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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Description | Author(s) | Free | Availability | |
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| 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 |
| Mosses and Liverworts of Britain and Ireland a field guide | The want of a field guide has for many years greatly hindered further spread of interest in British and Irish field bryo | Atherton, Bosanquet , & Lawley | No | Publication | View Edit |
| Moths & Butterflies of Britain & Ireland | Photographic guide accessing UKMoths.org.uk and distribution maps from the National Moth Recording Scheme when online. | Nature Guides Ltd | No | App | View Edit |
| Mydiptera by Leif Karlsson Online Diptera keys | Online illustrated key to world diptera families, plus keys to species for some Muscidae genera and various other fly fa | Leif Karlsson | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| Naamlijst en determinatiesleutel tot de pseudoschorpioenen van nederland (arachnida: pseudoscorpiones) | A dutch key to dutch Pseudoscorpions. It's in Dutch. | Dick van den Tooren | Yes | Online, PDF | View Edit |
| New Flora of the British Isles | Description Since its first publication in 1991, New Flora of the British Isles has become established as | Clive Stace | No | Publication | View Edit |
| North-west European thecate hydroids and their medusae (part 1) | Hydroids and their medusae are amongst the most exquisitely beautiful and intriguing of marine invertebrate groups. | Cornelius | No | Publication | View Edit |
| North-west European thecate hydroids and their medusae (part 2) | Hydroids and their medusae are amongst the most exquisitely beautiful and intriguing of marine invertebrate groups. | Cornelius | No | Publication | View Edit |
| Nottinghamshire Shieldbugs | The excellent Eakringbirds.com website contains and excellent section on the Shieldbugs of Nottinghamshire includes phot | Trevor and Dilys Pendleton | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| October Fungi Spotter’s Sheet | Photo guide to the most common autumnal fungi. | Plantlife | Yes | View Edit | |
| Online Identification Guide to the Birds of Britain and Europe | Beginners and advanced online keys. | surfbirds.com | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| Online 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 projec | Pier Luigi Nimis, Pat Wolseley & Stefano Martellos | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| OPAL Key to common British earthworms | Field key to the common species of UK earthworms devised as part of the engaging Soil and Earthworm survey. | OPAL | Yes | Online, PDF, Publication | View Edit |
| Opal Tree Guide | Guide to 9 common UK tree species. | OPAL | Yes | Online, PDF, Publication | View Edit |
| Opiliones in the UK and Continental Europe | Useful website with information on the identification of harvestmen in the UK and Europe including photographs and speci | Gordon Spears | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| Opiliones Wiki | Harvestmen of the world website containing crowd-sourced images and research | Wikia | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| Orchid Id - The British Orchid Identification Guide | Orchid Id will help you identify and record the wild orchids of the British Isles. | Isoperla | No | App | View Edit |
| Orchid Observers Identification Guide | Identification guide developed for the orchid observers citizen science project. | NHM | Yes | Online, PDF | View Edit |
| Orthosia (Quaker) Moth identification | March is a month neglected by many moth trappers. | Trevor and Dilys Pendleton | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| Our Guide to Newts found in the UK | All the information on the UKs Newts, includes their food, mating and hibernation habits as well as their protected stat | The Wild Outside | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| Owls and owl pellets | Produced in conjunction with the Hawk and Owl Trust, this chart is both an identification guide to owls and a practical | Thomas & Shields | No | Publication | View Edit |
| Oxfordshire grasses | This ID resource was created by Ruth Ripley and Camilla Lambrick from the Oxfordshire Flora Group using the FSC Identiki | Ruth Ripley and Camilla Lambrick | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| Oxfordshire sedges | This ID resource was created by Ruth Ripley and Camilla Lambrick from the Oxfordshire Flora Group using the FSC Identiki | Ruth Ripley and Camilla Lambrick | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| Pdf key to British Silphidae | There are only 21 species recorded from the UK and most of these are reasonably large in size, making identification a l | Silphidae recording Scheme | Yes | View Edit | |
| Phase 1 survey guide: Grassland and marsh | This FSC fold-out chart is designed to help you identify the indicator species needed to carry out a Phase 1 habitat sur | Wallace, Duffell & Harper | No | Publication | View Edit |
