Use the links below to find out the potential users and uses of NESBReC and this website as well as other useful resources for biological recording

Potential users and uses of NESBReC
Resources for biological recording
Start collecting and sending us your records

Local Authorities

• Ensuring sustainable development
• Information planning decisions
• Identify mitigation opportunities
• Biodiversity action planning
• Identifying Local Nature Reserves and safeguarding important sites
• Ranger Services

Education

• Planning projects and research
• Contact with expert naturalists
• Training people
• Wildlife interpretation
• Recording wildlife

Conservation Agencies

• Identifying and safeguarding protected sites and species
• Licensing potentially damaging operations on SSSIs and waterways
• Biodiversity action planning
• Review planning applications

Naturalists and Recorders

• Identifying recording opportunities
• Collating species information
• Publishing distribution atlases
• Safe storage of data

Conservation Charities

• Biodiversity action planning
• Safeguarding important sites for wildlife
• Managing nature reserves
• Advising others

Developers

• Identifying sensitive sites or sites suitable for development
• Preparing landscape plans for newly developed sites using locally characteristic species

Land Managers

• Preparing management plans
• Species monitoring
• Controlling invasive plants and animals
• Reviewing management regimes

The Public

• Identifying local wildlife sites
• Information on nearby nature reserves
• Getting involved in conservation projects
• Contacting local experts
• Involvement in Local Agenda 21 projects

Police

• Preventing and detecting illegal activities against protected species

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Resources for biological recording

The Biological Records Centre website has lots of resources on it including:

• Recording Schemes
• Atlases
• Data Holdings
• Record Cards

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Start collecting and sending us your records

We want to gather information on all wildlife all over our region. Please send us records of all plants and animals that you see and can confidently identify.

We require four basic pieces of information for each record: What/Where/When/Who.

What
The name of the plant or animal. Common names or preferably the scientific name e.g. Primula vulgaris (Primrose), so as to avoid confusion.

Where
Gives a close indication of the location of the sighting. A 6-figure grid reference is preferable and also a name of the nearest location which is shown on an OS map.

When
Date of the record, preferably the day you recorded it but could be month, year or a range of dates.

Who
Name of the recorder. If someone else helped you with identification or confirmed your record please send us their name too.

Any more information that you collect will add to the value of your record e.g., habitat where you found it, numbers or abundance, male or female, stage of life cycle, its behaviour, or other plants it was growing with.

If you are interested in collecting biological records that can be used in the NESBReC database you can download a recorder form below:

The form is available as a web page document (16KB) which you should print out in landscape orientation.

Download Recorder form as Word Document

Alternatively you can download a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet to make recordings. Once you have completed your records, please email the spreadsheet back to us at: nesbrec@aberdeenshire.gov.uk

The Excel file is 17KB in size. To download the file, click on the following link with your right mouse button. In Internet Explorer choose 'Save Target As..'. This information may be stored on a database and used by NESBReC for wildlife conservation and management

Download recorder form as Microsoft Excel File

You can also submit your records to us electronically via a form. The link is shown below.

Submit your records to us online using a form

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