MANCHESTER BIRDING BIRD RECORDING

CONTACT DETAILS FOR ALL RECORDS AND QUERIES, OTHER THAN COUNTY RARITIES:

Mrs. A.J. Smith,
12 Edge Green Street,
Ashton-in-Makerfield
Wigan

Greater Manchester

WN4 8SL

Telephone: 01942 712615 or 07970 778024

Email: judith@gmbirds.freeserve.co.uk

TO SUBMIT YOUR ANNUAL COUNTY BIRD RECORDS

We are now asking birders with computer facilities to utilise the Excel spreadsheet available below to record their bird sightings as these can then be easily incorporated directly into the county database. The spreadsheet has a list of sites and observers attached to it and I would urge all those intending to use the spreadsheet to download the instruction booklet which you will find very useful.

If your computer does not have Excel but uses another spreadsheet then please contact the County Recorder for advise, as it will almost certainly be possible to accommodate it. For birders without computer facilities (who may be reading this at their local library, internet cafe or elsewhere) please send your records in by post, arranged by site if possible.

Please aim to send your records to the County Recorder as soon as possible after the year end and certainly before the end of March.

The new (December 2008) version of the recording form below, takes into account the updated county rarity list and includes a new page containing breeding codes for BTO and GM Atlases. Guidance notes for entering records can be found on the Recording Form page by hovering your cursor over each field (column) heading.

Please note that the BTO breeding codes in the status column on the above form are very important and wherever possible should be used not just with breeding records from the core period (April to July) but also with breeding evidence from earlier and later in the year. For Vice-counties on the form, we are aware that many sites in VC 57, 58 and 63 are shown incorrectly as VC 59. These errors will be corrected when time permits. Please do not amend the Vice-counties numbers as this will create additional work before the records can be imported into the database.

Click here for the Excel spreadsheet to record all your county bird sightings

Version updated 11.02.09

*IMPORTANT NOTE* On clicking to open this document a dialogue box will appear asking for a username and password. Do not enter anything, simply click the cross in the top right corner of the box to close it and the document will appear, which can then be saved to your own computer.

Click here for the instruction booklet for the above spreadsheet

*IMPORTANT NOTE* On clicking to open this document a dialogue box will appear asking for a username and password. Do not enter anything, simply click the cross in the top right corner of the box to close it and the document will appear, which can then be saved to your own computer.
 

THANK YOU FOR TAKING THE TIME AND TROUBLE TO SEND IN YOUR RECORDS

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