| Photo gallery - Sciomyzidae (snail-killing or marsh flies) | Steve Falk's Flickr gallery of Sciomyzidae (snail-killing or marsh flies) https://www.flickr.com/photos/63075200@N0 | Steven Falk | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| Photographic atlas and identification key to the robber flies of Germany | This photo atlas and ID guide for Asilidae – robber-flies - of Europe has more than 1,900 photographs of 82 robber-fly s | Fritz Geller-Grimm | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| Plant & fungi species | A to Z of plant and fungi species, with photos, brief description, distribution, habitat, facts and conservation status. | Plantlife | Yes | Online | 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 |
| Plants common on sand dunes | Arranged by habitat with distance from high-tide level, this chart shows 43 common species of plants found in sand dunes | Edmondson & Roberts | No | Publication | View Edit |
| PlantTracker | Identification of UK invasive non-native species. Also includes recording function to submit records of INNS. | EA, Scottish Natural Heritage, the Scottish Environment Protection Agency, NatureLocator, CEH. | Yes | Online, App | View Edit |
| Playing field plants | Playing fields can be a great place for science investigations. | Farley & Roberts | No | Publication | View Edit |
| Pocket Guide to the Butterflies of Great Britain and Ireland (2nd edition) | This handy pocket-sized book has become the essential guide to identifying the butterflies of Great Britain and Ireland. | Richard Lewington | No | Publication | View Edit |
| Polychaetes: British Amphinomida, Spintherida and Eunicida | Polychaetes are one of the most widespread, abundant and diverse elements of the British - and indeed the world - marine | George & Hartmann-Schröder | No | Publication | View Edit |
| Polychaetes: Interstitial families (2nd ed.) | The minute polychaetes that occur in the interstitial spaces within sandy marine sediments are a diverse phylogenetic as | Westheide | No | Publication | View Edit |
| Poppies - video ID key | A video guide (short YouTube film) to the diagnostic features of the Poppies commonly found in Britain and Ireland to ai | Lliam Rooney/BSBI | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| Provisional atlas of the ptychopterid craneflies (Diptera: Ptychopteridae) of Britain and Ireland | Published by NERC 1993 atlas and key | Alan E Stubbs | Yes | Online, PDF | View Edit |
| Pseudoscorpion UK | Facebook group for people interested in UK Pseudoscorpions. This is a closed group, but joining is very straightforward. | Liam Andrews | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| Pseudoscorpions (Arthropoda, Arachnida): keys and notes for the identification of the species | This Linnean Society synopsis is out of print but remains the most important literature for the identification of Brtiti | Gerald Legg, Richard Evan Jones | No | Publication | View Edit |
| Pseudoscorpions of the world | A world catalogue of Pseudoscorpions. | Western Australian Museum | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| Psocids Psocoptera (Booklice and Barklice) | RES Handbook vol 1 part 7. | New | No | Publication | View Edit |
| Punch-card grasses key - Identikit | In 1985 the Field Studies Council published an innovative polyclave (multi-access) key to British grasses that relied on | Judith Allinson, Richard Pankhurst and Richard Burkmar | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| Quick ant guide | Quick ID Guide to ants designed to be used on a beginners ant course but also available as a download as well. | Richard Becker | Yes | Online, PDF | View Edit |
| Quizlet Waders of Britain and Ireland | An on-line, digital flash card learning resource covering 28 wader species known to occur in Britain and Ireland on a re | Stephen Docker | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| Reptiles and amphibians of Britain and Ireland | This 8-page laminated fold-out chart includes 13 species of non-marine reptile and amphibian which breed in Britain, and | Roberts, Froglife & Ovenden | No | Publication | View Edit |
| RES Handbook Vol 1 Part 10. Odonata | THE ODONATA or Dragonflies are insects familiar to everyone, and, if we except a few of the larger Neuroptera or Lacewin | Lt-Col. F. C. Fraser, I M S | Yes | Online, PDF | View Edit |
| RES Handbook Vol 1 Part 11. Thysanoptera | The term 'British species' may be interpreted in different ways. | L. A. Mound, G. D. Morison, B. R. Pitkin & J. M. Palmer | Yes | Online, PDF | View Edit |
| RES Handbook Vol 1 Part 14a. Trichoptera, Hydroptilidae | The last major review of the British Hydroptilidae was made by Mosely (1939), who described the males and ten females of | J. E. Marshall | Yes | Online, PDF | View Edit |
| RES Handbook Vol 1 Part 16. Siphonaptera | FLEAS are small (1-8 mm long), wingless insects with a holometabolous metamorphosis (egg-larva-pupa-adult); their bodies | F. G. A. M. Smit | Yes | Online, PDF | View Edit |
| RES Handbook Vol 1 Part 2. Thysanura and Diplura | THE Thysanura and Diplura comprise two of the four Orders of primitively wingless insects or Apterygota. | M. J. Delaney | Yes | Online, PDF | View Edit |
