Useful Links for Wildlife Recording and Research
This page brings together wildlife recording resources and external links that support biological recording, biodiversity research and the use of wildlife data. The organisations and tools listed below provide access to national recording schemes, data portals and guidance relevant to wildlife recording.
Botanical
- British Bryological Society – Borders Bryophyte Group
- British Bryological Society – South West Scotland Recording Group
Invertebrates
- Butterfly Conservation – East Scotland Branch
- Butterfly Conservation – Glasgow & SW Scotland Branch
- Edinburgh Entomological Club
Vertebrates
- Lothian Bat Group
- Central Scotland Bat Group
- Lothian & Borders Badger Group
- Central Scotland Badger Group
- Red Squirrels in South Scotland
- Lothian and Borders Mammal Group (LaBMaG)
- Central Scotland Mammal Group. Contact: mammals.clacksandstirling@gmail.com
- Lothian Amphibian and Reptile Group (LARG)
- Central Scotland Amphibian and Reptile Group (CentARG)
- Scottish Ornithologists Club – Local branches
- Scottish Raptor Study Group – Regional branches
- Forth Seabird Group
A comprehensive list of national recording schemes can be found on the Biological Records Centre’s website.
Botanical
- Botanical Society of Scotland (BSS)
- Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland (BSBI)
- BSBI Scotland
- Plantlife- Scotland
- Wildflower Society
- British Pteridological Society
- British Bryological Society
- British Lichen Society
- British Phycological Society
- Scottish Fungi
Vertebrates
- Amphibian and Reptile Conservation
- Amphibian and Reptile Groups of the UK
- Froglife Scotland
- RSPB – Scotland
- Scottish Ornithologists Club
- Scottish Raptor Monitoring Scheme
Invertebrates
- Aquatic Coleoptera Conservation Trust
- Buglife – Scotland
- Butterfly Conservation – Scotland
- British Arachnological Society (BAS)
- British Dragonfly Society
- British Myriapod and Isopod Group
- Earthworm Society of Britain
- Ephemeroptera Recording Scheme
- UK Hoverflies public group (affiliated with Hoverfly Recording Scheme)
- Orthoptera Recording Scheme
- Borders Forest Trust
- TCV Scotland
- Esk Valley Trust
- Green Action Trust
- Marine Biological Association (MBA)
- The Marine Life Information Network (MarLIN)
- National Trust for Scotland
- Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh
- Scottish Wildlife Trust
- Southern Uplands Partnership
- Tweed Forum
- Water of Leith Conservation Trust
- Woodland Trust – Scotland
- Freshwater Habitats Trust
- Cumbria Biodiversity Data Centre
- Environmental Records Information Centre for the North East of England (ERIC)
- Fife Nature Records Centre
- Glasgow Museums Biological Records Centre. Contact: Biological.records@glasgowlife.org.uk
- “Lorn Natural History Group (LNHG)”
- Find a LERC Map
- i-spot
- Earthworms in Compost
- Froglife’s Dragon Finder project
- Seasearch
- Butterfly Conservation’s Big Butterfly Count
- RHS’ Cellar Slug Hunt
- BTO’s Garden BirdWatch
- TWIC Hedgehog survey
- TWIC Spots and Stripes Survey
- TWIC Record a Raptor Survey
- TWIC Scottish Spider Search Survey
- TWIC Record a Brown Hare Survey
- TWIC Falkirk Swift Survey
- iRecord (hosted by the Biological Records Centre)
TWIC Wildlife Recording
These external wildlife recording resources support biological recording, biodiversity research and the wider use of wildlife data, and they complement TWIC’s own surveys, excursions, and data services. You can find out more about TWIC’s own work through our wildlife surveys and excursions, keep up to date by subscribing to our newsletter, or consider becoming a TWIC member to support the Centre and its activities.