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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| 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 |
| Solitary Wasps | This Naturalists' Handbook aims to attract more people to the study of solitary wasps by describing the ecology, di | Peter F Yeo, Sarah A Corbet, Anthony J Hopkins | No | Publication | View Edit |
| The TEP files | A series of PDFs tackling grasses. | Peter Gateley | Yes | Online, PDF | View Edit |
| Identification Guide to the Inshore Fish of the British Isles | A comprehensive photographic guide to the coastal fish of the British Isles. | Peter Henderson (author), Robin Somes (Editor) | No | Publication | View Edit |
| How to identify Autumn seeds | Beautiful illustrations of 12 distinctive seeds to look for during Autumn. | Peter Marren, Felicity Rose Cole | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| Collembola Taxonomy | Summary information about the distribution and ecology of Collembola (springtails) in the UK and Ireland. The page list | Peter Shaw/Steve Hopkin | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| Insects of the British Cow-dung Community | This book is intended to provide students possessing little or no entomological training with the basic taxonomic abilit | Peter Skidmore | Yes | Online, PDF | View Edit |
| Scottish Lichens | A wealth of info on a range of lichen species, including a species gallery and blog | Petra Vergunst | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| Field Guide to the Micro-moths of Great Britain & Ireland | One of the most eagerly anticiptated insect guides for years . . | Phil Sterling and Mark Parsons, illustrated by Richard Lewington | No | Publication | View Edit |
| Water Beetle adults and larvae | A dichotomous key - in FRENCH - but very useable for adult and larvae of water beetles | Phillipe Richoux | Yes | Online, PDF | View Edit |
| Interactive guide to common woody plants of the UK | The key provided here identifies the trees, shrubs and woody climbers found in the wild in the UK, whether native or int | Pier Luigi Nimis, Bob Press, Stefano Martellos & Andrea Moro | 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 Europe | Pier Luigi Nimis, Pat Wolseley & Stefano Martellos | Yes | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| October Fungi Spotter’s Sheet | Photo guide to the most common autumnal fungi. | Plantlife | Yes | View Edit | |
| June Wildflowers Spotter’s Sheet | Photo guide to the most commonly seen wildflowers in June. | Plantlife | Yes | Online, PDF | View Edit |
| May Wildflowers Spotter’s Sheet | Photo guide to the most commonly seen wildflowers in May | Plantlife | Yes | Online, PDF | View Edit |
| April Wildflowers Spotter’s Sheet | Photo guide to the most commonly seen wildflowers in April. | Plantlife | Yes | Online, PDF | View Edit |
| March Wildflowers Spotter’s Sheet | Photo guide to the most commonly seen wildflowers in March. | Plantlife | Yes | Online, PDF | View Edit |
| What to look out for in July | Photo guide to the most commonly seen wildflowers in July. | Plantlife | Yes | Online, PDF | View Edit |
| Wildflowers to look for in August | Photo guide to the most commonly seen wildflowers in August. | Plantlife | Yes | Online, PDF | View Edit |
| Wildflowers to look for in September | Photo guide to the most commonly seen wildflowers in September. | Plantlife | Yes | Online, PDF | 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 |
| Seaside wildflowers | Photo guide to the most commonly seen seaside wildflowers. | Plantlife | Yes | Online, PDF | View Edit |
| Wild Plants of the Woods | Photo guide to the most commonly seen wildflowers in woodland. | Plantlife | Yes | Online, PDF | View Edit |
| What’s in bloom in June? | Photo guide to the most commonly seen wildflowers in June (alternate version). | Plantlife | Yes | Online, PDF | 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 |
| July Wildflowers Spotter's Sheet | Guide to the commonest wildflowers seen in July. | Plantlife | Yes | View Edit | |
| Free-living marine nematodes (Part 2: British chromadorids) | The chromadorids are small nematode worms mostly less than 2mm long and so form part of the meiofauna in marine habitats | Platt & Warwick | No | Publication | 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 |
