Most recording has been done through contract work and much of my material has been identified by other people. Mainly active in Suffolk and Essex.
I've been birding since about age 6 and am now rather older than that. I started my "real" birding in Suffolk during family holidays when I went to proper birding places, like Minsmere, as opposed to watching in my granny's back garden in Surrey (full of Turtle Doves in those days). I then graduated to Dungeness where I spent many a happy (and slightly hung-over) a day. Having lived and been birding in Yorkshire for 21 years I moved to Orkney in August 2009 - ambition a self-found list of 300.
Most wanted species Bombus distinguendus
Carabus monilis
Carabus nitens
Chrysolina cerealis
Chrysolina graminis
Emus hirtus
{Radnor Lily} Gagea bohemica
Gnorimus nobilis
{Twinflower} Linnaea borealis
Obera oculata
{Blue Heath} Phyllodoce caerulea
{Purbeck Mason Wasp} Pseudepipona herrichii
{Fiery Clearwing} Pyropteron chrysidiformis
Saperda scalaris
Briefly birder, then bryophyte-er, then fungi-er, then ...
Started PSL as cataloguing my local patch (Cullaloe LNR) before taking it further afield. Still get a nosebleed outside VC85.
Keen birder since 1994 or thereabouts, still quite a few signficant gaps in my UK list, but it's fun plugging them in slowly. Not averse to the odd twitch, as long as it's not too far away!
I am the current CEO of BTO. A birder since the age of 7, with note-taking and specialist trips starting in 1971. Late onto the world scene, I'm never going to be a big world-lister, but now choosing a 'bucket-list' of 50 most desirable species world-wide. British, Self-found British and Norfolk lists all relatively important.
I don't twitch outside Kent these days, unless I am in Dorset, then I don't twitch outside Dorset.
Interested in Birds, Moths and Mammals anywhere really.
Not particularly fussed about a BOU life list, but keener on my Kent list and seeing new species abroad.
Joint architect of BUBO Listing and Pan-Species Listing with Mike Prince. Originally from Leeds, spent six years in Bristol, a couple of years in Cornwall and have lived in Norfolk since 1996. Worked 25 years at BTO, but now a freelance ecologist specialising in invertebrate surveys. In spare time (hah!) I can mostly be found bug-bothering in south Norfolk.
Most wanted species Self-found Hawk Owl. Or more realistically, self-found Death's-head.
Butterfly recorder for VC95, Moray. Scottish GMS co-ordinator and database manager. Active in Butterfly Conservation Highland Branch and Inverness Botany Group. I record all species I can identify - if we don't know where it is, we can't conserve it!
Most wanted species Marsh Fritillary butterfly, Clifden Nonpareil moth, Beautiful Demoiselle damselfly.
All records photographed under iNaturalist username Mullan15
Please do not hesitate to reach out for more information about any records, including photographs.
Based in Essex but occasionally found elsewhere across southern England. Current MA student in Sports Journalism (I know - nothing to do with PSL but having two hobbies is healthy, right?!)
Started listing birds in 2009 (aged 6) and slowly branched out into 'other stuff' around 2014/15. Focused on birding primarily until 2023 but now avid amateur PSL'er!
Most wanted species Anything from any group I haven't recorded from yet - Comb-jellies, Tunicates, Platyhelminth Worms etc. Also any native British bird not yet on my list, and Hedgehog - my biggest bogey!
A young birder from the Surrey/London border.
Was an Ecological Consultant based in Lincolnshire but now a freelance ecological surveyor (mainly birds, botany and badgers). Not a twitcher, much prefer finding my own local good birds. Local patch: Trent Port area, Marton, Lincs.
Keen birder with a real interest in Irish listing and Western Palearctic birds.
Most wanted species Golden Nightjar
Lapsed birder and traveller!
Been birding since 1977 ,used to be BTO RR Ayrshire,and name listed in 88-91 new atlas of breeding birds on page 9.Spend a lot of time in North-east England,and local patching,only the odd twitch.Life list for Britain 339.
Moved to Orkney this year (2024), a whole new area to get excited about!
My mum bought me Witherby's Popular Handbook to British Birds for my 12th birthday in 1967. We were on holiday on the shores of Loch Carron, the first bird I used it to identify was an Oystercatcher.
In the 70's I was a regular at Spurn Bird Observatory, where Barry Spence showed me my first Death's Head Hawk-moth.
In the 80's I became the chair of trustees at Dungeness Bird Observatory.
Work took over for a while and, on retiring, I didn't want to 'go back'. So, I decided to be a Gilbert White wannabee instead and take an interest in everything.
This year (2024) saw me do three FSC courses, volunteer for the SWT, and survey moths regularly at 3 reserves. Plus the Bioscan and Nocturnal Parasitoids projects.
So, if you bump into an eccentric old gimmer with a campervan, scratching around in a hedge bottom somewhere in Sussex looking confused, that might well be me.
Just a guy trying to see as many species as possible
3rd year university student studying BSc Ecology and Wildlife Conservation. C permit Bird Ringer. Place to record the few lists I keep.
Well I have been birding since I gained enough strength in my arms to raise a pair of bins, I look at every thing Birds, Mammals, Butterflies, Moths, Reptiles, Beetles, Women, Amphibians and any thing I can get my hands on. I am based in Cornwall.
Only added a few things here so far - lots more to come in due course
Have been twitching in the UK since 1976 and globally since 2001. Most birding trips abroad are out of season due to the work constraints of teaching which means that holidays dates are not flexible.
Started panlisting properly on January 1st 2024 with exactly 2000 species. Started birding in 2001 when I was 15, and that was it for 15 years until moths took over my whole life. Now trying to identify any bycatch to my garden moth trap. All good fun.
Most wanted species High Brown & Glanville Fritillary, Mountain Ringlet, Long-tailed Blue to complete the resident butterflies. Stag Beetle. Orca, Hazel Dormouse. Garden Tiger! Dog Stinkhorn, Red Cage Fungus, Devil’s Fingers. Any orchids, Henbane. Sandrunners. Hypercallia citrinalis, Pseudotelphusa paripunctella, Dasycera oliviella, Commophila aeneana…this list could go on forever…
