Darren Archer

2/ You are able to enter records for a number of other taxa in BirdTrack that you might encounter while out birding. As well as butterflies, this includes mammals, dragonflies, amphibians, reptiles and orchids.

@BirdTrack Lovely thanks I’ll let him know Much appreciated

@dunnock67 Hi Darren, all other taxa recorded in BirdTrack flow through to iRecord daily and are then made available to relevant recorders from there

@BirdTrack I know my butterfly records through bird track reach my county recorder But do you know where my mammal records go My county bat recorder doesn’t think he gets them? Thks

@pratorum2112 @Stewchat 👏👏

Here’s one for birders Noctules are the big bats -size of starling that you will have seen at Dawn and dusk

Stupid o’clock train to London after the match rewarded by a singing B Redstart in Holburn 😎

@BqEditor @pelagicpublish Yes but the kind you want to pick up and dig into 🥳

@dunnock67 @pelagicpublish Sh*t from cover to cover 😂

Wonderful publication from @pelagicpublish

@_BCT_ This thread is worth a read as the issue is the same Lack of insects What impact is it having on this years productivity of maternity colonies? @Buzz_dont_tweet

Why do bats matter and why protect them? are question we often get asked. Apart from the joy of watching bats, they also play a hugely important role in ecosystems. They reproduce very slowly and are highly sensitive to changes in the environment buff.ly/45XgLlZ

Great thread 👇👏

'Like a circle in a spiral Like a wheel within a wheel Never ending or beginning On an ever-spinning reel As the images unwind Like the circles that you find In the windmills of your mind.' #moorlandbirds #birds #art #nature

Good morning happy 4th July! Please vote today, let’s make it a huge turn out so the country genuinely decides. Let politicians know that the people decide not them. Thank you.#Elections2024 #vote #generalection2024

Extinct. No more. That’s it gone.

Its vital that we protect the Green Belt on the edge of Sunderland & this is a great collection of fields & hedges which hold LEOwl Redshank Partridge Willow Tit Kestrel, Barn Owl n Winter this is an important feeding area for Curlew, Woodcock & Jack Snipe durhamwt.com/rainton-meadow…

@Buzz_dont_tweet Yep last year the buzz of bumbles on this R.moyesii could be heard indoors 12m away This year 3-4 bees can’t sing that tune

Have you noticed a lack of buzzing & flitting? 🌼Flowers lacking the visitors you'd usually expect to see? #InsectDecline is a real issue & concern; let's find out what's going on & keep bugs on the agenda 🐝 #CitizenScientists needed for #BugsMatter 👇 buglife.org.uk/get-involved/s…

He was immortalised in the great Dutch book 'Sinagote' but is this the end of his journey ? Yesterday he looked like he had been in the wars - a gashed flank and a hanging leg. Could any Norfolk birders let me know if they see him @GlobalFlyway @WGLepelaar

A lot of wildlife relies on insects as their main (or only) food source. All UK bat species eat insects only (some do eat spiders too) so without insects we wouldn't have any bats! bats.org.uk/about-bats/wha… #InsectWeek

Not your average #Barbastelle habitat in the UK but the only species found in our hotel garden in #Ligure #bats @_BCT_

For Small Skipper (T sylvestris) and Essex Sk (T lineola) many try to use the underside of the antennae. However for males the difference in androconidial patch on the forewing is much easier to see: short and parallel to the veins in T lineola, long and not parallel sylvestris.