Recording

Submitted by Gaynor Norman on

This is the most difficult and frustrating site I’ve ever used. It takes me up to an hour to enter one record and today I have given up.

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Submitted by James Emerson on Tue, 14/07/2026 - 12:38

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That's a shame to hear. Generally it is quite quick to add records, and if you save the details for the sites you visit often it becomes even quicker. Rather than give up, can you describe what the problem is?

Submitted by Caroline Rigg on Sun, 26/07/2026 - 12:24

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Why, when I enter records for my home and garden in Bristol BS3, do they always come up as West Gloucestershire? In fact Bristol is correctly the CITY and COUNTY of BRISTOL - if this is too difficult for you the most accurate (and more appropriate) location to use would be North Somerset, NOT West Gloucestershire.

Submitted by Oliver Pescott on Fri, 31/07/2026 - 09:53

In reply to by Caroline Rigg

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Dear Caroline, UK and Irish biological recording use Watsonian vice-county boundaries, mainly for historical stability. The iRecord determination is based on that. See e.g. https://www.cucaera.co.uk/grp27700/?refs=&map=ordnance&vcs=true&graticule=true&nsgrids=false&zoom=7&lat=53.32725129651491&lon=-1.5369675810799526&distinct=false&bedrock=false&superficial=false&sketches= to confirm this. Also see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vice-county for educational purposes. Best wishes, BRC

Submitted by Deborah Deveney on Fri, 14/08/2026 - 13:17

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I'm trying to add my bird survey data into my Activity but the background OS maps and aerial mapping doesn't seem to be available when zooming in as before - why has this been removed?  It's not at all easy to add all my bird records on in the exact location - I usually use the OS contour lines on my paper map to guide me where to enter the records.  Are the OS map & aerial map backgrounds being instated at all?

Submitted by Colin Knight on Sun, 16/08/2026 - 20:09

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Once again I have added 32 records, the next 3 it wouldn't recognise either the common or scientific name so I entered location details and clicked save,. It whirred away then finished with a timed out message. All that work for nothing. It didn't used to do this. This is the 2nd time recently. If this carries on I will stop recording.

Submitted by Oliver Pescott on Mon, 17/08/2026 - 09:43

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Dear Colin, To allow us to investigate this can you specify whether you are referring to the website or the app please? If the app, which way of entering records? If the website, which specific page? Many thanks, BRC