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Species on the map: The Importance of Your Wildlife Records
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Species on the map: 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

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North East Bee Hunt 2020 Update #9
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North East Bee Hunt 2020 Update #9

You have now shared a fantastic 1750 records as part of the North East Bee Hunt. Below, Charlotte Rankin summarises your records and observations over the last two weeks….

31 July 2020

Bees | Citizen Science | Invertebrates | North East | North East Bee Hunt

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

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North East Bee Hunt 2020 Update #6
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North East Bee Hunt 2020 Update #6

You have now shared a fantastic 1200 records as part of the North East Bee Hunt. In a new post, Charlotte Rankin summarises your records and observations over the last two weeks….

18 June 2020

Bee Hunt | Citizen Science | North East Bee Hunt | Pollinators

Smart phone apps to help you enjoy nature
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Smart phone apps to help you enjoy nature

As technology develops, natural history apps are helping many people come closer to nature. Discover seven apps you can use at home to identify, study, and enjoy wildlife….

26 May 2020

Apps | Birds | Citizen Science | Ecology | Natural History Apps

The North East Bee Hunt: A Naturalist’s Refuge During Isolation
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The North East Bee Hunt: A Naturalist’s Refuge During Isolation

Local naturalist, Cal Ritchie, provides a personal take on bee recording in the North East during lockdown….

19 May 2020

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North East Bee Hunt 2020 Update #3
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North East Bee Hunt 2020 Update #3

Join Charlotte Rankin for the next of our fortnightly North East Bee Hunt updates…

6 May 2020

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

Five citizens science projects you can help with at home
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Five citizens science projects you can help with at home

Make the most of your wildlife observations and discover five citizen science schemes you can help with at home…

20 April 2020

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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

Apps | Biological Recording | Citizen Science

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