Gloucestershire Naturalists' Society

Recording

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GNS Recording

Full details of the Society's recording activities can be found in this PDF document (Use the browser "Back" button to return to this page). You will need the Adobe Acrobat Reader® to view this file.

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This page includes a summary of key details about wildlife recording in Gloucestershire.

The Society's official recording area is the whole of the vice-counties 33 (East Gloucestershire) and 34 (West Gloucestershire). However, for practical purposes certain recorders only cover the administrative county of Gloucestershire, comprising the districts of Cotswold, Stroud, Forest of Dean, Cheltenham, Gloucester and Tewkesbury, as the Bristol Naturalists' Society covers the Unitary Authority of South Gloucestershire and the City of Bristol.

The Society welcomes observations and records from members and others and these can be sent by email. Ideally the following information should be supplied:

• Species name.
• Where seen - name of location, preferably using names taken from the 1:50000 Ordnance Survey maps, plus a six figure grid reference (if in doubt include a sketch map of the site). It is helpful if the tetrad number is also given. For sightings from the Cotswold Water Park give the official County Council pit number wherever possible.
• Number or abundance.
• Habitat.
• Where appropriate a description of the species or a note of how identification was made including details of any identifications aids used.
• Date.
• Any other relevant information
• Observer's name and address.

The precise details of rare species will be kept confidential in the interests of conservation and records should be clearly marked "Confidential" if they are to be so treated.

The most interesting records are published by the Society, but all records are valuable in building up a picture of the present status and distribution of species in our countryside, for compiling annual reports and for updating our records and those at the Gloucestershire Environmental Data Unit and the national Biological Records Centre.

The Society's team of recorders covers the following groups:

• Birds
• Mammals
• Reptiles and Amphibians
• Invertebrates
      Butterflies
      Moths
      Dragonflies
      Hoverflies and Ladybirds
      Ants, Bees and Wasps
      Grasshoppers, Bush-Crickets, Earwigs and Cockroaches
      Spiders
      Woodlice, Centipedes, Millipedes, Harvestmen, and Freshwater Invertebrates
      Bugs, Beetles, Sawflies, Flies, Bark Flies and False Scorpions
      Land and Freshwater Molluscs
      Ectoparasites
• Flowering plants, Ferns and Stoneworts
• Mosses and Liverworts
• Fungi

The Society is always on the look out for new recorders to fill vacant positions (e.g. fish) or to cover groups not listed above - no matter how obscure! Anyone willing to undertake these tasks or to organise/help organise surveys in the county should get in touch.

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