Hampshire Biodiversity Information Centre
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The Local Environmental Records Centre for Hampshire. tinyurl.com/hantsbic
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Hello Bluesky - The 'Supporting Local Recording Fund' for Hampshire is OPEN. Get up to Β£350 to train, run wildlife recording activities or even buy equipment! Deadline, 31st January 2026. More information here:
www.hants.gov.uk/landplanning...
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BTO | British Trust for Ornithology
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β οΈ Please report sightings of dead birds for possible testing for bird flu via the forms below β¬οΈ π In England, Wales & Scotland:
www.gov.uk/guidance/rep...
π In Northern Ireland:
www.daera-ni.gov.uk/.../daera-de...
. π In Republic of Ireland:
aviancheck.apps.services.agriculture.gov.ie/report
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Report dead wild birds
How to report dead wild birds.
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/report-dead-wild-birds
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BTO | British Trust for Ornithology
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Please also report dead or sick birds to BirdTrack via
www.birdtrack.net
for monitoring purposes. Please share this message far and wide with friends and birding communities. Thank you.
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BirdTrack | BTO
About BirdTrackBirdTrack allows volunteers to store and manage their own personal bird records, and uses these to support species conservation at local, regional, national and international scales.
https://www.birdtrack.net
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Tristan Norton
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This year, it's taken me until late October to see Coral-necklace Illecebrum verticillatum. Here it is on Canada Common, New Forest. It's seemingly a new spot for it.
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Tristan Norton
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Nail Fungus Poronia punctata on Canada Common, New Forest today. Also a decent spread of Psilocybe semilanceata.
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Tristan Norton
12 days ago
Lots more Coral-necklace Illecebrum verticillatum today at Canada Common, New Forest. Growing in damp hollows. The seed, which is abundant, must get blown or washed across the grassland and settle in these irregular features.
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Tristan Norton
12 days ago
Small Fleabane Pulicaria vulgaris still looking good in the northern New Forest today.
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Tristan Norton
12 days ago
Heath Milkwort Polygala serpyllifolia and Dwarf Gorse Ulex minor. Canada Common, New Forest.
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Tristan Norton
4 days ago
As I had a day off today, I went to see this mad, perky little bird, a Boat-tailed Grackle Quiscalus major that's turned up at Calshot, Hampshire. Very amusing, tootling around cars, boats, and verges and basically ignoring people. A real character.
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Tristan Norton
9 days ago
What looks like Rough Bristle-grass Setaria verticillata from a turnip field just near home this afternoon. Central Hampshire.
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Tristan Norton
7 days ago
Odds and sods. A ditch full of Shaggy Soldier Galinsoga quadriradiata, Common Fumitory Fumaria officinalis and Dwarf Spurge Euphorbia exigua near home, escapee Snapdragon Antirrhinum majus in the ditch. Hampshire today and yesterday.
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Dan Houghton
5 days ago
Some 'green islands' in Botley Wood, Hants this afternoon - Ectoedemia quinquella and Stigmella atricapitella on Oak and Ectoedemia argyropeza on Aspen.
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Daniel Brown
5 days ago
#TheWinter10
from Hampshire this week; yarrow, meadow crane's-bill, sweet violet, common mallow, daisy, viper's-bugloss, annual mercury, periwinkle, bell heather and shepherd's purse.
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Dave Wheatley
2 days ago
Having poked every shrub and plant in the garden 67/27 was the trap total in SE Hants. Migrants; 1 of White point, RDP and a stunning Blairβs Mocha. Large Wainscot was a hoped for NFG. A possible NFG A. notana needs πͺ. A. hastiana and a Flying V Nov moth agg best of the rest
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Michael Caponi
4 days ago
A trip to Lymington on the bus and train to see the male Long-tailed Duck who has been staying on Normandy Lagoon 30.10.25
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#HantsBirding
#LowCarbonBirding
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BTO | British Trust for Ornithology
2 days ago
If you live in Hampshire & the Isle of Wight and would like to find out more about how you can get involved in the BTOβs work, join us for a FREE Zoom session on Wednesday 19 November.
www.bto.org/our-work/eve...
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#UKbirding
π· Flock of Wigeon, by Tom Cadwallendar / BTO
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Daniel Brown
1 day ago
Views and water forget-me-not at River Park Recreation Ground and Winnall Moors yesterday. Nice to hear Cetti's Warbler and see Moorhen.
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Tristan Norton
1 day ago
A zesty sprig of pure summer sunshine today. Wild Parsnip Pastinaca sativa on the local downs near Sparsholt, Hampshire.
