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Surrey Biodiversity Information Centre

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The Local Environmental Records Centre for Surrey. Collects, manages and disseminates site, species and habitat data to enable informed decision making and a better understanding of the landscape of Surrey.

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Carey Lodge @careylodge.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
A new species for me and our Send, Surrey garden today. Cordulegaster boltonii, the Golden-ringed Dragonfly. On iRecord. @surreybic.bsky.social
A black Dragonfly with gold markings on its thorax and abdomen. Green eyes.
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Carey Lodge @careylodge.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
A new Tachinid for the Send, Surrey garden and me yesterday, a female Phasia hemiptera. @surreybic.bsky.social
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Carey Lodge @careylodge.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
A daily garden sighting since August 21st has been Locust Blowfly, Stomorhina lunata. Today, two males on their lookout on the back of a metal chair and this one on a Hydrangea flowerhead. Females are here but not seen so often. @surreybic.bsky.social
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Rudy @rudywt.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Great views of Hobby at Thursley Common today. Also Curlew, Teal, Treecreeper. eBird checklist: ebird.org/checklist/S2... @surreybic.bsky.social #thursleycommom #birdwatching
HobbyCurlewTealTreecreeper
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Rudy @rudywt.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Finally got around to twitch this stunning Wood Warbler, a much awaited lifer. #woodwarbler #birdwatching @surreybic.bsky.social
Wood Warbler
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Rudy @rudywt.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Was a treat to watch this nightjar churring in the blue hour yesterday late evening at Chobham Common. eBird checklist: ebird.org/checklist/S2... @surreybic.bsky.social #nightjar #birdwatching #birding
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eBird Checklist - 11 Jun 2025 - Chobham Common NNR--South - 4 species
Submitted by Rudraksha Chodankar.
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Royal Entomological Society @royentsoc.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
🪰 Are you having trouble identifying an insect? Stop the guesswork & get the answers you need with a free expert consult. Fill out our form & our knowledgeable team will help you out 🔽 buff.ly/8XIysJt #AskAnEntomologist #Entomology #Insects #AskAnExpert #InsectIdentification
Advert for the RES Free Insect Identification Service featuring a close up of damselfly eyes in Genemuiden, Netherlands - image (c) Marc Brouwer 2014
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Surrey Biodiversity Information Centre @surreybic.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
It’s the third Saturday in February so it must be time for the annual Surrey Recorders’ Meeting… everything is set and ready to go, all we need now are some recorders and speakers 😊
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Brigit Strawbridge @brigitstrawbridge.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Have you come across @biologicalrecording.co.uk's excellent webinars... many free to attend? If not, do have a look. Brilliant speakers, diverse, & hugely informative. #Bees #dragonflies #earthworms #watervoles #hedgehogs #wildlifegardening More here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/cc/entolive-...
Underground tunnels of earthwormsPhotograph of a hedgehogA glowworm
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Carey Lodge @careylodge.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
Moth trap out this evening with mild, dry weather. Tathorhynchus exsiccata, a first for me and our Send, Surrey garden. @migrantmothuk.bsky.social @surreybic.bsky.social
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NFBR @nfbr.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
A fun quiz on winter tree ID from the Species Recovery Trust... www.buzzfeed.com/speciesrecov...
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British Native Winter Trees Quiz
Most of us know our oak from our ash. But what about your Guelder-rose from your Wayfaring Tree? And what about if they don't have any leaves on???! This quiz aims to sort out the twigmasters from tho...
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Reuben O'Connell-Booth @rocb-ento.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Interested in #moth trapping? Ever wondered why different bulbs collect different species? Or why some species are particularly threatened by light pollution? Using 100,000+ samples from the GMS (@gardenmothscheme.bsky.social), our new pre-print addresses these questions and more (thread)
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Surrey Biodiversity Information Centre @surreybic.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Congratulations to all of this year’s NBN Wildlife Recording Award winners, in particular Roger Morris and Stuart Ball for their Lifetime Achievement awards! #NationalBiodiversityNetwork #Hoverflies #HoverflyRecordingScheme nbn.org.uk/news-events-...
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NBN Award recipients 2024 - National Biodiversity Network
The winners and highly commended recipients of these NBN Awards were announced at the Merseyside Maritime Museum, in Liverpool, on Thursday 21 November.
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Surrey Biodiversity Information Centre @surreybic.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
🎶 “Sun is shinin’ in the sky” 🎶 Hello Bluesky! We are the Surrey Biodiversity Information. Centre (aka SBIC), the Local Environmental Records Centre for Surrey. Posts (and reposts) about all aspects of biological recording and the biodiversity found in our beautiful and varied County! A
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Biological Recording Company @biologicalrecording.co.uk · 14/11/2024
Recording species observations generates invaluable #biodiversity data. This short video explores what components are needed to create a biological record. 🧪 #naturalhistory #wildlife #nature #species #science #biology youtu.be/DgUwJu9Iptk
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What is a Biological Record?
YouTube video by Eco Sapien
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Martin Harvey @kitenet.bsky.social · 19/09/2024
New atlas published 🎉 Many congratulations to Howard Mendel, author of the new atlas of click-beetles, the latest in the series of recording scheme atlases supported by the @ukceh.bsky.social Biological Records Centre. Early-bird discount available at www.field-studies-council.org/shop/publica...
Cover and two inset page layouts for the new click-beetle atlas, with message "Available from FSC Publications - EARLY BIRD OFFER: save 20% on orders placed by 31 OCTOBER 2024"
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