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].
Displaying 401 - 450 of 666.| Title | Description |
Author(s) |
Free | Availability | |
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| Soil Biodiversity UK | Facebook group dealing with soil biodiversity in the UK. | Matthew Shepherd | Yes | Online | 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 | |
| Euphausiid, Stomatopod and Leptostracan Crustaceans | The three orders of crustaceans described here all belong to the subclass Malacostraca. | Mauchline | No | Publication | 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 |
| Key to common ferns | This 8-panel laminated fold-out chart features colour images of the commonest 38 of the 53 species of ferns and allied p | Merryweather | No | Publication | View Edit |
| The fern guide (3rd edition) | This fully illustrated AIDGAP identification guide should enable most beginners to put a name to the ferns, clubmosses, | Merryweather | No | Publication | View Edit |
| RES Handbook Vol 6 Part 4. Hymenoptera - Pompilidae | The family Pompilidae is one of the best-characterised and most easily recognised of the aculeate families represented i | Michael C. Day | Yes | Online, PDF | View Edit |
| Apples: a field guide | The book is intended to help identify that unknown apple growing in your garden or in the park; to help you choose which | Michael Clark | 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 |
| The Spiders of Great Britain and Ireland | This is the current 'bible' for UK spider identification using microscopic techniques. | Michael Roberts | No | Publication | View Edit |
| Spiders of Britain & Northern Europe | The excellent Collins Guide was published in 1995 and covers most of the UK fauna except around 200 linyphiids (money sp | Michael Roberts | 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 |
| Features of the Serpent Trail | This long-distance footpath in Surrey, West Sussex and Hampshire, the Serpent Trail links the remaining fragments of low | Middleton | 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 |
| Key for the identification of British Laemophloeidae | Twelve species from this family are on the British list. | Mike Hackston | Yes | Online, PDF | View Edit |
| Key for the identification of British Malachiidae | The current check list has 17 species in 11 genera. | Mike Hackston | Yes | Online, PDF | View Edit |
| Key to the British Species of Nicrophorus | Key to the British Species of Nicrophorus - also known as burying beetles or sexton beetles. | Mike Hackston | Yes | View Edit | |
| Key for the identification of British Kateretidae | The nine British species of this family belong to three genera. | Mike Hackston | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| Key to the British Species of Aderidae | Key to the family Aderidae family of British Coleoptera | Mike Hackston | Yes | Online, PDF | View Edit |
| Bostrichidae Key to British Species | Bostrichidae Key to British Species by Mike Hackston, derived from the German key by Arved Lompe. | Mike Hackston | Yes | Online, PDF | View Edit |
| Keys for the identification of British Apionidae | This family was covered by Morris (1990) in Orthocerous Weevils: Coleoptera Curculionoidea (Nemonychidae, Anthribidae, U | Mike Hackston | Yes | Online, PDF | View Edit |
| Key for the identification of British Elmidae | 'The 12 species of Elmidae found in Britain are classified in 8 genera. | Mike Hackston | Yes | Online, PDF | 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 |
| British Lichens Species Gallery | Website designed to help with lichen identification by providing good photos of lichens that are found in the British Is | Mike Sutcliffe | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| Hants moths | Details of all the species that occur in Hampshire and beyond, with good quality photographs, descriptions, distribution | Mike Wall | 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 | |
| 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 |
| Sphagnum ID guide | This printable pdf is primarily a field guide to the Sphagnum mosses found in the Peak District National Park and South | Moors for the Future | Yes | Online, PDF | 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 pdf | This printable PDF is a field guide to some of the most common and/or iconic moorland animal species found within the Pe | Moors for the Future | Yes | Online, PDF | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Common seaweeds | Seaweeds are usually easily recognisable. | Morrell & Roberts | No | Publication | View Edit |
| True Weevils (Part III) | RES Handbook Vol 5 Part 17d. This Handbook is the third, and final, part covering the 'true weevils'. | Morris | No | Publication | View Edit |
| Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Entiminae (Broad-nosed weevils) | RES Handbook vol 5 part 17a. | Morris | No | Publication | View Edit |
| True weevils (part 1) Coleoptera: Curculionidae | RES Handbook vol 5 part 17b. | Morris | No | Publication | View Edit |
| True Weevils (part 2) Coleoptera: Curculionidae, Ceutorhynchinae | RES handbook vol 5 part 17c. | Morris | No | Publication | 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 |
| iRecord Butterflies | Butterfly recording is the foundation for protecting these beautiful creatures. | Natural Apptitude Ltd. | Yes | 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 |
| Plant Tracker | The Environment Agency, Scottish Natural Heritage, the Scottish Environment Protection Agency and Natural Resources Wale | Natural Apptitude Ltd. | Yes | App | View Edit |
| iRecord Ladybirds | The Centre for Ecology and Hydrology and the Nature Locator team have joined forces to help map species of ladybird with | Natural Apptitude Ltd. | Yes | App | View Edit |
| LeafWatch | Help scientists track the spread of the horse-chestnut leaf miner moth with this simple, intuitive app.  | Natural Apptitude Ltd. | Yes | App | View Edit |
| Bats in flight | Telling the different bat species apart by sight can be difficult, but this guide outlines key details to look | Natural History Museum | No | View Edit | |
| Spiders in your home | A guide to help you identify six spider species commonly found in houses and other buildings | Natural History Museum & OPAL | Yes | View Edit | |
| World Spider Catalog | This primarily a fully searchable online database covering spider taxonomy, but it has a longer history of predecessors | Natural History Museum of Bern | 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 |
| 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 |
