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: biolinks@field-studies-council.org.
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| UK Butterflies | Identification guides (photo based) to UK butterflies, arranged by family. | Yes | Online, PDF | View Edit | |
| UK Dragonflies & Damselflies | This Facebook group is to enjoy and share information about those species of Dragonflies & Damselflies which are fou | Yes | Online | View Edit | |
| Britain's Orchids: A Field Guide to the Orchids of Great Britain and Ireland WILDGuide | ISBN: 9780691177618 Published: 2020 Covering more than fifty species as well as hybrids and variants, this is an en | No | Publication | View Edit | |
| Wild berry (& other fruit) spotter’s sheet | Photo guide to the most commonly seen berries and fruiting trees and shrubs in hedgerows. | Yes | Online, PDF | View Edit | |
| Key for the identification of British species of Erirhinidae | The species of this family are weevils and were formerly treated as a subfamily of Curculionidae. | No | View Edit | ||
| Bristletail.net | An online resource for the bristletails, (Archeognatha, Zygentoma and Diplura), interesting and often overlooked inverte | Yes | Online | View Edit | |
| Fossil Explorer | Fossil Explorer is a field guide to the common fossils of Britain and will help you identify fossils based on where you | Yes | App | View Edit | |
| The Freshwater Algal Flora of the British Isles with DVD-ROM: An Identification Guide to Freshwater and Terrestrial Algae | An indispensable guide to over 2,400 species of freshwater and terrestrial algae of the British Isles. | David M. John (Editor), Brian A. Whitton (Editor), Alan J. Brook (Editor) | No | Publication | View Edit |
| An illustrated key to the cuckoo wasps (Hymenoptera, Chrysididae) of the Nordic and Baltic countries, with description of a new species | An extremely well illustrated, with high resolution colour photographs, key and descriptions of species from Nordic and | Juho Paukkunen, Alexander Berg, Villu Soon, Frode Ødegaard, Paolo Rosa. | Yes | Online, PDF | View Edit |
| RES Handbook Vol 10 Part 7. Diptera - Hippoboscidae and Nycteribiidae (Keds, Flat-Flies and Bat-Flies) | The Hippoboscidae, Nycteribiidae and Streblidae are families of Diptera that have been combined under the name Pupipara. | A. M. Hutson | Yes | Online, PDF | View Edit |
| RES Handbook Vol 9 Part 3. Diptera - Nematocera. Mycetophilidae (Bolitophilinae, Ditomyiinae, Diadocidiinae, Keroplatinae, Sciophilinae and Manotinae) | The Fungus-gnats (Mycetophilidae) are a large family of terrestrial Nematocera, usually with a compact hump-backed appea | A. M. Hutson, D. M. Ackland and L. N. Kidd | Yes | Online, PDF | View Edit |
| BSBI Handbook No 9 Dandelions of Great Britain and Ireland | Descriptions of 235 species of Taraxacum , including microspecies, most of them illustrated by silhouettes of herbarium | A.A. Dudman and A.J. Richards | No | Publication | View Edit |
| Solitary Bees: Identification and Nesting Ecology | This is one of FSC BioLinks informal virtual meet ups (VMUs) on Zoom which we've started doing in response to the C | Aaron Bhambra | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| Bat Droppings Guide | A guide to the droppings of British bats, including photos and diagrams illustrating the shape and size differences betw | Acer Ecology | 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 | |
| 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 |
| 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 | |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 | |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| British Hoverflies | Illustrated identification keys, species account, including, description, habitat, distribution, flight period. | Alan Stubbs and Steven Falk | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Hoverflies of the British Isles | Poster pictorial guide to commonly seen hoverflies of the British Isles | Andy Slater | 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 |
| 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 |
| Herptile ID | Identification guide to amphibian and reptile species of the British Isles. | ARC | No | App | View Edit |
| The Vespoid Wasps | RES Handbook Vol 6 Part 6. | Archer | No | Publication | 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 | |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Centipedes | Aside from the insects, centipedes (Class Chilopoda) are some of the commonest larger arthropods found in gardens, waste | Barber | 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 |
| The adult Trichoptera (caddisflies) of Britain and Ireland | RES Handbook Vol 1 Part 17. | Barnard & Ross | No | Publication | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