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Migrant Lepidoptera (GB & Ireland)
3 days ago
Antigastra catalaunalis (Toadflax Pearl), to light in North Hants (VC12) on 4/11. B. Dale
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Our Billy is exploring Winchester and found these 3 bryophytes growing on a ginkgo tree near Winchester Cathedral with another 11 species also on the trunk!
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Photos: Microcoleopsis minutissima, Syntrichia papillosa and Syntrichia laevipila
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BSBI Botany
3 days ago
New
#GBRedList
for vascular plants is published today by a team led by
@bsbibotany.bsky.social
with partners
@naturalengland.bsky.social
@ukceh.bsky.social
@naturescot.bsky.social
@natreswales.bsky.social
@nhm-london.bsky.social
@plantlifeintl.bsky.social
@rbgkew.bsky.social
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Biological Recording Company
15 days ago
Think itβs a spider? Think again! π·οΈ Opilio canestrini is a harvestmanβone of the UKβs most visible urban arachnids. Join
@megabunus.bsky.social
on 30 Dec 2025 (18:30β20:00) for a deep dive into arboreal harvestmen ecology. ποΈ
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1502201859...
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Biological Recording Company
15 days ago
π·οΈ Meet the fork-palped harvestmen! πΈοΈ Dicranopalpus ramosus & D. caudatus: UK newcomers with eerie tuning forkβshaped palps. Learn all about them in our next UK Harvestmen webinar with
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on 30th December. π
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1502201859...
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Bat Conservation Trust
15 days ago
π¦ Today is the start of
#BatWeek
, an international celebration of bats and why they matter! Find out more about bats here:
www.bats.org.uk/about-bats
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About Bats - Bat Conservation Trust
Bats are fascinating animals β the only true flying mammal. There are 1,500 species of bats in the world (as of September 2025), and more are still bein...
https://www.bats.org.uk/about-bats
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Bat Conservation Trust
18 days ago
π¦ Applications for the next round of the Living Alongside Bats in Churches Grant are still open. Deadline: 9am, 27 October. We encourage any place of worship in England who needs assistance with their bat roost, such as managing a cleaning issue, to apply:
www.bats.org.uk/our-work/bui...
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Living Alongside Bats in Churches Grant - Bats and Churches - Bat Conservation Trust
Bats have always been in churches and places of worship β there are records of this dating back many hundreds of years. Even churches built in a non-tra...
https://www.bats.org.uk/our-work/buildings-planning-and-development/bats-and-churches/living-alongside-bats-in-churches-grant
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British Mycological Society
22 days ago
Find a fungus group near you! π A new map showing BMS-affiliated fungus groups has been added to the BMS website, making it easier to find local groups around the UK. With links to group websites and further info.β‘οΈ Recording Network map:
www.britmycolsoc.org.uk/recording-ne...
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Hampshire Ornithological Society
21 days ago
HOS team members have been in London this week to receive a national award recognising excellence in local ornithology. Every year the Marsh Charitable Trust and the British Trust for Ornithology select a local organisation to receive the distinction based on their achievements.
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Daniel Brown
20 days ago
Grey coral fungi and puffballs at Blashford Lakes today
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Our Billy found Bartramia pomiformis - a rare and declining bryophyte in Hampshire while surveying a sunken lane in the South Downs near Liss!
#HantsPlants
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Congratulations
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22 days ago
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BTO | British Trust for Ornithology
22 days ago
Congratulations to β¬Hampshire Ornithological Society, winner of the
@marshawards.bsky.social
for Local Ornithology!
@hosbirding.bsky.social
provides a range of engagement activities such as outings, ringing demonstrations, events, workshops and online sessions for participants of all ages.
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Amy
22 days ago
Details for obtaining a copy here, as well as links to older bird reports that have been digitised. The HOS library is at Hartley Library, University of Southampton:
www.hos.org.uk/welcome-to-t...
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Hampshire Bird Report - Hampshire Ornithological Society
The Hampshire Bird Report for 2024 has been published The book is 256 pages long, a major part of which is taken up with the Systematic List covering the 257 species recorded in the county during the ...
https://www.hos.org.uk/welcome-to-the-hos-website/join-us/hampshire-bird-report/
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Amy
22 days ago
Another excellent Hampshire Bird Report by
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, and this year it is available digitally as well as in print!
