Wildlife Group
A group of interested locals sharing their wildlife encounters on a WhatsApp group and on this website, from Song Thrushes to Sea Eagles!
Old style.
You see an interesting plant but don’t have your camera with you. You try to remember what it looks like. When you get home, you dig out that Collins guide someone gave you for Christmas and flick through trying to spot what the plant was. But there are at least three it could be. You give up.
New style.
You see an interesting plant. You take a photo with the Seek app which suggests what it might be. Even better, you use the iNaturalist app. It too makes suggestions but also records exactly where you are, allows you to record any sound, and when you are home sends the record to your laptop. This allows you to add it to the map (as below) and you automatically receive confirmation of the identification from experts.
Here’s the link for the iNaturalist website: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/lbwildlife
Your observations will appear for all to see on the map on this page along with all the rest. If needed, the user name is lbwildlife and the password is oneplanet
You'll see more detail on a large screen.
It would be great if everyone in the parish with any interest in the natural world used these apps – especially children. The Seek app is very child-friendly with Challenges, Your Mission and Badges and levels from Cub level upwards.
Use this link to join the WhatsApp group, email photos here, or join the website forum here.
Most of all, get outside and explore!
The Langford Budville Wildlife Map
Click on the map to reveal our wealth of local living treasures
If you've ever come across an interesting plant or feature of nature and been seized by curiosity - you've come to the right spot! Welcome to the first of our 'Citizen Science' projects. We are trying to build a biodiversity map of the entire parish, recording all the wildlife that we can find, along with its seasonal variations. With just your smartphone and enthusiasm you can help!
Click on the map to reveal local observations.
Using the smartphone apps iNaturalist and Seek, anyone can contribute to our steadily growing biodiversity map of the area.
Take the best close up photo that you can of an interesting animal, plant or other wildlife, and use the Seek app to identify it. The iNaturalist app will send your record to the website, a global library of wildlife observations.
You can explore an interactive map of these observations either on your home computer or smart device, via the iNaturalist website and app.
We have plant and wildlife WhatsApp groups too - great for identifying mysteries like the local wild wallabies!
Ian Loudon
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