Useful Resources
Here's some of our favourite websites, apps and resources that we use around the site.
Recording Flora and Fauna
The central Wiltshire records website: Wiltshire & Swindon Biological Records Centre
Main UK species recording app: iRecord App
Alternative UK mammal recording app: Mammal Society Mammal Mapper
Recording butterflies app: Butterfly Conservation Big Butterfly Count
Hedgehog recording app: PTES Hedgehog Street
Apps for ID
Comprehensive ID app: iNaturalist
Bird song identification: Merlin Bird ID and BirdNetSond ID
Documents and Books
The Tree Growers Guide download PDF
There's additional documents here and useful videos too including The Young Tree Growers Guide.
State of Nature: annual report on the UK's wildlife.
Other Things
Become a Tree Warden! The tree Council
If you are in Wiltshire and are interested in ponds on your land then here's the scheme we used to fund them: Wiltshire Wildlife GCN DLL Ponds.
Bat Box Instructions
Here are PDF Instructions for two styles of bat boxes that we've built. They are simple to make and the dimensions are very flexible - just make sure the crevices are the right depth otherwise the bats wont use them!
PDF download: CJM Morris Slot Bat Box (from Vincent Wildlife)
PDF download: Kent Bat Box (from Kent Bat Group)
Theres lots more information on the following websites...
Wildlife Watch: Actions
PTES: how to build a bat box
Useful Organisations (Wiltshire Centric)
The Species Recovery Trust (Salisbury)
Training course, useful publications and free resources eg Tansy Beetle surveying.
Peoples Trust for Endangered Species
Wiltshire Mammal (and bat!) Group
Also see who we follow on Instagram for some ideas of useful individuals and organisations.
