Beginner birder - started in January 2007
Wildlife enthusiast, aerialist, music lover, scientist, photographer, nature girl, RSPB, Bumblebee Conservation and Wildlife Trust volunteer.
Avid young birder and twitcher located in the Shetland Isles
Still a work in progress! I have been though a lot of old notebooks and spreadsheets, but looking at my target list there are still plenty to add!
I think I am pretty much there with plants and moths which I have been working on today, 25/11/24.
Notes on my Biological Recording, 10/08/25:
I record plants most weeks with the Norfolk Flora Group, these records are all entered by our valiant leader, so I don't have to! I don't keep a record of these but there will have been 1000s!
All my moth records are entered on the Norfolk Moths website - currently showing a total of 2892 records.
Otherwise I just tend to just add new species or more unusual records to iRecord which is showing a total of 1015 records. I should really make more use of the various iRecord apps, which make everyday recording in the field very easy. I have used several of these apps in the past but not as a regular thing.
Most wanted species See my notes on my biological recording in additional information
Fairly casual birder though want to become a bit more dedicated, also getting into pan-listing. Especially interested in patch listing/monitoring, mostly the Stort and Lea valleys and Hatfield Forest.
My passion for natural history has been with me for as long as I can remember. My main areas of interest are invertebrates, birds, mammals, reptiles, fungi and the marine and freshwater environments. I try to spend as much time in the field as possible and am passionate about conservation of the natural world and promoting its importance to the younger generation.
Most wanted species Camberwell Beauty, Cryptic Wood White, Monarch, Queen of Spain Fritillary, Orca.
My first UK rarity was a Lesser White-fronted Goose at Slimbridge in 1973. I started a proper notebook in 1981 and moved to Canada in 2003. Now I am in Nova Scotia living on the rarity hot spot of Cape Sable Island - yay!
Author, columnist, blogger, scientist by training, former Conservation Director at RSPB, former Chair of Trustees World Land Trust.
Currently doing a year-long pan-species bioblitz of my house and garden in order to humble myself and for a book.
Most wanted species I'd quite like to see an Osprey from my garden - it seems likely and overdue to me - and a Clifden Nonpareil in my moth trap.
Founder member of BUBO, originally from Leeds, meeting the BUBO lads in Bristol. After that I did a year in Israel before returning to Leeds. I moved to Guernsey in 1998. Some people might sneer about including Channel Islands stuff on my British List but I really don't care!!
Started birding c1989, regularly twitching 1993 - 2001, then put the bins and scope down until I got back into casual birding late 2007. Been moth recording since 1998, now VC55 Leics. & Rutland CMR. Compiled first PSL list in November 2011 at 1983sp., reached 4000 on 24/09/2023. Mainly moths and other inverts these days. Will add dates/sites for more interesting species as and when I can be minded to.
I am an enthusaistic natural historian who manages a patch of wet woodland (Willow/Alder Carr) along the River Avon. I am trying to build up a detailed species list for this site.
Zookeeper who mainly works with Birds but also various Carnivore species
Very much a beginner but love finding new things... Wish I more time but enjoy doing this casually atm.
I studied classical singing for undergrad and masters, but have always been interested in wildlife. Last spring I started regularly recording my finds and have now become obsessed.
Most wanted species Araneus alsine, Thomisus onustus, Atypus affinis, Eristalis cryptarum.
Hot damn I love invertebrates.
Slowly adding records from the past from records and notes. Although I worked in a zoological collection I am only including species that have established themselves in the case of exotics.
Most wanted species All of the Orthopteroids and Carabidae thank you please
23 Y/O from NE England, been birding all my life, but seriously since 2009/10
I took early retirement from work June 2011. I have numerous hobbies but birds and wildlife generally have always interested me. Now have time to enjoy. Mainly a Yorkshire birder but have visited Norfolk.
I have birded all over Europe, in the U.S.A. and Canada, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Costa Rica, Belize, Mexico, Dominican Republic, The Gambia, Cape Verde, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Tanzania and most recently Grand Cayman. I have run The Gloster Birder website since August 2000, which has grown into a monster from humble beginnings, and could easily be a full-time job.
I was born in Hampshire but most of my formative birding years were spent in Sussex, including many fruitless hours staring at the sea off Worthing. Plenty of birding done whilst otherwise studying for a degree at Bristol University. Thereafter I spent 18 months in Israel (Didric Cuckoo plus a few hundred thousand migrating raptors), and a few years back in the UK (Sussex, Bedfordshire and Berkshire), before moving to India where I spent 17 years doing a variety of things including being a full-time Dad, part-time developer of BUBO Listing, running BirdTrack for the BTO, running my own ecommerce business, working for Nature Conservation India to promote citizen science and eBird, and then running tours through Bubo Birding. Covid brought big changes, and I'm now back in the UK working for Natural England on improving access to species data. Outside of work, I've developed Pan-species Listing and always look forward to my next birding tour to India: contact me if you'd like to visit yourself!
Most wanted species Breeding plumaged Caspian Plover
Birder when I was very young and then stopped doing it. Started again in my twenties but other things got in the way. Only really being doing this semi-seriously since 2010 and the emphasis is still on the word 'semi' here! Interested in anyone wanting to join up for a bit of birding around the West Midlands or further occasionally as petrol prices are killing me!
I am a young naturalist & twitcher from Lancashire. My main interest is birds, along with mammals, reptiles, lepidoptera and odonata.
Most wanted species Moth: Hummingbird Hawkmoth
Butterfly: Clouded Yellow
Odonata: Scarlet Darter
Bird: Little Auk
Mammal: Hedgehog
Reptile: Smooth Snake
