Spurred on by Martin Harvey's splendid illustration of the iRecord situation in VC22 Berkshire for 2021 (see here), I've produced similar maps for VC23 Oxfordshire and VC24 Buckinghamshire.
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| VC23 Oxfordshire |
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| VC24 Buckinghamshire |
The first thing that you'll notice is that the number of verified records is much lower in these two counties than Berkshire's magnificent total of 43,000+, but to be fair Martin has been encouraging his Berkshire recorders to use iRecord for a lot longer! Oxon and Bucks are more recent converts to the system and many of their more prolific recorders still use other means to send in data (as will some in Berks, so the totals here don't give any indication at all of the final counts for 2021 in each county). However, they do serve to show that iRecord is becoming well used right across our area and we would like to encourage more recorders to try it out, especially newcomers to the fascinating world of moths.
iRecord has many benefits over simply sending in a spreadsheet at the end of the season, not least of which are the ability to spread the load by entering records throughout the year and the fact that photographs can be added very easily. For the verifier, being able to check a potentially tricky record by looking at a picture of the moth in question, sometimes while the recorder still has it, makes life so much easier. For the recorder, the ability to enter a list of records for a given trapping session (www.irecord.org.uk > Record > Species group forms > Moths) makes input very simple indeed and ensures that all the relevant data is included. If you don't use iRecord already, why not give it a go in 2022?
Dave Wilton
I use irecord for odd records but I lose motivation if there is a lot of typing to do. If it were possible to upload like a .csv or something that could be really useful!
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