I've been contributing to the Encyclopaedia of Life project (www.eol.org) since I was on Flickr I think. I just found out about something that is similar, called iNaturalist. (http://www.inaturalist.org)

Essentially it allows you to add photos of wildlife you've seen, tagging them with their full latin names (and helping with identifications if you're not sure through the community). The coolest feature though is that it's kind of like an anoraks tick-list, in that it gives you a break down of all your "Observations" by species etc.

It's quite cool to see that I have seen and photographed 64 species of birds and 121 species of insect for instance (still adding all my insects).

Just thought I'd share it in case it's of interest to others here.

Certainly looks like they could be useful, nothing worse than trying to identify some random bug or something that you've taken pictures of, don't quite think I'll bother with the tick-list, that's a bit too anoraky lol.

For UK ID's, your best bet is to use www.ispot.org.uk tbh. I'm just using inat for the anorak tick list

And it might have come in handy already trying to identify the owl I saw tonight, quick search for owl and someone was describing an owl and had a couple of blurry pics and that looks fairly similar to what I saw.