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iRecord is designed so that it is flexible enough to be used for a huge range of different wildlife recording needs and scenarios, and as such there are a number of different formats in which you can submit records on the iRecord website or mobile App, including a range of recording forms for different purposes, and Activities for group recording.
Butterfly App (2023)
Welcome a summary of data collected by the iRecord Butterflies mobile phone application for 2023. 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 2023
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
Here are a few of the photos recently uploaded from the Butterfly App.
Trending species
Trending recorders
Earthworm Society of Britain Soil Pit samples
| id | date | gridref | location | recorders | idguide | comment | habitat | pits | unidentified | lumbricidae | a_chlor | a_calig_pre | a_calig_post | a_cupul | a_icter | a_limic | a_longa | a_noctu | a_rosea | b_eisen | b_rubid | d_attem | d_horte | d_octae | d_pygma | d_venet | e_andre | e_fetid | e_tetra | h_ocula | k_armad | l_casta | l_festi | l_frend | l_rubel | l_terre | m_mulda | m_phosp | o_cyane | o_lacte | p_ampil | s_mamma | s_tames |
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| 12589862 | 2021-01-18 | SU59908538 | Cholsey marsh | Katie Jenks | Sherlock (2018) Earthworm AIDGAP 2nd edition | Very waterlogged. Juvenile x 4 | 011 fen | 5 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 12177976 | 2020-11-13 | SU59908538 | Cholsey marsh | Katie Jenks | Sherlock (2018) Earthworm AIDGAP 2nd edition | 3 Juv, 2 damaged | 011 fen | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 9290897 | 2020-07-13 | SU51126530 | Bowdown Woods | Katie Jenks | Sherlock (2018) Earthworm AIDGAP 2nd edition | 012 carr | 5 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 25605221 | 2024-04-25 | SD846415 | Briercliffe Farm | Keiron Derek Brown | Sherlock (2018) Earthworm AIDGAP 2nd edition | Briercliffe Farm. Wildflower Meadow. | 030 GRASSLAND | 5 | 48 | 0 | 38 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 22113847 | 2023-05-23 | SD982796 | Low Houses Farm | Keiron Derek Brown | Sherlock (2018) Earthworm AIDGAP 2nd edition | Fenced off ungrazed scrub area in between fields. Some sparse tree cover. | 053 field margin | 5 | 26 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 22113700 | 2023-05-23 | SD984978 | Hazel Brow Farm | Keiron Derek Brown | Sherlock (2018) Earthworm AIDGAP 2nd edition | Managed as meadow for decades (possibly centuries). | 030 GRASSLAND | 5 | 49 | 0 | 36 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 22044851 | 2023-05-17 | SD778379 | Cockshots Farm | Keiron Derek Brown and Carol Edmondson | Sherlock (2018) Earthworm AIDGAP 2nd edition | Low input pasture managed for wading birds. Sampled through hay time project as comparison to adjacent meadow site. Top Row Field. | 052 pasture | 5 | 97 | 0 | 25 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0 |
| 22044794 | 2023-05-16 | SD651639 | Midge Home | Keiron Derek Brown and Carol Edmondson | Sherlock (2018) Earthworm AIDGAP 2nd edition | Hay time project meadow restoration site. Pre-restoration. Wet meadow. | 030 GRASSLAND | 5 | 56 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 18095085 | 2022-04-11 | TQ203671 | Elmbridge Meadows Open Space | Keiron Derek Brown | Sherlock (2018) Earthworm AIDGAP 2nd edition | Sampled during FSCBioLinks field recorder day. Very wet soil at edge of pond. | 010 WETLAND | 5 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 18758253 | 2016-05-26 | SE639700 | Whenby | Miranda Prendergast-Miller | Sims, R.W. & Gerard B. M., (1999) Earthworms: Keys and Notes for the Identification and Study of the Species | SoilBioHedge Project. Records adapted from Prendergast-Miller, M.T.; Jones, D.T.; Hodson, M.E. (2019). Soil moisture, temperature and bulk density and earthworm abundance and biomass along transects in arable fields and ley strips in farms in North Yorkshire, England (2016). NERC Environmental Information Data Centre. https://doi.org/10.5285/a5638d26-a8be-4409-ac51-42904069d919. Hedge. Single hand-sorted soil pit (18x18x15cm). Organic ley. Transect WH A. Grass with clover, buttercups, docks; with cattle. Chose hedge with least farm tracks along the edge. Lots of rain the day before; light drizzle on sampling day. | 050 FARMLAND | 1 | 13 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 18095021 | 2022-04-11 | TQ199681 | Rose Walk Nature Reserve | Keiron Derek Brown | Sherlock (2018) Earthworm AIDGAP 2nd edition | Sampled through FSC BioLinks field recorder day. River bank habitat (Hogsmill River). | 010 WETLAND | 5 | 59 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 17476391 | 2022-02-11 | SO840683 | FSC Bishops Wood | Keiron Derek Brown | Sherlock (2018) Earthworm AIDGAP 2nd edition | Receded edge of pond during dry winter period. Sampled through the FSC BioLinks Soil Invertebrate Field Recorder Day. | 010 WETLAND | 5 | 14 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 21944296 | 2023-05-10 | TQ151841 | Paradise Fields | Keiron Derek Brown | Sherlock (2018) Earthworm AIDGAP 2nd edition | Pond edge | 015 pond/lake (bed/edge) | 5 | 91 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 33946457 | 2025-11-19 | SZ536929 | Palmers Field 15 | Helen Gillooly | Sherlock (2018) Earthworm AIDGAP 2nd edition | 5x pits, 4x arranged in a square with the 5th positioned centrally. Soil categorised as Silty Clay Loam (soil testing for mineral content) and soilscapes number 18 'Slowly permeable seasonally wet slightly acid but base-rich loamy and clayey soils'. Ex-arable site being repurposed for rewilding. No conservation grazing applied to the site yet. Thick waterlogged clay field. | 030 GRASSLAND | 5 | 149 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 29941424 | 2025-05-12 | TQ152213 | Knepp Estate | Keiron Derek Brown | Sherlock (2018) Earthworm AIDGAP 2nd edition | Knepp Estate - Middle Block. River restoration site. Wetland (floodplain). Sampling following very dry spring. | 010 WETLAND | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 20817357 | 2022-11-14 | TQ203651 | Tolworth Court Farm Moated Manor | Keiron Derek Brown & Kerry Calloway | Sherlock (2018) Earthworm AIDGAP 2nd edition | FSC BioLinks earthworm survey of Tolworth Court Farm Moated Manor. Dried up pond. | 015 pond/lake (bed/edge) | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 32831111 | 2025-11-20 | J505789 | Balloo Wetland | Keiron Derek Brown | Sherlock (2018) Earthworm AIDGAP 2nd edition | Wet glassland | 010 WETLAND | 10 | 72 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Butterfly App (2022)
Welcome a summary of data collected by the iRecord Butterflies mobile phone application for 2022. If you have just submitted records, please note that it can take a few minutes for your records to appear on the reports.
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.