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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| A Key to the Land Snails of the Flatford area, Suffolk | THE Field Centre and its surroundings at Flatford Mill lie away from the East Anglian chalk, on quaternary drifts and al | ]. E. MORTON AND J. MACHIN | Yes | Online, PDF | View Edit |
| Common Bush-crickets and Grasshoppers | Online guide to common bush crickets, grasshoppers and groundhoppers. | www.orthoptera.org.uk// | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| Earwigs, cockroaches and stick-insects | An online guide to common earwigs, cockroaches and stick-insects | www.orthoptera.org.uk// | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| Guide to Garden Wildlife | Even the smallest garden can be an important haven for wildlife, and this essential guide will enable everyone to fully | Written and illustrated by Richard Lewington | No | Publication | View Edit |
| British Sawflies (Hymenoptera: Symphyta): a key to adults of the genera occurring in Britain | This AIDGAP field guide to sawflies provides identification keys to the adults of the 109 genera of sawflies occurring i | Wright | No | Publication | 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 |
| The Planthoppers and Leafhoppers of Britain and Ireland | Identification keys to all families and genera and all British and Irish species not recorded from Germany. | Wilson, M., Stewart, A., Biederman, R., Nickel, H., Niedringhaus, R. | No | Publication | 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 |
| Opiliones Wiki | Harvestmen of the world website containing crowd-sourced images and research | Wikia | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| Fleas (Siphonaptera) 2nd ed. | RES Handbook vol 1 part 16. | Whitaker | No | Publication | View Edit |
| Fleas (Siphonaptera) 2nd ed. | RES Handbook vol 1 part 16. | Whitaker | No | Publication | View Edit |
| British freshwater fishes and lampreys | The AIDGAP field guide contains keys to the freshwater fishes and lampreys found in the British Isles. | Wheeler | No | Publication | View Edit |
| Polychaetes: Interstitial families (2nd ed.) | The minute polychaetes that occur in the interstitial spaces within sandy marine sediments are a diverse phylogenetic as | Westheide | No | Publication | View Edit |
| Pseudoscorpions of the world | A world catalogue of Pseudoscorpions. | Western Australian Museum | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| Watford Coleoptera Group | A brilliant site for identifying British beetles. | Watford Coleoptera Group | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| Understanding Geography Fieldwork 2: The Central Business District | Central Business District is designed to support student-led field investigations in the CBD, and takes a structured rou | Warn & Holmes | No | Publication | View Edit |
| RES Handbook Vol 2 Part 2a. Hemiptera - Cicadomorpha (excluding Deltocephalinae and Typhlocybinae) | THE Auchenorhyncha are generally regarded as being divided into two series, the Cicadomorpha and the Fulgoromorpha: this | Walter J. Le Quesne | Yes | Online, PDF | View Edit |
| RES Handbook Vol 2 Part 2b. Hemiptera - Cicadomorpha - Deltocephalinae | This part deals with the subfamily Deltocephalinae, which includes 101 British species. | Walter J. Le Quesne | Yes | Online, PDF | View Edit |
| RES Handbook Vol 2 Part 3. Hemiptera - Fulgoromorpha | THE Auchenorhyncha are generally regarded as being divided into two series, the Fulgoromorpha and the Cicadomorpha: for | Walter J. Le Quesne | Yes | Online, PDF | View Edit |
| Phase 1 survey guide: Grassland and marsh | This FSC fold-out chart is designed to help you identify the indicator species needed to carry out a Phase 1 habitat sur | Wallace, Duffell & Harper | No | Publication | View Edit |
| BSBI species accounts | The species accounts available on the BSBI web page and provide information on identification, habitat, biogeography, ec | Walker, K.J. & Stroh, P.A. | Yes | Online, PDF | View Edit |
| RES Handbook Vol 2 Part 2c. Cicadellidae (Typhlocybinae) with a checklist of the British Auchenorhyncha (Hemiptera, Homoptera) | The Auchenorhyncha is generally regarded as being divided into two series, the Cicadomorpha and the Fulgoromorpha. | W. J. Le Quesne and K. R. Payne | Yes | Online, PDF | View Edit |
| A Key To The Genera Of The British Seaweeds | This key is developed from one used on various courses at the Marine Biology Station, Menai Bridge and at Dale Fort Fiel | W. Eifion Jones | Yes | Online, PDF | View Edit |
| RES Handbook Vol 1 Part 5. Dermaptera and Orthoptera | THE Orders Dermaptera and Orthoptera are usually treated together, as a matter of convenience, in dealing with limited f | W. D. Hincks | Yes | Online, PDF | 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 |
