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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| Key for the identification of British Anthribidae | A family of weevils with only ten British species, one of them only found in domestic situations and now very rare due t | Mike Hackston | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| Keeping frog tadpoles | Want to watch tadpoles develop into frogs? This illustrated 8-panel laminated fold-out chart is int | Oxford & Sutton | No | Publication | View Edit |
| June Wildflowers Spotter’s Sheet | Photo guide to the most commonly seen wildflowers in June. | Plantlife | Yes | Online, PDF | View Edit |
| July Wildflowers Spotter's Sheet | Guide to the commonest wildflowers seen in July. | Plantlife | Yes | View Edit | |
| iSpot Bayesian keys | Various online multi-access keys for identifying British wildlife. | Various | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| iSpot | iSpot is a website aimed at helping anyone identify anything in nature. | Open University | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| iRecord Ladybirds | The Centre for Ecology and Hydrology and the Nature Locator team have joined forces to help map species of ladybird with | Natural Apptitude Ltd. | Yes | App | View Edit |
| iRecord Grasshoppers | Orthoptera and related insects are not well recorded in the UK and so scientists have little information about their dis | CEH | Yes | App | View Edit |
| iRecord Dragonflies | The iRecord Dragonfly app helps you to identify the dragonflies and damselflies that you find and lets you record your s | British Dragonfly Society, CEH/BRC and others | Yes | Online, App | View Edit |
| iRecord Butterflies | Butterfly recording is the foundation for protecting these beautiful creatures. | Natural Apptitude Ltd. | Yes | App | View Edit |
| Intro to Ladybird Larvae ID | This is one of FSC BioLinks informal virtual meet ups (VMUs) on Zoom which we've started doing in response to the C | Helen Roy and Peter Brown | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| Intertidal marine isopods | The Second Edition of this iconic Synopsis, replacing Naylor (1972). This new edition of the Synopsis has been | Naylor & Brandt | No | Publication | View Edit |
| Interactive guide to common woody plants of the UK | The key provided here identifies the trees, shrubs and woody climbers found in the wild in the UK, whether native or int | Pier Luigi Nimis, Bob Press, Stefano Martellos & Andrea Moro | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| Insects of the British Cow-dung Community | This book is intended to provide students possessing little or no entomological training with the basic taxonomic abilit | Peter Skidmore | Yes | Online, PDF | View Edit |
| Illustrated key to the families of British Springtails (Collembola) | This new AIDGAP guide, in the fold-out chart style, is an illustrated key to the families of Collembola in Britain. | Dallimore & Shaw | No | Publication | View Edit |
| Illustrated key to the British False Scorpions (Pseudoscorpions) | Most people who see a false scorpion for the first time are fascinated. | Legg & Farr-Cox | No | Publication | View Edit |
| Identikit Waders of Britain and Ireland | A multi-access digital identification key covering 28 wader species known to occur in Britain and Ireland on a regular b | Stephen Docker and Keith Offord | Yes | Online, App | View Edit |
| Identikit Sphagnum Mosses (Mobile Version) | Multi access key to UK and Irish Sphagnum Mosses (trial version) created by Lyn Jones using Identikit | Professor Lyn Jones, University of Dundee | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| Identikit Plant Families | A prototype multi-access digital identification key covering 14 plant families which, between them, contain approx 67% o | Stephen Docker | Yes | Online, App | View Edit |
| Identikit Mosses | Multi access key to UK and Irish Mosses (trial version) created by Lyn Jones using Identikit | Professor Lyn Jones, University of Dundee | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| Identikit Macrofungi Genera (Gills) | A prototype multi-access digital identification key covering over 200 gilled macrofungi genera known to occur in Britain | Stephen Docker and Geoffrey Kibby | Yes | Online, App | View Edit |
| Identikit Beetle Families | A prototype multi-access digital identification key covering 102 beetle families known to occur in Britain and Ireland. | Stephen Docker | Yes | Online, App | View Edit |
| Identifying the British species of Leptophlebiidae | There are three genera of Leptophlebiidae present in the British Isles: Habrophlebia; Leptophlebia; and Paraleptophlebia | Craig Macadam | Yes | Online, PDF | View Edit |
| Identifying beetles | The stated aims of Mark Telfer's Beetles website are: provide ‘cribs’ to supplement, clarify, correct and up-date e | Mark Telfer | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| Identifying bee flies in genus Bombylius | Identification guide to the four British species of bee fly. | Martin Harvey | Yes | Online, PDF | View Edit |
| Identify your bluebells | Information on how to distinguish UK native bluebells from non-native species and hybrids. | NHM | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| Identify a Euphrasia | An online multi-access key to Eyebrights. | BSBI | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| Identify a butterfly | Website containing photos and simple key based on colour, size and markings. | Butterfly Conservation | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| Identification of soldierflies and allies | Summarises the available resources for identifying soldierflies and allies - Soldierflies, Stratiomyidae; Horseflies, Ta | Martin Harvey | Yes | Online, PDF, Publication | View Edit |
| Identification of Freshwater Invertebrates to Species Level: | A distance learning course from FBA and EA. Currently not running as a tutor lead course, but downloading of th | Various mainly Richard Chadd | Yes | Online, PDF | 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 |
| 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 |
| Identification Guide to the Inshore Fish of the British Isles | A comprehensive photographic guide to the coastal fish of the British Isles. | Peter Henderson (author), Robin Somes (Editor) | No | Publication | View Edit |
| Identification guide for selected marine non-native species | A guide to 36 non-native seaweeds and marine animals produced by the MBA with funding from the Interreg IVA ‘3C’ capital | Bishop, J. | Yes | 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 |
| 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 | |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 Autumn seeds | Beautiful illustrations of 12 distinctive seeds to look for during Autumn. | Peter Marren, Felicity Rose Cole | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| Hoverflies of the British Isles | Poster pictorial guide to commonly seen hoverflies of the British Isles | Andy Slater | Yes | Online | 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 |
| Herptile ID | Identification guide to amphibian and reptile species of the British Isles. | ARC | No | App | View Edit |
| Heathlands in the East Midlands | A guide to the reptiles, invertebrates, birds and plants of heathland. | OPAL | Yes | Online, PDF | View Edit |
| Hawthorns - video ID key | A video guide (short YouTube film) to the diagnostic features of the native Hawthorns and its hybrid in the UK to aid in | Lliam Rooney/BSBI | Yes | Online | 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 |
| Harvestmen of Britain & Ireland | There are some 30 different species of harvestmen (Opiliones) in the UK. | Richards, P & Burkmar, R. | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| Harvestmen in Nottinghamshire | A photographic guide to the Harvestmen of Nottinghamshire found at the excellent Eakringbirds.com website. | Trevor and Dilys Pendleton | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| Harvestmen fold-out chart | 12-panel laminated fold-out chart covers the adults of the harvestmen found in the field in the British Isles. | Paul Richards; FSC Publications | No | Publication | View Edit |
| Harvestmen | This 12-panel laminated fold-out chart covers the adults of the harvestmen found in the field in the British Isles. | Richards | No | Publication | View Edit |
