Wildlife Recording Tips

Biological recording is the scientific study of the distribution of living organisms. Biological records describe the presence, abundance, associations and changes, both in time and space, of wildlife.

However, you don’t need to be a scientist to contribute to biological recording – indeed the vast majority of biological records come from volunteer recorders, naturalists and citizen scientists.

Here at the Buckinghamshire and Milton Keynes Environmental Records Centre, we have worked with Biological Recording expert Keiron Brown to run a series of webinars on some of the do’s and don’ts of wildlife recording, with the aim of helping naturalists and recorders generate accurate and high-quality biodiversity data.

A link to the webinar recordings is here:

Make Your Wildlife Observations Count – Biological Recording

The webinars cover the following useful tips for helping volunteers to record the range of flora and fauna in Buckinghamshire and Milton Keynes:

• The Basics
• Record Resolution
• Data Quality
• Sharing Records
• Understanding Grid References
• Site Names
• Recording on a Walk
• iNaturalist