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This is a list of butterflies of Great Britain, including extinct, naturalised species and those of dubious origin.The list comprises butterfly species listed in The Moths and Butterflies of Great Britain and Ireland by Emmet et al. [1] and Britain's Butterflies by Tomlinson and Still.
Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects is a series of books produced by the Royal Entomological Society (RES). The aim of the Handbooks is to provide illustrated identification keys to the insects of Britain, together with concise morphological, biological and distributional information.
The avian family Anatidae, commonly called waterfowl, comprise the ducks, geese, and swans. The International Ornithological Committee (IOC) recognizes these 174 Anatidae species distributed among 53 genera, 32 of which have only one species.
Taxonomic recommendations for British birds (both in PDF format). The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) and RSPB A to Z of UK Birds; Splitting headaches? Recent taxonomic changes affecting the British and Western Palaearctic lists – Martin Collinson, British Birds vol 99 (June 2006), 306–323; British Trust for Ornithology surveys
Anseriformes is an order of birds also known as waterfowl that comprises about 180 living species of birds in three families: Anhimidae (three species of screamers), Anseranatidae (the magpie goose), and Anatidae, the largest family, which includes over 170 species of waterfowl, among them the ducks, geese, and swans. Most modern species in the ...
The Macmillan Field Guides to Bird Identification are two small bird field guides.Volume 1, The Macmillan Field Guide to Bird Identification, illustrated by Alan Harris and Laurel Tucker, with text by Keith Vinicombe, was originally published in 1989, covered British birds.
The name Anatidae for the family was introduced by the English zoologist William Elford Leach in a guide to the contents of the British Museum published in 1819. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] While the status of the Anatidae as a family is straightforward, and which species properly belong to it is little debated, the relationships of the different tribes and ...
Trudgil (1989) Soil types: a field identification guide; Friday (1988) A key to the adults of British Water Beetles (freely downloadable pdf from ) Haslam et al. (1987) British water plants (revised edition) Tilling (1987) A key to the major groups of terrestrial invertebrates; Hiscock (1986) A field guide to the British Red Seaweeds (Rhodophyta)