Wildlife surveys

[MarkE70]

Does anybody reccomend any wildlife surveys that I can get involved in, around the North-east area, other than the BTO bird atlas survey and the common plant survey? Any advice is much appreciated.
Cheers, Mark.

[Paul mabbott]

Originally Posted by MarkE70

Does anybody reccomend any wildlife surveys that I can get involved in, around the North-east area, other than the BTO bird atlas survey and the common plant survey? Any advice is much appreciated.
Cheers, Mark.

Depends where you are in the NE (of England?). There's a Natural History Society of Northumbria who ought to have knowledge of surveys - if you're further south then there's the Yorkshire Naturalist's Union.

There are a fair number of national surveys of which I recommend () the Ladybird Survey - UK Ladybird Survey - homepage but there are others - worth looking on the Buglife site for bumble bee survey &c .... The Garden Bird Survey of the BTO is very useful - but costs!
Good luck and have fun.

[derekmc]

Mark -

I don't know if you're interested in dragonflies, but there's also a survey being carried out on the Broad-Bodied Chaser (Libellula Depressa). You can find the details from the British Dragonfly Society website or via the following link.

http://www.brc.ac.uk/schemes/broad_bodied_chaser_survey/homepage.htm

I think the species is found in your part of the country, but it might be best to check as I don't have anything here with a distribution map.

Another thought might be to see if you have a local or county Moth Group - I'm sure someone there will be running moth traps to survey the local species/migrants during the summer months, and they'd welcome your help with capture and identification.

Good luck!
Derek