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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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

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