Have you seen wildlife at ?
Cambridge Colleges are being encouraged to participate in the by recording their wildlife.
Those spotting ’s foxes, voles, bird and insect life and more can now record their sightings with . All entries are reviewed by experts before becoming part of a large collection of records which are used to support research and decision-making. iRecord is operated by the as part of the work of the .
Quincentenary Librarian Rhona Watson, who has set up the Wildlife Recording group on iRecord said: “All wildlife records are useful and citizen science is being seen as increasingly important in recording biodiversity. Please consider submitting wildlife records – one warning, it can get addictive!”
How to record wildlife at :
- Download the iRecord App or
- Create an account
- Choose ‘Activities’ from the top panel – and select Cambridge Wildlife Recording
- Take a wildlife photograph and try to identify the species, and submit it to iRecord
- Your location should be ‘, Cambridge’ if you are on the main site, if not, then please choose a description like ‘Malcolm Street, Cambridge’ to describe where you saw the wildlife
A video guide to using the iRecord (by the Museum of Zoology Cambridge) is
