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The verification grid

By default the grid displays only those records that have not yet been verified. You can use the filter settings to change this if you want to see the records that have already been verified (see Filtering records in the grid). This page explains the verious elements on the verificaiton grid: 

What verifiers are asked to do

iRecord provides access to wildlife records submitted by a wide range of people. The records may have been added directly to iRecord, or may come via other websites and apps that share data with iRecord for verification purposes. 

Verifiers are asked to assess which records are acceptable for their recording scheme, and give each one an appropriate status, using a set of terms that show whether a record has been accepted or not, and on what basis that decision has been made.

How to become a verifier

Verifiers on iRecord are set up by agreement with relevant national recording schemes and societies (including county recorders for those schemes/societies), or for particular recording projects. Some recording schemes and societies have an extremely well developed network of verifiers, and produce their own guidance to support the process, whilst others currently have few verifiers and no specific guidance, for a wide range of reasons.

Record: Upload records from a spreadsheet

These Help pages are for a new version of the iRecord spreadsheet importer that we made available on 8 August 2024. Please let us know ([email protected]) if you have any corrections to add, or encounter any difficulties.

If you have wildlife records stored in a spreadsheet it is possible to import them into iRecord if you wish to do so, as an alternative to entering them directly onto the iRecord website or app.

Enter a bird record

This recording form is for entering bird observations, including information on breeding status.

 

This record is being submitted to iRecord. If you have an iRecord account, please log in so that this sighting appears in your records. If you are not already registered with iRecord we highly recommend to register so that you can view your previous records and use all the site’s facilities. However, you can continue without registering by providing your details below. We ask for these in case we need to contact you when verifying your sighting. They will not be used for any other purpose.
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.

 

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.


Butterfly App (2024)

Welcome a summary of data collected by the iRecord Butterflies mobile phone application for 2024.  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 2024

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

British Plant Gall Society Survey

This is a recording form for lists of plant gall records from a single site, date, and recorder. They will feed into the British Plant Gall Society Recording Scheme. Importantly, the form includes bespoke fields for host plant and other associated organisms (e.g. inquilines, parasitoids and predators). Click on the end of a row to expand the associated organism fields. 

We are in the process of setting up a network of regional verifiers across Britain; if a verifier is not active in your region then hopefully there will be one in the near future. Your records will help to build up our knowledge about gall-causer distributions, ecology, and conservation imperatives.

For identifying gall-causers, we recommend the excellent illustrated keys in British Plant Galls (3rd edition) by Margaret Redfern, Peter Shirley and Michael Bloxham. Updates to the keys are published periodically by Sam Buckton in the 'Files' section of the British Plant Galls Facebook group, which is also a supportive learning community and a great place to obtain identifications of galls you're unsure about. Updates will also be published on the British Plant Gall Society website in the near future.

See also the in-progress checklist of British gall-causer species, which includes advice about recording grades and information about species' national scarcity and recording/conservation priority status. Further information about galls, including a treasure trove of photos, is available elsewhere on the Society's website.

We recommend subscribing to the British Plant Gall Society in order to receive the Society's journal Cecidology, which is the world's only journal dedicated to plant galls. It features articles at the forefront of the fast-moving world of cecidology in Britain and beyond.

 

Please enter the species you saw and any other information about them.
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Click the + symbol at the right of the row to record the associated organisms. The + will appear once you have added a species name
Please provide the spatial reference of the record. You can enter the reference directly, or search for a place then click on the map to set it.
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