Submitting records

The Cambridgeshire Bird Club is responsible for gathering bird records for Cambridgeshire. These are used to produce the species reports in the Club's bi-monthly Bulletin, and are also the main source of data for the Annual Cambridgeshire Bird Report.

Submitting Records:

Read the Guidelines on what records we need, this includes commoner birds, breeding records, rarer birds requiring a description, exotics and hybrids.
We prefer to receive records by email to the County Recorder, Mike Foley, on the Records Spread-sheet (Download) provided. We have written some Spreadsheet Guidelines with examples.

What we do with the records

All records are added to a master spreadsheet, which is used to produce the Bulletin and Annual Report.
The data is available from CPBRC for other purposes; e.g. scientific use, site information and planning applications.

Submitting Records of Rarities:

All BBRC species, potential county firsts (full species and races) and species that are rare in the County require a full description. Records of rare and scarce species should be submitted, with an accompanying description, preferably via email, for vetting by the Rarities Committee, to the County Recorder Mike Foley,.

RECORDS OF NATIONAL RARITIES
Records currently assessed by the British Birds Rarities Committee (BBRC) require a full description. Description forms are available from the BBRC website or from the relevant County Recorder, who will forward the completed forms to the BBRC. It would be most helpful if observers intending to send their forms directly to the BBRC could provide a copy/notes for the relevant Recorder.

You can download a CBC Rarities Form.

Records Committee:

The records committee operates according to the CBCRC Guidelines. The Committee members are : Robin Cox (non-voting Committee Chairman), Bruce Martin (non-voting Committee Secretary), Steve Cooper, Mark Hawkes, Richard Patient, Jonathan Taylor and Richard Thomas.

Several species found in 2011 still require a description to be submitted to the County Recorder. An Excel spreadsheet of these will be available here very shortly.

Recording Area:

The Cambridgeshire Bird Report covers the new county of Cambridgeshire, which includes the old county of Huntingdonshire. To view a map of the recording area click here.

List of County sites:

John Clark has compiled a comprehensive List of birding sites in Cambridgeshire.
A grid reference is available for each site.

Also see the Top Bird Sites page.

Summary of links and downloads:

Observer Guidelines, including species requiring a description (pdf)
Records Spreadsheet (xls)
Records Spreadsheet Guidelines (pdf)
CBC Rarities Form (rtf)
Records Committee Guidelines (html)