video - petrels | Petrels are seldom-seen, unfamiliar birds to many of us, but both species Storm Petrel and Leach's Petrel are actua | BTO | Yes | Online | View Edit |
BTO Bird ID video - Curlew and Whimbrel | Curlew is a familiar wader, found in wild habitats around the UK. | BTO | Yes | Online | View Edit |
BTO Bird ID - Sanderling & Curlew Sandpiper | In the UK in late Summer some may be daunted by the prospect of identifying individual species in frequent groups of sma | BTO | Yes | Online | View Edit |
BTO Bird ID video - Small Breeding Grebes | Small grebes in summer are gloriously-coloured birds, but two of the three species are unfamiliar to most. | BTO | Yes | Online | View Edit |
Know your Chats | This identification video looks at Whinchat, Stonechat and Wheatear. | BTO | Yes | Online | View Edit |
BTO bird ID videos - dabbling ducks | Ducks are usually easy to identify, but the females can be more challenging. | BTO | Yes | Online | View Edit |
BTO Bird ID video - Knot and Dunlin | Telling winter waders apart can be daunting. | BTO | Yes | Online | View Edit |
Getting to grips with warblers: Reed Warbler Vs Sedge Warbler | In this film, part of a series aimed at helping with the tricky task of identifying warblers, we take a look at Reed and | BTO | Yes | Online | View Edit |
BTO Bird ID video - diving ducks | Dabbling ducks are so familiar, but there is also a group of common ducks that actively dive on freshwater for food. | BTO | Yes | Online | View Edit |
BTO Bird ID - Pigeons | Not all pigeons are Woodpigeons - honest! | BTO | Yes | Online | View Edit |
BTO Bird ID video - Redwing and Fieldfare | These two winter thrushes are easily told from each other. | BTO | Yes | Online | View Edit |
BTO Bird ID video - Goldcrest & Firecrest | The tiny Goldcrest, is a common year-round bird, found mainly in woodland and gardens. | BTO | Yes | Online | View Edit |
BTO Bird ID video - Iceland and Glaucous Gulls | This identification video tackles the difficult pair of gulls, Iceland and Glaucous. | BTO | Yes | Online | View Edit |
Taking a look at terns: Roseate, Sandwich and Little Tern | This video rounds up the identification of other Terns - Roseate, Sandwich and Little Tern. | BTO | Yes | Online | View Edit |
BTO Bird ID video - Grey & Golden Plovers | Can you tell the silver from the gold? | BTO | Yes | Online | View Edit |
Know your thrushes - Song and Mistle | Song and Mistle Thrush are two garden species that are readily confused; both are grey brown in appearance; both have a | BTO | Yes | Online | View Edit |
BTO Bird ID - Goosander and Red-breasted Merganser | Identifying the two large sawbills, Goosander and Red-breasted Merganser, can be pretty straight-forward when confronted | BTO | Yes | Online | View Edit |
BTO Bird ID video - Kestrel and Merlin | This film looks at two often confused falcons, the Kestrel and Merlin, and discusses the key features for separating the | BTO | Yes | Online | View Edit |
BTO Bird ID video - Water Pipit and Rock Pipit | This Bird ID focuses on separating the UK-resident Rock Pipit from the relatively rare Water Pipit, and both from the ub | BTO | Yes | Online | View Edit |
BTO Bird ID video - Goshawk and Sparrowhawk | All birders, whatever their skill level and experience, will struggle on occasion with separating Sparrowhawk and Goshaw | BTO | Yes | Online | View Edit |
BTO bird ID video - peregrines | A truly iconic species, tales of Peregrine stoop speeds and its claim to be the fastest bird on Earth are familiar, but | BTO | Yes | Online | View Edit |
BTO bird ID video - godwits | Godwits are large, elegant waders and relatively common in the right habitats at certain times of year. | BTO | Yes | Online | View Edit |
BTO Bird ID video - Meadow Pipit, Tree Pipit & Skylark | A small brown streaky bird launches into the air in front of you, singing its heart out, but is it a Meadow Pipit, Tree | BTO | Yes | Online | View Edit |
