WCRS Wildlife Recording Form
Thank you for choosing to record your wildlife sighting from Whitelee. The
information you provide can be invaluable in helping us locate and monitor species of
interest as well as identifying new plants and animals to the site.
Please use this starter record sheet to record your sighting. Don’t worry if you can’t
fill it all in – just provide as much information as you can and if possible, take a
photo and send this with your completed form.
If you are an experienced recorder or prefer a simpler sheet, please try our more
advanced recording form.
RECORD DATE & LOCATION INFORMATION
Date
Location name (if known)
¹Grid reference
Location description
WILDLIFE RECORD
Species name (if known?)
Comments (Sign,
Abundance, Sex,
Activity, Stage, Habitat etc)
PLANTS (FLORA)
If you do not know the plant please fill in the following sections as fully as you can to aid us
in identifying it
Plant description (including a
sketch if this is easier)
Where was it seen? (e.g.
woodland, pond edge, on
tree trunk etc)
Rough estimate of number
of plants or size of area the
plant occupied
No. of plants
Area estimate
(in
centimetres /
meters
square)
Any other information
WILDLIFE (FAUNA)
If you do not know the animal please fill in the following sections as fully as you can to aid us
in identifying it.
Description (including a
sketch if this is easier)
Where was it seen? (e.g.
woodland, pond edge,
flying, on a plant leaf etc)
What was it doing? (e.g.
flying, eating a plant leaf,
²calling/singing etc)
If the animal was eating a
plant or other wildlife, do
you know what it was?
Rough estimate of the
number seen?
Any other information
ABOUT YOU
You are under no obligation to fill in this section but please provide a contact phone number
or email address if you wish to know what you sighting was. (Due to postage costs we are
unable to respond by mail.)
Your name
Age
Contact phone number
Contact email address
Would you like to be
contacted regarding your
wildlife sighting?
Yes
No thanks
Please let us know if you would like to be put on the Whitelee email list so that we
can keep you up to date of interesting wildlife at the windfarm, event news, access
news etc:
Yes, put me on the
Whitelee mailing list
I do not wish to be
on the mailing list
¹ If you don’t have access to an OS map, try ‘Get-A-Map’, Odanance Survey’s free online OS map tool:
http://getamap.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/getamap/frames.htm
² If the animal you recorded was calling or singing, can you describe how it
sounded? With birds this information can help greatly. If trying to describe the call or
song of a bird – try writing it phonetically.