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 251 - 300 of 764.| Title | Description | Author(s) | Free | Availability | |
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| Field Guide to the Moths of Great Britain and Ireland - Paperback (2nd edition) | This is the most comprehensive guide to the larger moths of Great Britain and Ireland, with superb artworks by Richard L | Paul Waring & Martin Townsend, illustrated by Richard Lewington | No | Publication | View Edit |
| Field key to bee-flies of the Netherlands | Superbly illustrated photographic key (in Dutch) to Bombyliidae & Mythicomyiidae. | John Smit | Yes | Online, PDF | 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 |
| 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 |
| Forget-me-not - video ID key | A video key (short YouTube film) to the Forget-me-nots found in Kent and commonly found throughout the UK. | Lliam Rooney/BSBI | 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 | |
| Frans Janssen's Flickr Gallery | Flickr Gallery showing photos and descriptions of many European springtails (Collembola) | Frans Janssen | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| Free-living marine nematodes (Part 2: British chromadorids) | The chromadorids are small nematode worms mostly less than 2mm long and so form part of the meiofauna in marine habitats | Platt & Warwick | No | Publication | View Edit |
| Freshwater Bivalves of Britain and Ireland | Produced in conjunction with the Environment Agency, this AIDGAP identification guide covers the 31 different species of | Killeen, Aldridge & Oliver | No | Publication | View Edit |
| Freshwater name trail | Looking to identify the minibeasts of ponds and streams? | Orton & Bebbington | No | Publication | View Edit |
| FSC Identify | For FSC employees only. | FSC | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| Fungi Name Trail: Identification Guide | Produced in association with the British Mycological Society, this key is to guide teachers and students to help identif | Holden & Hamper | No | Publication | View Edit |
| Fungi of Temperate Europe | Identification form wheels to fungi genera. | Laessoe, T. and Petersen, J. H. | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| Garden bugs and beasties | Head down your garden and peer amongst the flowers, grasses and plant pots, and you will find an amazing range of little | Farley Brown, Shields & Langman | No | Publication | View Edit |
| Garden bumblebees - how to recognise and record them | A guide to enable you to identify and record the bumblebees that you see using your garden. | BTO and Bumblebee Conservation Trust | Yes | Online, PDF | View Edit |
| Geoglossum (earth tongues) | For some years, Mal Greaves, of the Mid-Yorkshire Fungus Group, has been making a special study of the genus Scutellinia | Malcolm Greaves | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| Geotrupidae Key to British Species | A key to the British species of family Geotrupidae, revised to include Odonteus armiger which was formerly placed in a s | Mike Hackston (2019) Adapted and updated from Joy (1932) and translated from Machatschke (1969). | Yes | Online, PDF | View Edit |
| Getting started with spider recording | This free FSC fold-out chart contrains some of the easily recognisible spiders that can be found in the UK. | Dillon, Holly | Yes | Publication | View Edit |
| Getting to grips with warblers video : Blackcap Vs Garden Warbler | Listen to Garden Warbler and Blackcap songs | BTO | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| Getting to grips with warblers video: Chiffchaff Vs Willow Warbler | Listen to Chiffchaff and Willow Warbler songs | BTO | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| Getting to grips with warblers: Reed Warbler Vs Sedge Warbler | In this film, part of a series aimed at helping with the tricky task of identifying warblers, we take a look at Reed and | BTO | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| Getting to grips with warblers: Whitethroat and Lesser Whitethroat | In the fourth of our series of videos aimed at helping with the tricky task of identifying warblers, we take a look at W | BTO | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| Grasses | Covering 30 species, this fold-out chart should enable everyone to put a name to some of the most common species of gras | Gardener & Roberts | No | Publication | View Edit |
| Grasshoppers of Norfolk | A guide to identification of Orthoptera in Norfolk. Includes information on habitats, calls, distribution maps. | David Richmond | Yes | Online, PDF | View Edit |
