Records and Sightings

EcoRecord currently holds over 330,000 records for over 4,000 species. This database is held on the Joint Nature Conservation Committee's "Recorder" database, together with information describing over 500 conservation sites throughout the Black Country and Birmingham.

This information is only as good as the records supplied to the Records Centre. To this end, EcoRecord requires up-to-date records of plants and animals throughout the region. These records come from a wide variety of sources, including the local authorities, local nature conservation societies and the general public.

The supply of information is essential to the value of the Records Centre. If you want to send records in to EcoRecord, please include at least the following information:

• WHAT - The name of the species, preferably including scientific name
• WHERE - The location of the sighting, including a grid reference if possible
• WHO - The person(s) recording the species, including the identifier for more difficult species
• WHEN - The date of the sighting

In addition other information is always valuable in the later analysis of data; e.g. abundance, habitat, etc.

For larger comprehensive surveys within the area, EcoRecord can supply checklists of Vascular Plants; Birds; Other Vertebrates; Freshwater Life and "Popular" Insects free of charge together with a standard reporting form for describing the quality of a site, on condition that reports are copied to EcoRecord on completion.

Your records can be e-mailed to EcoRecord or sent via snail mail to:

28 Harborne Road Edgbaston, Birmingham. B15 3AA

© EcoRecord 2000
Last updated 30 July 2000

EcoRecord is operated by the Wildlife Trust for Birmingham and the Black Country and JDT (Mott-MacDonald)
on behalf of Birmingham City Council and the Metropolitan Boroughs of Dudley, Sandwell, Walsall and Wolverhampton.