iRecord, iNaturalist and other apps
IMPORTANT!
If you submit records to iRecord, iNaturalist or any other app, or directly to your Local Records Centre or the NBN Gateway, they WILL NOT come automatically to the BLS for verification and WILL NOT be included in our database or distribution maps.
These apps are increasingly popular with amateur recorders, and in time we hope to be able to take records from them into our database, but at present we simply don't have the resources to do this. If anyone would like to volunteer to take on the verification and reformatting of these records we would love to hear from you!
We are keen to introduce online recording of lichens, in a way that can feed records directly into the BLS database, and are actively looking into the options for this, but in the meantime all lichen recorders should submit records to us directly, by email using the standard spreadsheet. This spreadsheet can handle the large volumes of records produced by professional and site surveyors, but it is also a quick and easy way to keep occasional and casual records and we would especially encourage people new to lichen recording to give it a try.
Individual records of interest can be submitted by email to records@britishlichensociety.org.uk without the spreadsheet, but please be sure to include as much information on the location, position and substrate as possible, if possible with a photo.