ID Resource Signpost
The ID Signpost 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].
For more info and to create an account, follow this link: https://www.fscbiodiversity.uk/idsignpost/about
| Title | Description | Author(s) | Free | Availability | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Online key to Bee-flies (Bombyliidae) of North-west Europe | This online key to Bee-flies (Bombyliidae) of North-west Europe by Mark Van Veen contains a wide range of Bombyliidae sp | Mark van Veen | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| Thysanoptera Britannica et Hibernica: Thrips of the British Isles | This identification and information system includes 177 species of thrips that have been taken alive on the British Isle | Laurence Mound, Dom Collins, Anne Hastings | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| A beginner’s vegetative guide to orchids of the British Isles | This guide is designed to aid anyone in the process of identifying orchids when they are not in flower | Mike Waller | Yes | View Edit | |
| A field guide to the shallow-water echinoderms of the British Isles | Field guide & practical reference book on echinoderms likely to be encountered between the tides & under | Bernard E. Picton | No | Publication | View Edit |
| A field key to the British Brown Seaweeds | This AIDGAP identification key is designed to allow non-specialists to identify the majority of British macroscopic (lar | Hiscock | Yes | Online, PDF | 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 |
| A Field Key To The Slugs Of The British Isles Mollusca: Pulmonata | (Note that this key is now superceded by the 2014 FSC key to slugs.) Keys, notes and illustrations are provided to assis | R. A. D. CAMERON | Yes | Online, PDF | View Edit |
| A guide to animals on Schedule 9 of the Wildlife and Countryside Act | Produced in partnership with RSPCA and Natural England as a compact reference source for people working with wildlife, t | Grogan | No | Publication | View Edit |
| A guide to British Amphibians | The British isles is home to seven amphibian species. | David Bodenham | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| A guide to British Bats | This 8-panel laminated fold-out chart includes 16 species of bats that live and breed in Britain. | Jones & Walsh | No | Publication | View Edit |
| A guide to British mammal tracks and signs | Many British mammals are shy or nocturnal, which makes them difficult to see. | Bullion | No | Publication | View Edit |
| A guide to common fossils | This laminated fold-out chart includes illustrations of 71 fossils, explains how fossils are formed and their geological | Pellant & Pellant | No | Publication | View Edit |
| A Guide to Grasses, their Structure, Identification, Uses and Distribution in the British Isles | The classic text on British Grass identification. 476pp, numerous line illustrations. | Hubbard, C. E. | No | Publication | View Edit |
| A guide to hedgerows | Produced in partnership with OMSCo (The Organic Milk Co-operative), this fold-out chart provides an identification guide | Crane & Roberts | No | Publication | View Edit |
| A guide to Life on Sandy Shores between Colwyn Bay and Fleetwood | A resource to help identify and record shore life available as part of the Liverpool Bay Marine Recording Partnership an | Ian Wallace Kathryn Turner | Yes | View Edit | |
| A guide to plant galls in Britain | Oak apples... robin's pin cushions on dog roses... red pimples on sycamore leaves... | Redfern & Shirley | No | Publication | View Edit |
| A Guide to Shropshire Orthoptera and Dermaptera | Excluding escapes and naturalised aliens (eg Egyptian grasshopper, house cricket) thirteen species of Orthoptera (grassh | David Williams | Yes | Online, PDF | View Edit |
| A Guide To The British Coastal Mysidacea | THE Mysidacea (or “Mysids”) are small, free-swimming Crustaceans, commonly known as Opossum Shrimps. | P. MAKINGS | Yes | Online, PDF | View Edit |
| A guide to the identification of deciduous broad-leaved trees and shrubs in winter | This fully illustrated AIDGAP field guide is designed to enable non-specialists to identify many of the deciduous trees | May & Panter | No | Publication | View Edit |
| A guide to the Reptiles and Amphibians found in the UK | Webpage designed to help identify a lizard, snake, toad, frog or newt seen in the UK, | RAUK | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| A key to common lichens on trees in England | This key to common species of lichens on trees was prepared in collaboration between two partners of the European proje | Pier Luigi Nimis, Pat Wolseley & Stefano Martellos | Yes | 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 adults of British lacewings and their allies (Neuroptera, Megaloptera, Raphidiptera and Mecoptera) | This AIDGAP identification guide will help identity the adults of 73 species of lacewings and allied species (including | Plant | No | Publication | View Edit |