BTO Bird ID video - Skuas | Identifying skuas passing offshore in late summer is one of the great challenges of bird ID. | BTO | Yes | Online | View Edit |
BTO Bird ID video - Great & Lesser Spotted Woodpeckers | Are you unsure of the identity of a black and white woodpecker coming to your garden feeder? | BTO | Yes | Online | View Edit |
BTO Bird ID video - Little Egret and Great White Egret | 25 years ago the sighting of any White Heron in the UK would have been greeted with excitement. | BTO | Yes | Online | View Edit |
BTO Bird ID video - Wood and Green Sandpipers | In this BTO identification film we look at the tricky pairing of Wood and Green Sandpipers. | BTO | Yes | Online | View Edit |
BTO Bird ID video - Green finches in your garden | Not all green finches are Greenfinches! | BTO | Yes | Online | View Edit |
BTO Bird ID video - Common shanks | Redshank are common, familiar (and very noisy) waders found, year-round, on our coastal habitats as well as inland durin | BTO | Yes | Online | View Edit |
BTO Bird ID video - Hirundines and Swift | With their swept back wings and aerial lifestyle hirundines (Swallow, Sand and House Martins) and the similar, but unrel | BTO | Yes | Online | View Edit |
BTO Bird ID video - Common sparrows & Reed Bunting | Sparrows are not just sparrows - are they House Sparrows or Tree Sparrows? | BTO | Yes | Online | View Edit |
Telling apart Marsh and Willow Tits | Of the more common species in the UK, Marsh and Willow Tit probably present one of the more difficult ID challenges. | BTO | Yes | Online | View Edit |
Getting to grips with warblers: Whitethroat and Lesser Whitethroat | In the fourth of our series of videos aimed at helping with the tricky task of identifying warblers, we take a look at W | BTO | Yes | Online | View Edit |
BTO Bird ID video - Kittiwake and Other Small Gulls | Young Kittiwakes have a distinctive wing pattern, but several sought-after rarer species have similar markings - how can | BTO | Yes | Online | View Edit |
Sorting Short-eared and Long-eared Owls | As difficult species go, the Long and Short-eared Owl pairing are amongst the most challenging to identify, especially i | BTO | Yes | Online | View Edit |
Garden bumblebees - how to recognise and record them | A guide to enable you to identify and record the bumblebees that you see using your garden. | BTO and Bumblebee Conservation Trust | Yes | Online, PDF | View Edit |
Guide to bees of Britain | Produced in partnership with Buglife, this 8-page chart shows 28 species of bee, most of which can commonly be seen flyi | Buglife, O'Toole & Shields | No | Publication | View Edit |
A guide to British mammal tracks and signs | Many British mammals are shy or nocturnal, which makes them difficult to see. | Bullion | No | Publication | View Edit |
Guide to Common Bumblebees | Quick pdf guide to the common species of bumblebee | Bumblebee Conservation Trust | Yes | View Edit | |
Identify a butterfly | Website containing photos and simple key based on colour, size and markings. | Butterfly Conservation | Yes | Online | 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 |
BSBI Handbook No 8 Pondweeds of Great Britain and Ireland | A substantial guide to the British species of Potamogeton, Groenlandia and Ruppia, with an excellent introductory sectio | C. D. Preston | No | Publication | View Edit |
RES Handbook Vol 4 Part 8a. Coleoptera. Staphylinidae. Section (a) Piestinae to Euaesthetinae | THE family Staphylinidae contains in the British Isles about 950 species, that is to say about one-quarter of the total | C. E. Tottenham | Yes | Online, PDF | View Edit |
Hybrid Flora of the British Isles | This book provides detailed accounts of the 909 hybrids reliably recorded in the wild in the British Isles. | C.A. Stace, C.D. Preston & D.A. Pearman | No | Publication | View Edit |