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: [email protected].

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Title Description Author(s) Free Availability
Keys for the identification of British Cryptophagidae This is a family with a good representation in the British fauna. Mike Hackston Yes Online View Edit
Keys for the identification of British Curculionidae A large family in the British fauna, well covered by Handbooks to the Identification of British Insects by Morris. Th Mike Hackston Yes Online View Edit
Keys for the identification of British Elateridae This family contains a number of species which are quite similar to one another. Mike Hackston Yes Online View Edit
Keys for the identification of British Helophoridae The members of this family occurring in Britain all belong to genus Helophorus and most occur in water. Mike Hackston Yes Online View Edit
Keys for the identification of British Hydrophilidae This is a family well-represented in the British fauna with 18 genera and 70 species. Mike Hackston Yes Online View Edit
Keys for the identification of British Nitidulidae (the pollen beetles) Subfamilies Carpophilinae (3 genera, 31 species) Meligethinae (2 genera, 37 species) Nitidulinae (7 gener Mike Hackston Yes Online View Edit
Keys for the identification of British Ptiliidae Tiny beetles of variable shape. Mike Hackston Yes Online View Edit
Keys for the identification of British Scarabaeidae This family includes the dung beetles and flower chafers. Mike Hackston Yes Online View Edit
Keys for the identification of British Staphylinidae This is the largest family of beetles in the UK and includes over 1000 species. Mike Hackston Yes Online View Edit
Keys to adults of the water beetles of Britain and Ireland (Part 2) RES Handbook vol 4 Part 5b. Foster, Bilton & Friday No Publication View Edit
Keys to families of British spiders This AIDGAP identification guide includes the 34 families of spiders known to occur in Britain (at the time it was writt Jones-Walters No Publication View Edit
Keys to the British genera and species of Anthicidae (flower beetles) The Anthicidae are a family of beetles that resemble ants. Mike Hackston Yes Online View Edit
Know your Chats This identification video looks at Whinchat, Stonechat and Wheatear. BTO Yes Online View Edit
Know your thrushes - Song and Mistle Song and Mistle Thrush are two garden species that are readily confused; both are grey brown in appearance; both have a BTO Yes Online View Edit
Ladybird larvae Ladybird larvae are often found, but not well known, as they look so different from adult ladybirds. Brown et al. No Publication View Edit
Ladybirds This revised and updated edition of Ladybirds provides a succinct but comprehensive and accessible overview of the biolo Helen E Roy, Peter MJ Brown, Richard F Comont, Remy L Poland, John J Sloggett, Sophie Allington, Chris Shields No Publication View Edit
Ladybirds (Coccinellidae) of Britain and Ireland This atlas describes the distribution of ladybirds in Britain, Ireland, the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands, using d Roy, Brown, Frost & Poland No Publication View Edit
Land mammals of Britain With new colour illustrations for 2012, this guide covers all the main land mammals found in Britain. Farley-Brown & Roberts No Publication View Edit
Land snails in the British Isles (2nd edition) This fully illustrated AIDGAP identification guide should enable most beginners to identify all the land snails found in Cameron and Riley No Publication View Edit
Lawn wildflowers Say no to the mow! Photo guide to the most commonly seen wildflowers in our garden lawns. Plantlife Yes Online, PDF View Edit
Leafsnap Leafsnap app for iPhones using visual recognition software to help identify species from photos of their leaves. NHM Yes App View Edit
LeafWatch Help scientists track the spread of the horse-chestnut leaf miner moth with this simple, intuitive app.
 &#1 Natural Apptitude Ltd. Yes App View Edit
Lepidoptera Dissection Group website This website contains high-magnification images of the dissected genitalia of macro- and micro-moths. Lepidoptera Dissection Group Yes Online View Edit
Les araignées de Belgique et de France (Spiders of Belgium and France) An excellent photographic resource - particularly for quality photographs of genitalia. Pierre Oger Yes Online View Edit
Les myxomycètes Information on 853 taxa of myxomycetes (530 of them illustrated by colour photographs) in two complementary volumes, one Poulain, Michel, Marianne Meyer et Jean Bozonnet No Publication View Edit
Lichen App for assessing Nitrogen pollution This mobile app is a tool for assessing the status of nitrogen in your area by surveying lichen on trees. CEH Yes Online, App View Edit
Lichens of heaths and moors This fold-out chart covers 62 of the species found on heaths and moors, organised into species that grow on the ground, Dobson 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
Lichens on twigs This site provides a user-friendly guide to over 60 lichens which can be found growing on twigs. Pat Wolseley; Diccon Alexander; Peter James; Anne Hume; Harry Taylor Yes Online 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
List of British species with their food plants List of British species with their food plants Mike Hackston Yes Online View Edit
Littoral Pycnogonids Of The British Isles Keys to the littoral pycnogonids of the British Isles are presented. P. E. KING and G. B. CRAPP Yes Online, PDF View Edit
Lobsters, mud shrimps and anomuran crabs This Synopsis contains keys and details accounts for the identification of lobsters, mud shrimps and anomuran crabs. Ingle & Christiansen 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
MAKAQueS Comprehensive electronic multiaccess key to the vascular plants of the British Isles, available for desktop computers an C J Dixon No App View Edit
Mammal Tracker The Mammal Tracker smartphone application is the first extensive phone app for the identification and recording of Briti Natural Apptitude Ltd. Yes App View Edit
March Wildflowers Spotter’s Sheet Photo guide to the most commonly seen wildflowers in March. Plantlife Yes Online, PDF View Edit
Marine and brackish water Harpacticoid Copepods (Part 1) The order Harpacticoida is one of the ten orders of the sub-class Copepoda which, along with six other sub-classes, make Huys et al No Publication 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
Marsh horsetail - ID video A guide to the diagnostic features of Equisetum palustre (Marsh Horsetail) to aid in the identification of the species. BSBI Yes Online View Edit
May Wildflowers Spotter’s Sheet Photo guide to the most commonly seen wildflowers in May Plantlife Yes Online, PDF View Edit
MCS Jellyfish Guide Photo guide to 6 species of UK jellyfish plus 2 species of Hydrozoa (Portuguese man-of-war and By the wind sailor) to he Marine Conservation Society Yes Online, PDF View Edit
Meres and Mosses This new 12 panel fold-out chart showcases the wildlife of the Meres and Mosses landscape of Shropshire, Cheshire and St Boardman & Daniels No Publication View Edit
Moorland Plants This fold-out chart is designed to aid the identification of moorland and heathland plants in the British Isles. Jones & Roberts No Publication View Edit
MoorMOSS app This app is primarily a field guide to the Sphagnum mosses found in the Peak District National Park and South Pennines a Moors for the Future, Natural Apptitude Ltd Yes App View Edit
MoorPLANTS app An app to help identify the plants you encounter on the Peak District and South Pennine peatlands and moors. Moors for the Future, Natural Apptitude Ltd Yes App View Edit
MoorPLANTS pdf A printable pdf to help identify the plants you encounter on the Peak District and South Pennine peatlands and moors. Moors for the Future Yes Online, PDF View Edit
MoorSIGHTS app This app is a field guide to some of the most common and/or iconic landscape features of the Peak District National Park Moors for the Future, Natural Apptitude Ltd Yes App View Edit
MoorSIGHTS pdf This printable pdf is a field guide to some of the most common and/or iconic landscape features of the Peak District Nat Moors for the Future Yes Online, PDF View Edit
MoorWILD app This app is a field guide to some of the most common and/or iconic moorland animal species found within the Peak Distric Moors for the Future, Natural Apptitude Ltd Yes App View Edit

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