iRecord, You Record

iRecord, You Record

Claire Stewart, GiGL Community Officer Recording wildlife has never been so popular. With the advent of smartphones, wildlife recording apps, simple online ID guides, and even bird song ID apps, everyone from seasoned bird watchers to first-time kingfisher-spotters...
Show & Tell: Stag Beetle Forms

Show & Tell: Stag Beetle Forms

Maria Longley, GiGL Community Manager For several years now, one of our most reliable signs of spring at GiGL has been the trickle of stag beetle records sent via our website. The first records in March and April herald the upcoming busy season of stag beetle spotting...
Borough’s Corner

Borough’s Corner

Hackney Kate Mitchell, Hackney Biodiversity Officer Hackney’s first biodiversity action plan went to public consultation in 2011 and is due to be formally adopted by the borough early this year. The delay in the BAP’s adoption hasn’t prevented the borough starting its...

In the beginning …

Lyndsey Cox, GiGL’s Data Entry Officer, on data entry – the building blocks of the data management From handwritten notes on scraps of torn paper to complex personalised databases, records come into GiGL in all sorts of different formats. Most commonly, data are...