Hear about the Supporting Science project from Butterfly Conservation, and how they are improving the verification process for butterflies and moths.
Category Archives: Biological recording
Shifting Ground: The Ground Beetle Recording Scheme on iRecord
Chris Foster discusses the Ground Beetle Recording Scheme’s work with iRecord.
Ten Years of Talking to People About iRecord: A County Perspective on Online Recording
Clare Blencowe chats about how Sussex Biodiversity Records Centre has adopted iRecord for local recording and the lessons that have been learnt.
How iRecord Helps a Local Wildlife Group
John Lindley discusses how his village set up a local group to monitor their local biodiversity.
Why iRecord? Virtual Symposium
In April 2023, we partnered with the National Forum for Biological Recording and Biological Records Centre to put together a programme of talks that showcase how some organisations are using, and improving, iRecord to gather biodiversity data and you can find the presentation recordings below.
No Brain, No Problem? 20 Years of the National Jellyfish Survey
Amy Pilsbury (Marine Conservation Society) discusses the National Jellyfish Survey and what the data can tell us about these weird and wonderful marine invertebrates.
Wriggling Into Recording: 10 Years of the National Earthworm Recording Scheme
Keiron Derek Brown (Earthworm Society) discusses how the data generated by biological recorders and earthworm researchers is improving our understanding of British and Irish earthworms.
2022 National Earthworm Recording Scheme Review
2022 has been a great year for earthworm recording, with 2,185 new earthworm species occurrence records generated! 25 out of the 31 species known to occur in natural environments in the British Isles were recorded, including our first-ever earthworm species records for the Isle of Man. Alongside new and existing earthworm recorders, I’ve been involvedContinue reading “2022 National Earthworm Recording Scheme Review”
Make Your Wildlife Observations Count
We worked with Buckinghamshire and Milton Keynes Environmental Records Centre to produce the Make Your Wildlife Observations Count webinar series that covered some of the do’s and don’ts of wildlife recording, with the aim of helping naturalists and recorders generate accurate and high-quality biodiversity data.
365 Days of Earthworms
“Worms have played a more important part in the history of the world than most persons would at first suppose” Charles Darwin (1881) The Formation of Vegetable Mould Through the Actions of Worms It’s officially over… 2021 is behind us. As National Recorder for Earthworms it’s my responsibility to process all of the earthworm recordsContinue reading “365 Days of Earthworms”