| UK Harvestmen (Opiliones) Facebook group | UK Harvestmen (Opiliones) Facebook group, with group members sharing photos, ID help and signposting to courses and addi | Various | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| iSpot Bayesian keys | Various online multi-access keys for identifying British wildlife. | Various | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| A key to families of British bugs (Insecta, Hemiptera) | This AIDGAP identification guide should enable non-specialists to identify the adults of most British bugs (Hemiptera) t | Unwin | No | Publication | View Edit |
| A key to the families of British Coleoptera (beetles) and Strepsiptera | This AIDGAP identification key will help non-specialists to identify all families of British beetles - of which there ar | Unwin | No | Publication | View Edit |
| Soil types: a field identification guide | This AIDGAP field guide is intended to help students to identify soils in the field in the British Isles. | Trudgill | No | Publication | View Edit |
| Orthosia (Quaker) Moth identification | March is a month neglected by many moth trappers. | Trevor and Dilys Pendleton | 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 |
| 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 |
| Guide to Difficult [moth] Species online | This web page allows you to download PDFs of the now out-of-print "British and Irish moths: an illustrated guide to | Townsend, M.C., CLifton, J., and Goodey, B. | Yes | View Edit | |
| The Dreaded Scopariinae – some notes on identification | You may think that all the Scoparia and Eudonia micro-moth species look the same! | Tony Davis | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| Flight Identification of European Passerines and Select Landbirds: An Illustrated and Photographic Guide WILDGuide | ISBN: 9780691177571 Published: 03/23/2021 A richly illustrated, state-of-the-art field guide for identifying Europe | Tomasz Cofta | No | Publication | View Edit |
| BSBI Handbook No 13 Grasses of the British Isles | ISBN 978‐0‐901158‐420 This new Handbook attempts to bridge the gap between the taxonomy of the 1980s and the new molec | Tom Cope & Alan Gray | No | Publication | View Edit |
| BSBI Handbook No 15 British Northern Hawkweeds | ISBN: 978090115845 There are 21 species in British Northern Hawkweeds (Hieracium section Alpestria), 16 of which occur | Tim C. G. Rich & Walter Scott | No | Publication | View Edit |
| A key to the major groups of terrestrial invertebrates | Second edition of this popular AIDGAP identification guide is designed to help non-specialists identify the larger (& | Tilling | No | Publication | View Edit |
| Owls and owl pellets | Produced in conjunction with the Hawk and Owl Trust, this chart is both an identification guide to owls and a practical | Thomas & Shields | No | Publication | View Edit |
| Our Guide to Newts found in the UK | All the information on the UKs Newts, includes their food, mating and hibernation habits as well as their protected stat | The Wild Outside | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| BSBI Handbook No 6 Crucifers | Standard reference for the identification of Cruciferae species in the British Isles. | T.C.G. Rich | No | Publication | View Edit |
| RES Handbook Vol 1 Part 7. Psocoptera | This Handbook is designed to give a general account of the external morphology of the Psocoptera, emphasizing those char | T. R. New | Yes | Online, PDF | View Edit |
| BSBI Handbook No 2 Umbellifers of The British Isles | ISPN: 9780901158024 Keys to, descriptions and line drawings of 73 British species. Drawings by Ann Farrer. | T. G .Tutin | No | Publication | View Edit |
| The Plant Crib | The Plant Crib (1998) evolved from earlier publications and was prepared to facilitate plant identification and recordin | T. C. G. Rich & A. C. Jermy (eds) | Yes | Online, PDF, Publication | View Edit |
| Cloud name trail | Produced in partnership with the Royal Meteorological Society, this laminated fold-out chart is a key to the major forms | Swain &Walker | No | Publication | View Edit |
| Understanding Geography Fieldwork 1: Statistics for Geographers | Aimed at GCSE and AS/A2, the Understanding Geography Fieldwork series of fold-out charts have been designed for independ | Sutton | No | Publication | View Edit |
| Online Identification Guide to the Birds of Britain and Europe | Beginners and advanced online keys. | surfbirds.com | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| A field key to the British Red Seaweeds | The larger seaweeds (marine ALGAE) are classified into four major groups according to the pigments (coloured compounds) t | Sue Hiscock | Yes | Online, PDF | View Edit |
| Britain's Hoverflies WILDGuide | ISBN: 9780691156590 Out of print Britain's Hoverflies is a beautifully illustrated photographic field guide to | Stuart Ball and Roger Morris | No | Publication | View Edit |
