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i am trying to add butterfly peacock also tried scientififc name but will not accept but it worked fine last week so i cant add my records?

The box to search the site seems to have disappeared - at least for me it has. Anyone else? Makes it hard to find things (e.g..past forum posts) that you know are there but don't know where to browse to. Can this be restored please?

Mark

I posted this 5 days ago in the Feedback and Suggestions section but no response yet so I'm trying here. I've tried to upload again this morning (21.03.2022) with the same error. I've copied my original post below...

Just checked my Data Summary and a couple of hundred records and a dozen species seem to have disappeared from the last time I checked !?!? Anyone know what thats all about.?

We had Chiffchaff in the woods this morning, I saw the first Sparrowhawk hunting yesterday evening (Not see one over the woods for ages) So we will be on the look out for Swallows. Its a sure sign when the fieldfares flock up in bushes and sing their farewells.

I have been entering historic data ie pre 1970s via the import spreadsheet option.

All is ok with dates after c1970s, but earlier than that I get an error saying the date is in the future.

I get around this by inputting dates by hand.

Is this a known problem and is there another solution?

We're being deluged by spam.  On the title page we read "Protected by Spam Master"; that doesn't seem to be working.  Reading Forum posts is now rather tedious ploughing through the trash.  I just had to state the obvious.

Hello, I am unsure when to use the aggregates given in the species drop down list because in my mind it implies there are a number of species that I should understand before not choosing the agg. However I wanted to record Ligustrum vulgare: drop down list for Lig vul gives Ligustrum vulgare, Ligustrum vulgare agg. and the vulgare x ovalifolium hybrid. I cannot find any reference to an aggregate (Stace 3, NBN, BSBI Atlas). It has been suggested that iRecord uses the term when distinguishing species might be difficult rather than just recording to genus?

I wonder if the scope and geographical spread of iRecord has changed to include a huge area, and not just the land area of the UK and Ireland and the seas around?

If you go to Explore All records, there are now mapped data from west of the USA to India, from far north down to West Africa. These are both from the sea and from land.

Please can anyone explain what is going on?

Thank you

I regularly download iRecord data for the Doncaster LRC database. I notice some stupid recorder names such as "forever_failure" and "kissitbeta". Uses of such names are not in my opinion conducive with the content of a scientific record. If recorders are not prepared to use correct and sensible names then I will not in future accept the record. Perhaps the iRecord management team could instil in recorders and determiners the importance of a correct and meaningful recorder/determiner name. A scientific record is incomplete without a legitimate recorder/determiner authority.