County Recorders

Britain is one of the best biologically recorded countries in the world thanks to the dedication of voluntary recorders. County Recorders are a network of appointed specialist volunteers who act as co-ordinators for receiving and checking records from across the county for their particular interest group. They play a very important role in verifying records of rare, unusual and difficult to identify species.

Wiltshire's County Recorders

Wiltshire has a large number of County Recorders (many of whom have been recording for a number of years) who give up their time to carry out this role for their specialist group. You can send in your records for these groups to the relevant County Recorder who may also be able to help you in identifying particular sightings. 

They in turn exchange these records with the WSBRC on a regular basis. To assist with verification your contact details may be passed onto the relevant County Recorder. Many also provide the WSBRC and others with ecological information for individual species along with help in the identification of specimens.

Some County Recorders, especially for small or specialist groups, record across the whole county. Others record either the north or the south of the county using the Watsonian Vice-County boundaries first drawn up to assist the recording of flowering plants. Where groups are divided into North and South Wiltshire, the Kennet and Avon Canal is taken as the dividing line.

Use the links opposite to see the contact details for the County Recorders, alternatively download the leaflet Keeping Track of Wiltshire's Wildlife which has the contact details for Wiltshire's County Recorders.

Vacancies

Most of the major groups of plants and animals are now covered, vacancies still exist with specialist identification skills in many invertebrate groups including Hemiptera (true bugs). 

For these and any other groups not listed opposite, please contact us at the WSBRC. We are always keen to hear from anybody who may be interested in becoming a County Recorder for a group not currently included.

Annual Reports

Use the links opposite to read the County Recorders annual reports. For many groups there are reports going back to 1997. Older reports can be downloaded to read, recent reports can either read directly, or downloaded.

Any views expressed therein are not necessarily those of the Wiltshire and Swindon Biological Records Centre (WSBRC) or the Wiltshire Wildlife Trust (WWT).