| A key to the British species of family Buprestidae (Coleoptera) | The British species of Buprestidae are very few and are mostly restricted to the South East of Britain. | Mike | Yes | Online, PDF | View Edit |
| A key to the Collembola (Springtails) of Britain and Ireland | The AIDGAP identification guide to Collembola (springtails) has been designed to guide the beginner to this group throug | Hopkin | No | Publication | View Edit |
| A key to the crabs and crab-like animals of British inshore waters | This fully-illustrated AIDGAP field guide enables the non-specialist to identify all of the crabs that are likely to be | Crothers & Crothers | 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 |
| A Key To The Families Of British Diptera | This AIDGAP key should enable anybody to identify adult flies to their family. | D. M. Unwin | 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 |
| 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 |
| A key to the major groups of British freshwater invertebrates | This AIDGAP identification guide is designed to help non-specialists identify the invertebrates found in pools, lakes, s | Croft | 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 |
| A Key to the Soil Mites of Britain and Ireland | This key should help you to identify families of mites found in soil and litter in the UK and Ireland, as well as introd | Matthew Shepherd and Felicity Crotty | No | View Edit | |
| A key to the woodlice of Britain and Ireland | The AIDGAP identification guide to woodlice contains keys to the 35 species of woodlice known to be breed outdoors in th | Hopkin | No | Publication | View Edit |
| A Key to Wild and Introduced Daffodils of Great Britain | In addition to our native daffodil there are a large number of introduced daffodils growing wild in Britain. | Mick Crawley | Yes | Online, PDF | View Edit |
| A new key to wild flowers | Halfway between an introductory guide and a technical flora, this user-friendly key provides an easy route to the accura | Hayward & Hickey | No | Publication | View Edit |
| A Photo Key to Great Diving Beetles | It is generally known that Great Diving Beetles are some of our largest freshwater insects and most naturalists will kn | Adrian Chalkley | Yes | View Edit | |
| A Photo Key to Large Aquatic Bugs | Whilst identification to species of many of the smaller aquatic bugs can be complicated, those described here are fairly | Adrian Chalkley | Yes | View Edit | |
| A Pictorial Guide to British Ephemeroptera | Ephemeroptera, also known as mayflies or up-wing flies, can be seen emerging from the water, resting on nearby vegetatio | Macadam & Bennett | No | Publication | View Edit |
| A provisional atlas of the bees, wasps and ants of Shropshire | Based on approximately 14000 records, covering over 300 species, this is the first ever published atlas of the bees, was | Nigel Jones and Ian Cheeseborough | No | Publication | View Edit |
| A provisional atlas of the shieldbugs and alies of Shropshire | Shieldbugs have been little studied in Shropshire until very recently. | Pete Boardman | No | Publication | View Edit |
| Agromyzidae of Great Britain and Ireland | A descriptive and illustrative guide to the Agromyzidae (leaf-mining flies) of the British Isles | Agromyzidae Recording Scheme | Yes | View Edit | |
| Alan Silverside's lichen pages | Photographs of Scottish and other British lichens | Alan Silverside | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| AlgaeVision | A database and virtual collection of images of freshwater and terrestrial algae collected in Britain and Ireland | Natural History Museum, British Phycological Society | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| An amendment to the crab key | The crab key (Crothers and Crothers, 1983) is amended to incorporate the pelagic crab Planes minutus. | John and Marylin Crothers | Yes | Online, PDF | View Edit |
| An Atlas of Waterfleas in Britain & Ireland | Updated distribution maps for 89 of the 92 species of Cladocera living in the water bodies of Britain & Ireland. | Adrian Chalkley | Yes | Online, PDF, Publication | View Edit |
| An Illustrated Guide To The Diatoms Of British Coastal Plankton | Following introductory sections rm the structure and ecology of marine diatoms, a key is provided to some sixty forms mo | J. B. SYKES | Yes | Online, PDF | View Edit |
| An illustrated key to the cuckoo wasps (Hymenoptera, Chrysididae) of the Nordic and Baltic countries, with description of a new species | An extremely well illustrated, with high resolution colour photographs, key and descriptions of species from Nordic and | Juho Paukkunen, Alexander Berg, Villu Soon, Frode Ødegaard, Paolo Rosa. | Yes | Online, PDF | View Edit |
| An Introduction to Centipedes, Millipedes and Woodlice | Although good taxonomic guides exist for these animals, there is a gap between beginners’ introductions to invertebrates | Paul Richards | No | Online | View Edit |
| An Introduction to Centipedes, Millipedes and Woodlice | Although good taxonomic guides exist for these animals, there is a gap between beginners’ introductions to invertebrates | Paul Richards | No | Online | View Edit |
