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 - 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 - Identifying Linnet and Twite Linnets are familiar birds, but their scarcer cousins Twite are always a good find. BTO Yes Online View Edit
BTO Bird ID - Corvids A black crow flies over - but is it a Crow, a Rook or even a Raven? BTO Yes Online View Edit
Getting to grips with warblers video: Chiffchaff Vs Willow Warbler Listen to Chiffchaff and Willow Warbler songs 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 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 - 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 - Curlew and Whimbrel Curlew is a familiar wader, found in wild habitats around the UK. BTO Yes Online View Edit
BTO Bird ID - Sanderling & Curlew Sandpiper In the UK in late Summer some may be daunted by the prospect of identifying individual species in frequent groups of sma 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
Know your Chats This identification video looks at Whinchat, Stonechat and Wheatear. 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
BTO Bird ID video - Knot and Dunlin Telling winter waders apart can be daunting. BTO Yes Online View Edit
Getting to grips with warblers: Reed Warbler Vs Sedge Warbler In this film, part of a series aimed at helping with the tricky task of identifying warblers, we take a look at Reed and BTO Yes Online View Edit
BTO Bird ID video - diving ducks Dabbling ducks are so familiar, but there is also a group of common ducks that actively dive on freshwater for food. BTO Yes Online View Edit
BTO Bird ID - Pigeons Not all pigeons are Woodpigeons - honest! 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 - Goldcrest & Firecrest The tiny Goldcrest, is a common year-round bird, found mainly in woodland and gardens. BTO Yes Online View Edit
BTO Bird ID video - Iceland and Glaucous Gulls This identification video tackles the difficult pair of gulls, Iceland and Glaucous. BTO Yes Online View Edit
Taking a look at terns: Roseate, Sandwich and Little Tern This video rounds up the identification of other Terns - Roseate, Sandwich and Little Tern. BTO Yes Online View Edit
BTO Bird ID video - Grey & Golden Plovers Can you tell the silver from the gold? BTO Yes Online View Edit
Know your thrushes - Song and Mistle Song and Mistle Thrush are two garden species that are readily confused; both are grey brown in appearance; both have a BTO Yes Online View Edit
BTO Bird ID - Goosander and Red-breasted Merganser Identifying the two large sawbills, Goosander and Red-breasted Merganser, can be pretty straight-forward when confronted BTO Yes Online View Edit
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 - 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 - Goshawk and Sparrowhawk All birders, whatever their skill level and experience, will struggle on occasion with separating Sparrowhawk and Goshaw 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 - godwits Godwits are large, elegant waders and relatively common in the right habitats at certain times of year. 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 - 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 - Great & Lesser Spotted Woodpeckers Are you unsure of the identity of a black and white woodpecker coming to your garden feeder? 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 - 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 - Green finches in your garden Not all green finches are Greenfinches! BTO Yes Online View Edit
BTO Bird ID video - Common shanks Redshank are common, familiar (and very noisy) waders found, year-round, on our coastal habitats as well as inland durin BTO Yes Online View Edit
BTO Bird ID video - Hirundines and Swift With their swept back wings and aerial lifestyle hirundines (Swallow, Sand and House Martins) and the similar, but unrel BTO Yes Online View Edit
BTO Bird ID video - Common sparrows & Reed Bunting Sparrows are not just sparrows - are they House Sparrows or Tree Sparrows? BTO Yes Online View Edit
Telling apart Marsh and Willow Tits Of the more common species in the UK, Marsh and Willow Tit probably present one of the more difficult ID challenges. BTO Yes Online View Edit
Getting to grips with warblers: Whitethroat and Lesser Whitethroat In the fourth of our series of videos aimed at helping with the tricky task of identifying warblers, we take a look at W 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
Sorting Short-eared and Long-eared Owls As difficult species go, the Long and Short-eared Owl pairing are amongst the most challenging to identify, especially i BTO Yes Online View Edit
Garden bumblebees - how to recognise and record them A guide to enable you to identify and record the bumblebees that you see using your garden. BTO and Bumblebee Conservation Trust Yes Online, PDF View Edit
Guide to bees of Britain Produced in partnership with Buglife, this 8-page chart shows 28 species of bee, most of which can commonly be seen flyi Buglife, O'Toole & Shields 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
Guide to Common Bumblebees Quick pdf guide to the common species of bumblebee Bumblebee Conservation Trust Yes PDF View Edit
Identify a butterfly Website containing photos and simple key based on colour, size and markings. Butterfly Conservation Yes Online View Edit
MAKAQueS Comprehensive electronic multiaccess key to the vascular plants of the British Isles, available for desktop computers an C J Dixon No App View Edit
BSBI Handbook No 8 Pondweeds of Great Britain and Ireland A substantial guide to the British species of Potamogeton, Groenlandia and Ruppia, with an excellent introductory sectio C. D. Preston No Publication View Edit
RES Handbook Vol 4 Part 8a. Coleoptera. Staphylinidae. Section (a) Piestinae to Euaesthetinae THE family Staphylinidae contains in the British Isles about 950 species, that is to say about one-quarter of the total C. E. Tottenham Yes Online, PDF View Edit
Hybrid Flora of the British Isles This book provides detailed accounts of the 909 hybrids reliably recorded in the wild in the British Isles. C.A. Stace, C.D. Preston & D.A. Pearman No Publication View Edit

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