One of the important roles of the Society is to hold comprehensive and on-going records of species occurring on the Isle of Wight. We do this by appointing Recorders who are specialists in their particular group. The duties of Recorders are to receive and verify records and hold comprehensive data about those groups for which they have responsibility. Increasingly, this information is held electronically. Recorders are local experts in their field and they are a fund of information. Everyone is encouraged to send any records of interest to the relevant Recorder.
The Isle of Wight is vice-county 10, for information about the vice-county system click
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Sending in your records
Below is a list for those wishing to send in records to the Society, showing who deals with each group of species. In some cases we lack a specialist Recorder and general enquiries can be sent to Colin and Anne at the IWC Countryside Section, where they will try to help. When sending records please try to include as much detail as possible ; this makes them far more useful. Please include if you can :-
Species = name of species
Recorder = whoever saw the species (and identified it?)
Date = as nearly as possible
Location = name of the place from a map
OS grid ref = if possible
Comment = anything you like!
This is the current (April 2011) list of Recorders and their Amanuenses:
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Red Squirrels |
Helen Butler |
PO Box 33,
Ryde, Isle of Wight
PO33 1BN
Tel : 611003
E : wightsquirrels(at)hotmail.com |
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Bats, Flowering plants and Ferns |
Colin Pope |
Tel : 823099, E : colin.pope(at)iow.gov.uk |
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Birds |
Robin Attrill |
17 Waterhouse Moor, Harlow, Essex, CM18 6BA
Tel : 01279 423 467, E : robin(at)rpattrill.freeserve.co.uk |
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Lichen |
Sheila Street |
E : streetecology(at)yahoo.co.uk |
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Marine Mammals |
Mike Cahill |
Tel : 248054, E : cahill(at)onwight.net |
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All other Mammals, Reptiles & Amphibians |
Richard Grogan |
Tel : 533180, E : richardg(at)hwt.org.uk |
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Butterflies |
Andy Butler |
Tel : 854925 |
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Moths |
Ian Fletcher |
E : ruamoth(at)googlemail.com |
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Dragonflies, Damselflies (Odonata) |
Elaine Rice |
Tel : 730187, E : erice73737(at)aol.com |
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Beetles (Coleoptera), Bees, Wasps and Ants (Hymenoptera), Flies (Diptera), Grasshoppers and Crickets (Orthoptera) |
Adam Wright |
Tel : 856319, E : aswrightento(at)yahoo.co.uk |
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Spiders & Harvestmen, (Araneae) |
Rod Allison |
Contact HQ (Thurs a.m.) Tel: 282596 E: iwnhas@btconnect.com |
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Bugs (Hemiptera/Homoptera), Gall-causing organisms, |
David Biggs |
Plum Tree Cottage, Albert Road,
Gurnard, Isle of Wight
PO31 8JU
Tel : 292595 |
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Fleas (Siphonaptera) |
Bob George |
Contact HQ (Thurs a.m.) Tel: 282596 E: iwnhas@btconnect.com |
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Marine invertebrates, Algae (esp. Seaweeds) |
Roger Herbert |
Tel : 521040, E : rjhh(at)islewight.freeserve.co.uk |
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Slugs & Snails, (Gastropoda) |
Adrian Norris |
Contact HQ (Thurs a.m.) Tel: 282596 E: iwnhas@btconnect.com |
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Mosses and Liverworts (Bryophytes) |
Lorna Snow |
Tel : 863704, E : lornasnow(at)madasafish.com |
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Fungi |
David Biggs & Colin Pope |
As above |
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General enquiries to |
Parks & Countryside Section |
Enterprise House, Monks Brook, Newport, Isle of Wight, PO30 5WB
Tel : 01983 823893, E : lrc(at)iow.gov.uk |
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Database, managed by the Society's Recording Committee |
Geoff Toone |
Tel: 01983 403508, E : Geoff(at)toone10.fsnet.co.uk |
The Society has a central database of all species records, held electronically using a specialist biological recording program. Emphasis has been on the collection and digitisation of up-to-date modern records but the library also contains many paper-based records, particularly historic records, and these are now being digitised so that they will be easily available in the future.
Information about the distribution of species and records of species can be accessed through the
NBN
search facility or by enquiry of the Local Records Centre. Specialist enquiries are probably best addressed to the Society itself when they cover more than just the last twenty years or rely upon cross-group analyses, complex data retrievals or historical information.
One of the many species of Dandelion, (Taraxacum pulchrifolium), in the field. © GT
An herbarium specimen (Taraxacum pulchrifolium, Markl. 1938). © GT