Identification guides

Click on the links below to find resources to help you identify species:

• BSBI online botanical key
  An online guide to help you identify plants
• Beetles
• Dragonflies and damselflies (Odonata)
• RSPB Bird Identifier
  This handy tool will suggest species based on information that you enter such as size, habitat or colour
• Identify a butterfly or identify a moth
  Useful ID tools from Butterfly Conservation
• Field Studies Council ID Signpost
  This website has links to some great resources to help you identify and record wildlife, many of them online or free to download
• iSpot
  An online nature community that connects beginners with experts and fellow enthusiasts, run by the Open University​
• Oxfordshire Mammal Guide
  A guide to the identification and distribution of mammals in Oxfordshire
• Pollinator and bug identification Guide
  A guide to the identification from Buglife
• Reading University Identification Guides
  A collection of basic identification aids for a wide range of organisms groups.
• Species Recovery Trust
  This website has a collection links and videos to help with plant identification.
• UK Moths

The NBN Trust also collates information to help with identification of species here.