Your Records

All environmental records are important, from the most common to the rarest, from the flocks of birds in the air to the fish in the river; we would like to hear about what you see in Wiltshire. If you have already sent us records, thank you very much. We are always interested in receiving more. We would rather receive duplicate records than none at all.

There are four essentials to remember in order to provide us with really useful records:

* What is the precise species - give the scientific (Latin) and/or English name (if there is one).

* Where did you see it - give a precise location, a six figure grid reference or postcode (urban areas).

* When did you see it - day, month, year.

* Who identified it - give their name. If it was not you, then give us their name as well.

You can either send us your records by post or by e-mail, or by using our species recording form.

If you wish to submit lots of records (for example, botanical records or records from a site), use the excel recording form to fill in with your records and then email back into us (although we are happy to have them on paper or in other software formats – just contact us for more details). There are a couple of examples already entered so you see the type of information we need. There are also some hints on the form to help you out. You can also download recording forms for recording a single species, or for recording multiple species, or for recording multiple species on a single site; these can be printed out and returned to us when completed.

We are happy to accept out-of-county records that we can pass on to the relevant Local Records Centre, on your behalf. However, if you have non-Wiltshire records you can submit them directly - the following link will take you to a list of contact details for all the Local Record Centres (LRCs) or equivalent organisations throughout the UK.