Recorders
County Recorders are the main contact for their chosen groups within Huntingdonshire District and Peterborough. They will assist with the identification of specimens and prepare reports on their chosen group. Click on the email address links below to submit a record. We do currently have some positions vacant, so if this is your field are you are interested in being a County Recorder, please contact us by clicking on the Position Vacant below. One of these species groups may be your specialist interest or perhaps you would like the opportunity to learn more about a more obscure species group which is not so well known.
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The Biological Records Centre provides a list of national recording schemes and mobile phone Apps they are involved with.
If you do send records to any of these schemes, including iRecords, NBN or CPREC please send a copy direct to the County Recorder so your records can be logged on the County database and included in the Annual Report.
Group Name
Recorders - Main Internet Links
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Mammal
The Cambridge Mammal Group provide a link to iRecord via ‘Sightings’. The Mammal Society has a mobile phone app.
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Birds
Records can be sent to the Cambridge Bird Club on the BTO revised spreadsheet. At a national level the BTO “Birdtrack” is an option.
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Amphibians and Reptiles
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Amphibian and Reptile Group have a “Record a sighting” form.
Fish
There is a national biological recording scheme run by Biological Records Centre.
Flowering Plants
Send records directly to the Recorder who maintains BSBI records for Vice County 31.
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Plant Galls
Please send records or queries to the County Recorder. See the British Plant Gall Society for more information.
Fungi
Please send records or queries to the County Recorder. See the British Mycological Society web site for more information.
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Lichens
Records go directly to the British Lichen Society via the recording forms accessible from the downloads page. Online recording is also possible via iRecord.
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Bryophytes (Mosses and liverworts)
Records submitted via the County Recorder or to the British Bryological Society. On https://websites.rbge.org.uk/bbs/Recording/vc31.htm
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Coleoptera (Beetles)
See UK Beetle Recording for more information.
Diptera (Flies)
See the Society for the study of flies (Diptera) for more information.
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Aculeate Hymenoptera (Ants, Bees and Wasps)
See the section in the Bees, Wasps and Ants Recording Society have a ‘How to submit records page’.
Lepidoptera (Butterflies and moths)
The County Recorder is the main contact for records in Huntingdonshire see the Huntingdon Moth and Butterfly Group (HMBG). Butterfly Conservation also repatriate records to County Recorders for verification, about once a year.
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Caddisflies
The County Recorder is the main contact for records in Huntingdonshire. There is a national web site, see The Riverfly Partnership
Lacewings and Allies
There is a national Lacewings and Allies Recording Scheme, which encourages records working in collaboration with iRecord and NBN.
Orthoptera and Allied Species (Grasshoppers and allied species)
J Milne
Post only:
45 Beech Drive, St Ives, Huntingdon, PE27 6UB
01480 462853.
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Odonata (Dragonflies)
The British Dragonfly Society uses iRecord to submit records.
Hemiptera (True Bugs)
See British Bugs for information on recording.
Arachnida (Spiders)
Send records to the County Recorder for inclusion in the British Arachnological Society records.
Mollusca (Slugs and snails)
Random Records
For species which are not covered by the above groups or if you aren't sure which category they should go in, please email us directly.