| Great horsetail - iD video | A guide (short YouTube film) to the diagnostic features of Equisetum telmateia (Great Horsetail) to aid in the identific | Lliam Rooney/BSBI | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| Grey Geese ID video Guide | This short film gives a guide to the different grey goose species. | BTO | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| Guide to amphibians | This guide will help you to identify all the amphibians you are likely to find in UK ponds | FSC, Natural History Museum, ARC Trust & OPAL | Yes | View Edit | |
| Guide to bees of Britain | Produced in partnership with Buglife, this 8-page chart shows 28 species of bee, most of which can commonly be seen flyi | Buglife, O'Toole & Shields | No | Publication | View Edit |
| Guide to British Dung Beetles: GEOTRUPIDAE (Dor beetles) | PDF linked from webpage with extra information: https://dungbeetlemap.wordpress.com/dung-beetles/geotrupidae/ The Geotr | Ceri Watkins, Dung Beetle UK Mapping Project | Yes | Online, PDF | View Edit |
| Guide to British Dung Beetles: ONTHOPHAGUS | PDF linked from webpage with extra information: https://dungbeetlemap.wordpress.com/dung-beetles/onthophagus/ Picture g | Ceri Watkins, Dung Beetle UK Mapping Project | Yes | Online, PDF | View Edit |
| Guide to British freshwater fishes | This 8-panel laminated fold-out chart shows all the freshwater fish that you are likely to see in ponds, streams and riv | Croft & Roberts | No | Publication | View Edit |
| Guide to chalk rivers of England | Produced in partnership with the Herts and Middlesex Wildlife Trust, this fold-out chart provides an identification guid | Bell & Shields | No | Publication | View Edit |
| Guide to Common Bumblebees | Quick pdf guide to the common species of bumblebee | Bumblebee Conservation Trust | Yes | View Edit | |
| Guide to common minerals | Looking for a field guide for minerals? Designed for use in the field, classroom an | Pellant & Pellant | No | Publication | 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 | |
| Guide to Dragonflies and Damselflies | Guide to the most common UK dragon and damselflies. | OPAL | Yes | Online, PDF, Publication | View Edit |
| Guide to duckweeds | Guide to six common duckweed species. | OPAL/BSBI | Yes | Online, PDF, Publication | View Edit |
| Guide to epiphytic lichens in orchards in the East of England | Simple key to lichens found in UK orchards. | OPAL | Yes | Online, PDF, Publication | View Edit |
| Guide to epiphytic mosses in orchards in the East of England | Simple key to mosses found in UK orchards. | OPAL | Yes | Online, PDF, Publication | View Edit |
| Guide to floodplain meadows | Produced in association with the Floodplain Meadows Partnership, this fold-out chart features illustrations of 48 key fl | Gowing, Wallace, Rothero & Roberts | No | Publication | View Edit |
| Guide to foraging: top 25 edible plants | Foraging: what better way to enjoy the outdoors than to go and find your own food for free? | Cremona & Harper | No | Publication | View Edit |
| Guide to Freshwater Invertebrates | This is a key based identification guide to the invertebrates that live in our rivers, streams, lakes, ponds and wetland | Michael Dobson, Simon Pawley, Melanie Fletcher, Anne Powell | No | Publication | 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 |
| Guide to grassland plants 1 | Featuring colour illustrations of 54 species, this 12-page fold-out chart covers plants commonly found on lowland acid a | Gulliver, Gulliver & Roberts | No | Publication | View Edit |
| Guide to grassland plants 2 (chalk and limestone) | Featuring colour illustrations of 63 species, and black-and-white illustrations of a further 15, this 12-page fold-out c | Bebbington & Roberts | No | Publication | View Edit |
| Guide to Indicator Lichens | A simple guide to nine common UK lichens, part of the Opas Air Survey. | OPAL | Yes | Online, PDF, Publication | View Edit |
| Guide to insects of the British Isles | Written and illustrated by renowned natural history artist Richard Lewington, this new 8 panel fold-out chart is a guide | Lewington | No | Publication | View Edit |
| Guide to ladybirds of the British Isles | Produced in conjunction with the UK Ladybird Survey, this popular fold-out chart to ladybird identification covers 26 of | Majerus et al. | No | Publication | View Edit |
| Guide to mosses and liverworts of towns and gardens | Although small, mosses and liverworts can be found nearly everywhere. | Godfrey | No | Publication | View Edit |
