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 151 - 200 of 764.| Title | Description | Author(s) | Free | Availability | |
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| 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 - 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 |
| BTO Bird ID video - Knot and Dunlin | Telling winter waders apart can be daunting. | 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 - 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 - Nightingale and Other Night Singers | Contrary to popular opinion, Nightingale is not the only bird that sings at night. | 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 - 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 - Redwing and Fieldfare | These two winter thrushes are easily told from each other. | BTO | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| BTO Bird ID video - Ring Ouzel and Blackbird | With Ring Ouzel migration about to reach its peak this wonderful thrush can turn up almost anywhere. | BTO | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| 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 - Scoters | Scoters are known to most of us as winter visitors, usually far off shore. | 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 - Skylark & Woodlark | Lauded by poets for their wonderful, uplifting song, larks are rather nondescript birds when seen. | BTO | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| BTO Bird ID video - Small black-headed gulls | A hooded gull in summer is likely to be the ubiquitous Black-headed Gull, but there are a couple of other species that s | 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 |
| BTO Bird ID video - Summer Buzzards | Common buzzard is a familiar bird, but in summer and during migration time there is always the chance of finding a Honey | 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 - Wild Swans | Every winter thousands of Whooper Swans from Iceland and Bewick’s Swans from Arctic Russia migrate into UK and Ireland t | BTO | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| BTO Bird ID video - Winter Auks | Summer Auks, in breeding plumage, at the shore or near to their colonies are relatively easy to identify. | BTO | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| BTO Bird ID video - Winter Divers | Divers in winter can be confusing and difficult to identify. | BTO | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| BTO Bird ID video - Winter Grebes | From Great Crested and Red-necked to Slavonian and Black-necked, separating grebes in winter plumage can be challenging. | 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 - yellow coloured wagtails | When is a yellow wagtail not a Yellow Wagtail? | 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 |
| Bugs on bushes | Aimed at upper primary ages and above, this 12-page laminated fold-out chart is a name trail designed to help children i | Bebbington & Bebbington | No | Publication | View Edit |
| Bumblebees of Britain & Ireland | App that provides a comprehensive resource to help identify bumblebees in the field. | NatureGuides, Bumblebee Conservation Trust, Habitat Aid, Richard Lewington | No | App | View Edit |
| Bumblebees of Norfolk | As an aid to identification, the Norfolk bumblebees are presented here as three sets of six: • six common species which | David Richmond | Yes | Online, PDF | View Edit |
| Butterflies of Britain | Looking for an identification guide / chart to British butterflies? This 8-panel laminated guide / chart - our | Bebbington & Lewington | No | Publication | View Edit |
| Butterflies of Britain and Ireland | A comprehensive interactive field guide covering all 61 butterfly species that regularly occur in Britain and Ireland. | Nature Guides Ltd | No | App | View Edit |
| Butterflies of Norfolk | Photographic guide with brief notes on status in Norfolk | Norfolk & Norwich Nat. Soc. | Yes | Online, PDF | View Edit |
| Butterfly ID Europe: an iSpiny Pocket Guide to Butterflies and day-flying Moths | Identification app for butterflies and common day-flying moths of Western Europe. | iSpiny | No | App | View Edit |
| Caterpillars of butterflies of Britain and Ireland: Identification Guide | Butterflies have four stages in their life cycle (egg – caterpillar – pupa – butterfly). | Lewington & Bebbington | 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 |
| Checklist of recorded UK Millipede species | Written checklist with majority of species linked to a picture. Nomenclature follows Lee, P. (2006). | British Myriapod and Isopod Group (BMIG) | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| Checklist of the Collembola | A catalogue and encyclopaedia of world Collembola. | Bellinger, P.F., Christiansen, K.A. & Janssens, F | Yes | Online | 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 |
| Checklist: Diptera | RES Handbook vol 12 part 1. | Chandler | No | Publication | View Edit |
| Checklist: Hymenoptera | RES Handbook vol 11 part 4. Checklist of the families, genera and species in the order Hymenoptera. | Fitton et al | No | Publication | View Edit |
| Cheilostomatous Bryozoa (part 1) Aeteoidea - Cribrilinoidea (2nd ed.) | Bryozoans will be familiar to students and specialists of marine biology, but they may not be immediately recognised for | Hayward & Ryland | No | Publication | View Edit |
| Cheilostomatous Bryozoa (part 2) Hippothooidea - Celleporoidea (2nd ed.) | Bryozoans will be familiar to students and specialists of marine biology, but they may not be immediately recognised for | Hayward & Ryland | No | Publication | View Edit |
| Chelifer.com | Gerald Legg's Pseudoscorpion web pages. | Gerald Legg | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| Churchyard lichens | This 8-panel laminated fold-out chart will help you identify over 50 of the commonest lichens found in lowland churchyar | Dobson | No | Publication | 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 |
| Cladocera key | Key to cladocera - in FRENCH - but very easy to use | Claude Amoros | Yes | Online, PDF | View Edit |
| Cladonia: a field guide | The author writes: "Cladonia is an extensive and difficult genus of lichens, but one that is extremely valuable in | N. G. Hodgetts | Yes | Online, PDF | 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 |
| Coleoptera family keys | Updated web address for individual beetle families. | Mike Hackston | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| Coleoptera: Clambidae | RES Handbook vol 4 part 6a. The family Clambidae is represented in Britain by two genera: Clambus and Calyptomerus. | Johnson | No | Publication | View Edit |
| Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Entiminae (Broad-nosed weevils) | RES Handbook vol 5 part 17a. | Morris | No | Publication | View Edit |