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Amphibian and Reptile Conservation
25 days ago
π’ REGISTRATION OPEN FOR #HerpJSM2025 Join Amphibian and Reptile Conservation & British Herpetological Society on Saturday 29th November at the Bournemouth Natural Science Society Museum. Find out more and book π
https://www.arc-trust.org/Event/arc-bhs-joint-scientific-meeting-2025
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ARC-BHS Joint Scientific Meeting 2025 - 29/11/2025 10:00:00
The ARC-BHS Joint Scientific Meeting is back for 2025 on Saturday 29th November, with a range of fascinating talks about amphibian and reptile biology and conservation.
https://www.arc-trust.org/Event/arc-bhs-joint-scientific-meeting-2025
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BSBI Botany
24 days ago
Huge thanks to
@daera-ni.gov.uk
for funding our winter programme of Botanical Skills webinars! They are all free so please use the links below to book your spaces!
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South East Wales Biodiversity Records Centre
26 days ago
The British Mycological Society are surveying all fungi recorders as part of a review on how they share their data. It would be great if anyone who records fungi could complete it (you don't have to be a prolific fungi recorder or BMS member to take part).
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Fungus Recorder Online Survey
This survey is being conducted by the Biological Recording Company on behalf of the British Mycological Society. The survey does not collect any personal or identifying information, ensuring that al...
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdjwuQT8Hm7thVuo-oVHeqma5RO2yFVEoNU5d0t0end_qW3Jg/viewform
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Bob Chapman
about 2 months ago
I came across what seems to be Leopoldius calceatus on a low Ivy hedge on the Hants coast today not sure if this is a new county record but certainly a first for me.
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BSBI Botany
29 days ago
Well spotted, Billy & Joel
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! Water Bent is one of our most rapidly increasing alien grasses, esp. in cities, according to its
#PlantAtlas2020
page:
plantatlas2020.org/atlas/2cd4p9...
Whereas Fern-grass's distribution hasn't changed so much:
plantatlas2020.org/atlas/2cd4p9...
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Marsh Mallow near Fawley and Long-stalked Crane's-bill on chalk grassland near Andover over the summer
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Tristan Norton
28 days ago
Peak Field Woundwort Stachys arvensis time in my best local spot in Hampshire's Test Valley.
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Our Billy found Bartramia pomiformis - a rare and declining bryophyte in Hampshire while surveying a sunken lane in the South Downs near Liss!
#HantsPlants
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Tristan Norton
about 1 month ago
The latest edition of Flora News, the newsletter of the Hampshire Flora Group, is now available for FREE. As packed with botanical interest as Hampshire is packed with amazing plants!
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hantsplants.uk/floranews.php
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Hants Plants: a site for botanists in Hampshire (test)
https://hantsplants.uk/floranews.php
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Michael Caponi
about 1 month ago
Curlew enjoy a bathe followed by breakfast. Woolston Sewage Works 27.09.25
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Steve Keen
about 1 month ago
Being much pickier re trapping nights atm, last night scoring 58 of 22 in SW Hants. Two NFY, Black Rustic & Red-line Quaker, with an excellent 8 of the former (2 was my max last year!). Small Mottled Willow, White-point, Four-sp Footman & 3 L-album the
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Dave Wheatley
about 1 month ago
Moth stats Aug 2025 SE Hants, completed whilst baking the Christmas cake. 9 traps 1436 moths 10 NFG. Running year totals 11019 moths, 558 sp, 88 NFG. Beet Moth, Mompha propinquella, Gynnidmorpha vectisana all NFG and the cake
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Tristan Norton
about 1 month ago
Dense-flowered Fumitory Fumaria densiflora and Common Fumitory Fumaria officinalis in full flow in a delightfully weedy bed at a Winchester allotment site today.
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Tristan Norton
about 1 month ago
Field Penny-cress Thlapsi arvense at Highcliffe community allotments in Winchester, Hampshire today.
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Daniel Brown
about 1 month ago
Fly agaric at Millyford Bridge in the New Forest today.
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Tristan Norton
about 1 month ago
What looks like Maple-leaved Goosefoot Chenopodiastrum hybridum, growing in a Winchester allotment today. I've only seen it once before, but this looked unusual.
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Dan Houghton
about 1 month ago
Some larval stuff from Gosport, Hants this afternoon- a Phyllocnistis midrib mine on Willow, mines of Phyllonorycter schreberella and tristrigella and a Grey Dagger larva on Elm.
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Ian Exton
about 1 month ago
Our first
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Winter Bird Survey at Ludshott Common, Hampshire, today. Don't know if you can hear but there's a Woodlark singing his head off like it's the first day of Spring. Also Siskin, Redpoll, Crossbill, Dartford, Linnet and Stonechat in this one spot.
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