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.
Displaying 51 - 100 of 764.| Title | Description | Author(s) | Free | Availability | |
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| Ants | This paperback published by Pelagic Publishing is a reprint edition of the original, now out-of-print, paperback by Rich | Skinner, Gary J | No | Publication | View Edit |
| Aphids - Aphidinae (Macrosiphini) | RES Handbook vol 2 part 7. | Blackman | No | Publication | View Edit |
| Apples: a field guide | The book is intended to help identify that unknown apple growing in your garden or in the park; to help you choose which | Michael Clark | No | Publication | View Edit |
| April Wildflowers Spotter’s Sheet | Photo guide to the most commonly seen wildflowers in April. | Plantlife | Yes | Online, PDF | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Athecate hydroids and their medusae | Suiable for amateur and professsional naturalists, this new Synopsis provides a concise account of the morphology, habit | Schuchert | No | Publication | View Edit |
| Atlas of Dragonflies in Britain and Ireland | Produced in partnership with the British Dragonfly Society and Dragonfly Ireland, this full colour hardback book (approx | Cham, Nelson, Prentice, Smallshire & Taylor | No | Publication | View Edit |
| Atlas of the Fleas (Siphonaptera) of Britain and Ireland | Fleas (Siphonaptera) are wingless insects that are usually found in the nests, or on the bodies, of a wide range of mamm | Bob George | 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 |
| Badhamia slime moulds | This beta phase identification resource was created by Sophie Trice for the NHM Identification Trainers for the Future P | Sophie Trice | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| Barnacles | Barnacles are familiar objects to mariners and seaside tourists. | Southwood | No | Publication | 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 |
| 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 |
| Bats in flight | Telling the different bat species apart by sight can be difficult, but this guide outlines key details to look | Natural History Museum | No | View Edit | |
| Bats of Britain, Europe & Northwest Africa | ISPN: 9781408105313 Comprehensive book covering all species of bat in the UK (and even the rest of Europe and North Afr | Christian Dietz, Otto von Helverson & Dietmar Nill | No | Publication | 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 |
| Bee orchids and their relatives | Guide to UK bee orchids. | OPAL | Yes | Online, PDF, Publication | View Edit |
| Beetle fauna of Germany | An amazingly rich website containing superb photos of a huge range of beetle species. | Benisch, C. | Yes | Online | 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 |
| Beetles attracted to Moth traps | A free online guide, showing UK beetle species commonly attracted to light traps. | Dan Asaw | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| Beginners guide to identifying British mammal bones | This beginner’s guide focusses on the twelve most prevalent wild and domestic mammals in the UK. | Nicola Prehn, Florin Feneru and John Rochester | Yes | Online, PDF | View Edit |
| Beginner’s guide to identifying British ichneumonids | Ichneumonids, species of the family Ichneumonidae, are difficult to identify because so many look similar. | Nicola Prehn and Chris Raper | Yes | Online, PDF | View Edit |
| Biology And Identification Of Intertidal Polyzoa | THE Polyzoa are sedentary aquatic animals which form colonies by budding. | J. S. RYLAND | Yes | Online, PDF | View Edit |
| Bird ID - Easy Bird Identification | Comprehensive online guide to UK birds, extensive database of information on birds and enables you to quickly identify b | birdid.co.uk | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| Bird identification videos | Short videos from BTO. | British Trust for Ornithology | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| Bird identifier | Simple online key to UK birds. | RSPB | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| Bostrichidae Key to British Species | Bostrichidae Key to British Species by Mike Hackston, derived from the German key by Arved Lompe. | Mike Hackston | Yes | Online, PDF | View Edit |
| Botanical Keys - Find Wild Flowers | The Botanical Society for Britian and Ireland (BSBI) hosts this on line plant key produced by one of their members. The | Quentin Groom | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| Botanical keys and how to use them - Facebook group | A closed group (anyone can request to join). | Kevin Widdowson | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| Brambles (Rubus) of Britain and Ireland | Facebook group devoted to the identification and study of UK brambles | David-Müzeyyen Merrick | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| Bristletail.net | An online resource for the bristletails, (Archeognatha, Zygentoma and Diplura), interesting and often overlooked inverte | Yes | Online | View Edit | |
| Bristol University Tick ID | This site includes online dichotomous keys for ticks of the family Ixodidae (hard ticks). | Richard Wall, University of Bristol | Yes | Online | 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 |
| Britain's Insects: A field guide to the insects of Great Britain and Ireland WILDGuide | ISBN: 9780691179278 Published: 23/03/2021 Britain’s Insects is an innovative, up-to-date, carefully designed and be | Paul D. Brock | No | Publication | 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 | |
| British birds of prey | Produced in conjunction with the Hawk and Owl Trust, this chart will help you to identify birds of prey in flight in the | Hawk and Owl Trust | No | Publication | View Edit |
| British Bugs | Online identification guide (photo based) to UK bugs, arranged by family. | Dr Joe Botting & Dr Tristan Bantock | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| British bumblebee identification guide | Online identification guide to UK bumblebees using simple key based on colour. | NHM | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| British Caterpillar Galleries | These caterpillar (larva) picture galleries contain identification photos of many of the most distinctive caterpillars o | Steve Ogden (Wildlife Insight) | 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 |
| 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 |
| British Froghoppers IdentiKit | This visualisation and multi-access key was built on a knowledge-base for British froghoppers. | Howells, Nia | Yes | Online, App | View Edit |
| British grasshoppers and allied insects | 8-panel fold-out chart covers the adults of the grasshoppers, crickets, bush crickets, ground hoppers, cockroaches, earw | Marshall & Ovenden | 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 |
| British leafminers | From the homepage: "This site is the result of an on-going project, set up to photograph and record all the leaf mi | leafmines.co.uk | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| British Lichens Species Gallery | Website designed to help with lichen identification by providing good photos of lichens that are found in the British Is | Mike Sutcliffe | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| British Lonchaeidae | RES Handbook vol 10 Part 15. | MacGowan & Rotheray | No | Publication | View Edit |
| British Marine Mollusca Facebook Group | For discussion, sharing of information and people who are rather obsessed with British Marine Mollusca.  | Conchological Society of Britain and Ireland | Yes | Online | View Edit |
