Welcome to the Biological Records Centre website

The Biological Records Centre (BRC), established in 1964, is the national focus in the UK for terrestrial and freshwater species recording (other than birds). It works with the voluntary recording community throughout Britain and Ireland. The BRC database contains over 15 million records of more than 12000 species.

BRC is the national custodian of data on the distribution of wildlife in the British Isles. (FIND OUT MORE...)