| Winter trees: a photographic guide to common trees and shrubs | Identifying trees in winter without their familiar leaves can apear a daunting challenge, but a closer look will reveal | Price & Bersweden | No | Publication | View Edit |
| Identikit Sphagnum Mosses (Mobile Version) | Multi access key to UK and Irish Sphagnum Mosses (trial version) created by Lyn Jones using Identikit | Professor Lyn Jones, University of Dundee | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| Identikit Mosses | Multi access key to UK and Irish Mosses (trial version) created by Lyn Jones using Identikit | Professor Lyn Jones, University of Dundee | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| Guide to the British Stonefly (Plecoptera) families: adults and larvae | This introductory AIDGAP field guide to stoneflies includes identification keys for the identification of both stonefly | Pryce, Macadam & Brooks | No | Publication | View Edit |
| BSBI Flora Search | Online multi-access key for the identification of British flora. | Quentin Groom | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| Botanical Keys - Find Wild Flowers | The Botanical Society for Britian and Ireland (BSBI) hosts this on line plant key produced by one of their members. The | Quentin Groom | Yes | Online | View Edit |
| BSBI Handbook No 4 Willows and Poplars of Great Britain and Ireland | Useful identification guide to native Salix and Populus species, hybrids and varieties in Britain - 65 described. | R .D. Meikle | No | Publication | View Edit |
| RES Handbook Vol 4 Part 1. Coleoptera, Introduction and keys to families | THE Coleoptera of the British Islands have been treated in a series of comprehensive works, the most important of which | R. A. Crowson | 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 |
| RES Handbook Vol 6 Part 2a. Hymenoptera - Symphyta | OF the two Suborders of the Hymenoptera the Symphyta are much the smaller and are dealt with here in only four parts. | R. B. Benson | Yes | Online, PDF | View Edit |
| RES Handbook Vol 6 Part 2b. Hymenoptera - Symphyta | Tenthredinidae is the predominant sawfly family in almost all parts of the world except Australia, where it is mainly re | R. B. Benson | Yes | Online, PDF | View Edit |
| RES Handbook Vol 6 Part 2c. Hymenoptera - Symphyta | OF the three tribes in this subfamily only the Cladiini and Nematini occur in Britain; the Pristolini are, so far as is | R. B. Benson | Yes | Online, PDF | View Edit |
| RES Handbook Vol 8 Part 1a. Hymenoptera. Cynipoidea. Key to families and subfamilies and Cynipinae (including galls) | Hymenoptera, the British species, as listed in Kloet and Hincks (1945), numbering just over two hundred. | R. D. Eady and J. Quinlan | Yes | Online, PDF | View Edit |
| RES Handbook Vol 5 Part 7. Coleoptera - Coccinellidae & Sphindidae | THE World fauna of Coccinellidae includes over 3000 known species, of which only 42 occur in the British Isles. | R. D. Pope | Yes | Online, PDF | View Edit |
| RES Handbook Vol 10 Part 8. Diptera - Phoridae Genus Megaselia (Scuttle Flies) | This Handbook constitutes the second part of a two-part introduction to the British scuttle flies. | R. H. L. Disney | Yes | Online, PDF | View Edit |
| RES Handbook Vol 10 Part 1. Diptera. Syrphidae. | FLIES of the family SYRPHIDAE are commonly known as " Hover-flies" and "Flower-flies," the former po | R. L. Coe | Yes | Online, PDF | View Edit |
| RES Handbook Vol 10 Part 2c. Diptera. Pipunculidae | FLIES of the family Pipunculidae may be recognized by their strikingly large eyes, semiglobular or nearly globular and e | R. L. Coe | Yes | Online, PDF | View Edit |
| RES Handbook Vol 9 Part 2 i. Diptera - 2. Nematocera: families Tipulidae to Chironomidae (Tipulidae) | FLIES of the family TIPULIDAE may be recognized by their slender bodies and long, slender legs, the latter characteristi | R. L. Coe, Paul Freeman & P. F. Mattingly | Yes | Online, PDF | View Edit |
| RES Handbook Vol 9 Part 2 ii. Diptera - 2. Nematocera: families Tipulidae to Chironomidae (Trichoceridae - Culicidae) | THis is a small family represented in Europe by two genera, Trichocera (winter gnats) and Diazosma. | R. L. Coe, Paul Freeman & P. F. Mattingly | Yes | Online, PDF | View Edit |
