Freshwater Recorders Workshop: 9th October, Lancaster

The Biological Records Centre (BRC) and BugLife held a freshwater biological recorders workshop on the 9th October at CEH Lancaster. The workshop was attended by representatives of the freshwater recording community including volunteer recording scheme organisers, NGOs working to support recording of freshwater species and habitats, local records centres and ALERC.

The overarching aims of the workshop were to:

Mobile apps for species identification and recording

The Biological Records Centre has collaborated with a number of recording schemes and mobile app developers to launch a range of smartphone apps in the past 5 years. These apps provide identification resources and aim to make it easy to submit wildlife records. The sightings go to iRecord, allowing recorders to see all their observations in one place.