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The Importance of Your Wildlife Records
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The Importance of Your Wildlife Records

In the next in a new series, Charlotte Rankin explores the difference your wildlife records can make, both locally and across the UK…

18 February 2021

Biological Recording | Citizen Science | Wildlife Records

Species on the map: the basics of wildlife recording
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Species on the map: the basics of wildlife recording

In the first in a new series, Charlotte Rankin explores how you can make the most of your sightings through wildlife recording….

11 February 2021

Biological Recording | Citizen Science | Wildlife Recording

Finding Bees
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Finding Bees

Philip Jordan shares six things he has learnt whilst taking part in the North East Bee Hunt…

16 July 2020

Bees | Biological Recording | Citizen Science | North East Bee Hunt

Hundreds get to grips with biological recording at Gosforth Park Nature Reserve
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Hundreds get to grips with biological recording at Gosforth Park Nature Reserve

With clouds brewing and unsettled weather for the whole day, we weren’t entirely sure how our first ever Bioblitz at…

30 April 2019

Bioblitz | Biological Recording | ERIC | Gosforth Nature Reserve

Five great apps for the modern naturalist
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Five great apps for the modern naturalist

Times are changing, and whether you welcome the shift towards a more technologically advanced age of wildlife-recording, or not, apps…

9 August 2018

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