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iRecord video guides

A number of video guides to various aspects of iRecord are available, and these are listed below. They have been produced by a range of organisations and do not necessarily represent the views of iRecord, BRC or UKCEH, but all contain useful information and we are grateful to the organisations and individuals who have made them available, and especially to Keiron Derek Brown who has produced many of the videos in this list.

VMFW Farmland Bird Survey

This recording form is for entering bird observations collected by volunteers participating in the Volunteer Monitoring of Farm Wildlife project.

 

Personal details

Please provide your first name

Please provide your surname

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Please provide your email address. This will only be used to contact you if we require further information to verify the record.

 

Please add the recorder's name, if it is not already shown, using the format "Surname, First name"

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Select the date of the record.

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Enter the species name using * as a wildcard

 

If anyone helped with the identification please enter their name here

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Please indicate the life stage of the bird(s), if recorded.

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Please enter your best estimate of the number of individuals seen

 

Please enter any evidence of breeding, if seen

 

Please indicate the sex of the bird(s), if recorded.

 

How certain of this identification are you?

Sensitivity

This is the precision that the record will be shown at for public viewing

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Provide the unique code/identifier for the field that the species was recorded in (as shown on the field map provided to you by the project team).

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Or simply click on your rough position on the map.


Verifying iNaturalist records

We are now importing records from iNaturalist into iRecord, in order to make them available to national recording schemes and local environmental records centres. iNaturalist records can be downloaded from iNaturalist itself, but the import process to iRecord makes them available for verification, links them to the UK Species Inventory, and to UK grid references and vice-counties.

Butterfly App Info Centre 2021

Welcome a summary of data collected by the iRecord Butterflies mobile phone application for 2021.  If you have just submitted records, please note that it can take a few minutes for your records to appear on the reports.

Butterfly App totals so far for 2021

Recorders Species Counts League

Recorders Record Counts League

Counties Species Counts League

*Vice counties are a version of the county boundaries which don't keep changing, so they are very useful for biological records.

Counties Records Counts League

Enter a list of moth records (for a site on a date, for a single sampling method)

This recording form allows you to record moths. If you also wish to record other species groups such as beetles and flies found in your moth-trap there is now a "moth-trap intruders" recording form you can use.

Personal details
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Please provide your email. This will only be used to contact you if we require further information to verify the record.

Please provide your first name

Please provide your surname

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Enter the recorder's name, if not already shown.

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Enter the type of trap used, or other recording method

Step 1
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 Select a species first
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Click in the species box and start typing a species name (English or scientific). Use * as a wildcard. You can use a 2+3 abbreviation for the scientific name: first two letters of genus followed by first three letters of species. A list of suggestions will pop up from which you can select with mouse or arrow keys and tab.
Enter the quantity seen as a number (or leave blank to simply indicate presence) - do not use zero. Select the life stage, plus the sex if known.
For "Identified By" enter the name of the person who identified the species (sometimes called the "determiner"), if different from the recorder name given.
Add a comment if needed, to provide further information about the record. Tab between the attribute fields.

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Provide the name of the site. Do not enter a postal address as the information you provide will be visible to others.

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Or simply click on your rough position on the map.


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