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Wildlife identification links
We would love you to help us record the wildlife of Cheltenham this week.
Any records you could add of any animal or plant you see in your garden would be great.
There are a great range of online tools to help you identify wildlife, as well as many books and apps. Here are some links that you may find useful:
Butterfly Conservation
Butterfly Conservation have a useful guide to UK butterfly species, and moths.
https://butterfly-conservation.org/butterflies/identify-a-butterfly
https://butterfly-conservation.org/moths/identify-a-moth
First Nature
This site has guides to fungi, wildlflowers, insects, trees, birds, amphibians, reptiles, fish and mammals.
https://www.first-nature.com/index.php
iSpot
iSpot is an online community where you can add records and submit photos and ask for help in identifying them.
Natural History Museum
The Natural History Museum has guides to spiders, trees, bats, insect pests, orchids, bumblebees and amphibians.
https://www.nhm.ac.uk/take-part/identify-nature.html
OPAL
OPAL has a range of identification guides including trees, hedgerow plants, duckweeds, orchids, ferns, lichens, earthworms, freshwater invertebrates, house spiders, moths, common garden invertebrates, amphibians and bats.
Pl@ntNet
Pl@ntNet is a tool to help to identify plants with pictures.
https://identify.plantnet.org/query/weurope/
Royal Entomological Society
The Royal Entomological Society has a free to use identification service where you can send them a photo and they will identify it for you.
https://www.royensoc.co.uk/identifying-insects
RSPB
The RSPB have some great online tools to help you identify birds.
https://www.rspb.org.uk/birds-and-wildlife/wildlife-guides/
The Mammal Society
The Mammal Society have a list of UK species, including rodents, deer and bats.
https://www.mammal.org.uk/species-hub/full-species-hub/discover-mammals/
Woodland Trust
The Woodland Trust have some great guides to British trees, and an app to help with tree identification.
https://www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/trees-woods-and-wildlife/british-trees/a-z-of-british-trees/
https://www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/trees-woods-and-wildlife/british-trees/tree-id-app/
UK Ladybird Survey
The survey has a guide to many of the common UK ladybirds.