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Wider Countryside Butterfly Survey (WBCS) 2011

Butterfly Conservation are delighted to inform you that we have decided to continue the Wider Countryside Butterfly Survey (WCBS) again in 2011. Once again this will be a collaborative project with BTO and CEH. We would like to thank everyone who took part last year and especially the WCBS Champions who helped promote the survey within the Branches. The survey had another successful year with nearly 700 squares sampled. We hope you will continue to survey the same squares in the same way as last year. Our priority is to re-survey these squares for at least the next 2 years so that we can determine trends in the wider countryside and see whether they differ from transect trends. We also welcome new participants either to help re-survey old squares, or to survey new ones for the first time. New surveyors will be allocated randomly selected 1-km squares in their Branch area. The squares need to be surveyed in July and August by two visits at least ten days apart. Anyone interested in taking part in the WCBS in the East Midlands in the coming season should contact Bill Bacon (the Branch Champion) for further information..

East Midlands Region Distribution Maps.

Distribution maps are now available as pdf files for some butterflies on the species pages. These are based on five years data submitted to local recorders, using recording forms distributed in the EMBC Spring newsletters. A copy of the form can also be downloaded here, please note the change of address for the Nottinghamshire recorder.

Casual Recording Form

Site Recording form