Recording finds suggestion

[jonbem]

Is there anywhere I can detail a find? eg type. colour, gills, pores, rings, location, surrounding flora/fauna etc etc. I know that the members on here are very knowledgable and point in the right direction but for the future benefit of others, where, apart from my own notes, do I record a find? Especially if I think I have come across something rare? How do I find my local group?
I am not saying I have anything now, but if I did? eg where do I find the "current" red list, and who do I tell if I find one?
I know a lot of the questions are in the "sticky" but does the result add to the records or just on this site?

[cybershot]

The ABFG (Association of British Fungus Groups) is an ideal starting point for answers to all the infomation you require including details about submitting your own records to CATE; the organisation's modern, sophisticated and easy to use national database.

Good luck.

David

[flaxton]

To be balanced we ought to mention the BFRDBI which is the BMS records database. This is usually updated through a recording group. Hopefully both of these schemes will at some point merge for the good of mycology. I would strongly recommend trying to find a local group. I feel you will learn much more and much more quickly when mixing with others. There are only so many facts in even the best book.
On the red list finds, even if you are sure yourself and you get confirmation from the experts on here I would recommend you sending the notes and the dried fruitbody to either Michael at the ABFG or Dr Brian Spooner at Kew for verification.

Mal

[Chris Yeates]

Originally Posted by jonbem

Is there anywhere I can detail a find? eg type. colour, gills, pores, rings, location, surrounding flora/fauna etc etc. I know that the members on here are very knowledgable and point in the right direction but for the future benefit of others, where, apart from my own notes, do I record a find? Especially if I think I have come across something rare? How do I find my local group?
I am not saying I have anything now, but if I did? eg where do I find the "current" red list, and who do I tell if I find one?
I know a lot of the questions are in the "sticky" but does the result add to the records or just on this site?

Where are you based?

Chris

[jonbem]

thanks for the replies, I'll investigat efurther the routes you suggest.
I'm based at the top end of North Yorkshire

[SheffieldLass]

Originally Posted by jonbem

thanks for the replies, I'll investigat efurther the routes you suggest.
I'm based at the top end of North Yorkshire

Good place to be! And Chris I'm sure will be very willing to take your records as he is one of the Yorkshire recorders. He'll also know the groups that are up your way.

I use the BMS recording software MycoRec (but have modified it to take extra info for my own purposes, but can extract all the stuff that is needed to hand onto Chris). The version in Access 1997 can be downloaded free from here, so you can always give it a try. (You don't need Microsoft Access on your computer to use it, though you do if you want to modify the software.)
British Fungi - MycoRec

Or the more recent one for Access 2000 which also has the up-to-date Checklist using the near-current names (they are still changing them though so it is probably not bang up-to-date).
British Fungi - MycoRec2000

If you go for the 1997 one I can forward you the current checklist to insert.

Melanie

[jonbem]

Thanks Mel. That gives me something to play with on the dark winter nights. In the meantime the pleasant light evenings and nice weekends should find me hopefully out and about hunting for new specimens. I've had a brief search on the abfg and the fieldmycology and there seem to be only limited records for my area, whereas I have found a good variety of things not listed. I think my favourite so far is Calocera viscosa, very photogenic.
Thanks to all for the suggestions.