Submitting biological records and viewing species distribution maps.

If you have any biological records from the Highland Area could these be sent to Highland Biological Recording Group (HBRG) at the addresses below, or to The HBRG Website.

The HBRG and many other organisations upload the biological records that they hold onto the National Biodiversity Network website. All records are free to view at www.searchnbn.net.

Highland Biological Recording Group

The distribution of the solitary mining bee Colletes succinctus in Highland, based on records collected by HBRG.

Map © Murdo Macdonald, produced with DMAP .

The Highland Biological Recording Group was established in 1986 to:

• stimulate public interest and involvement in biological recording;

 

• collect data on Highland wildlife through surveys;

 

• publish the results in an annual newsletter and special publications;

 

• maintain a directory of local specialists and recorders;

 

• transfer data to and from National Recording Schemes.

About HBRG:

• Our geographical base is the Highland Council local authority area, which extends from the north coast of Scotland to Lochaber and the Cairngorms and includes Skye and the Small Isles.

 

• We have around 140 members, mostly from Highland.

 

• The membership has enormous expertise in most aspects of natural history.

 

• The annual subscription is currently £4.

 

• We are keen to engage both members and the public at large in our work.

 

• We meet twice a year and organise summer field visits.

 

• We publish a newsletter with results from the year's surveys every spring.

 

• In 1998 we published 'Highland Butterflies', and in 2006 published 'Highland Bumblebees'.

 

• We have close links with the Local Records Centre at Inverness Museum, and are working with the Highland LBAP to enhance its role. Currently we hold the Highland taxon dataset of over 83,500 records.

Subjects for current and recent projects are:

The ladybird Halyzia 16-guttata photographed at Lochcarron in Wester Ross. Ladybirds are the subject of one of HBRG's surveys.

Photo © Brian Neath.

Atlas of Oak Galls	House Spiders
Highland Mammal Atlas	Woodlice
Highland Ant Atlas	***
***	Horseflies
Stinkhorn fungi	Ladybirds
***	***
Winter tree galls	Butterflies
Pine galls	***
***	Smooth and Palmate Newts
Members have a wide range of other interests. See the The HBRG Website for details.

 

Mosses and liverworts are difficult to identify but are a very important component of Highland botany. If you are an expert, join us!

Photo © Saranne Bish.

The HBRG may be contacted c/o Inverness Museum and Art Gallery, Castle Wynd, Inverness IV2 3BJ, Scotland, UK, or by email to info@hbrg.org.uk.

Email the membership secretary at membership@hbrg.org.uk.

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