Recording and data

Citizen science recording projects

Individual schemes you send records to, by taxon and by country. Most want a photograph and five minutes.

• HerpMapper

  Herp occurrence reporting

• FrogID

  Australian frog call project

• JellyWatch

  Marine invertebrate sightings

• NANPA citizen science

  Photography-based citizen science

• Global Sawfish Encounters

  Sawfish sighting map

• Online Jaguar Observation Database

  Jaguar sightings

• Latest Sightings

  Safari sighting app

• Seabirds.net

  Seabird colony registry

• Bumble Bee Watch

  Photograph a bumblebee anywhere in the US or Canada and an expert verifies the species. Running at over 16,000 sightings a month

• European Butterfly Monitoring Scheme

  Pan-European butterfly and moth transect counts across 6,000+ transects, with a recording app in ten or more languages

• Tagfalter-Monitoring Deutschland

  Germany's weekly volunteer butterfly transect walks, running since 2005. In German

• Catalan Butterfly Monitoring Scheme

  Butterfly transects across Catalonia, the Balearics and Andorra since 1994. In Catalan

• Correo Real

  Mexico's monarch migration monitoring network, run by Profauna since 1992. Report by form, WhatsApp or email. In Spanish

• Butterflies of India

  Peer-reviewed national butterfly database for India, built largely from public photographs

• Mosquito Alert

  Photo-report invasive mosquitoes, bites and breeding sites. Spanish in origin, now international. Spanish, Catalan and English

• Mueckenatlas

  Germany asks you to post the actual mosquito in, for identification and mapping. Over 42,000 specimens sent in. In German

• Riverfly Monitoring Initiative

  UK anglers and volunteers kick-sample mayflies, stoneflies and caddisflies as an early warning on water quality

• British Dragonfly Society recording scheme

  National dragonfly and damselfly records through county recorders and iRecord, UK

• UK Glow Worm Survey

  Volunteer counts of glow-worms at known sites, feeding the Biological Records Centre

• FrogWatch USA

  Trained volunteers report frog and toad breeding calls from February to August across the US

• RAVON

  The Netherlands' volunteer recording networks for reptiles, amphibians and freshwater fish. In Dutch

• TurtleSAT

  Map Australian freshwater turtle sightings, nests and road deaths. Over 34,000 records and 2,000 nests protected

• Great Eggcase Hunt

  Report shark, skate and ray eggcases found on the beach. UK-led with a newer Australian arm

• Big Seaweed Search

  Timed seaweed surveys on UK shores, run by the Natural History Museum with the Marine Conservation Society

• National Plant Monitoring Scheme

  Survey indicator plants in a randomly allocated 1 km square, UK. Ten years of data as of 2025

• Nature's Calendar

  UK phenology records for plants, animals and fungi, continuing a series that starts in 1736

• SeasonWatch

  Track leaf flush, flowering and fruiting on 130+ common Indian tree species

• Fungimap

  Australia's national fungal recording scheme, with nearly 5,000 observers on its annual hunt

• Hedgehog Street

  Report UK hedgehog sightings and map the holes they move through between gardens

• Vigie-Chiro

  France's volunteer bat acoustic monitoring, by fixed point, car transect or roost count, with automated call identification. In French

• National Dormouse Monitoring Programme

  Volunteer nest-box monitoring for hazel dormouse across the UK

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