Recorders' Conference: 29 February 2020

The conference has been moved from the Autumn 2019 to the Spring 2020 to allow recorders and CBDC more time to gather and process 2019 records.  This later date will help the conference to share "hot off the press" reports about Biodiversity in Cumbria.

Book the date in your diary and watch for further details on our website and Facebook page.

Recorders' Conference 2018

This year recorders watched the first camera footage of a Pine Marten in Cumbria and learned more about their hitch hiking behavior from Kevin O'Hara Project Officer Vincent Wildlife Trust.  Delegates also heard about:

• Rural and wildlife crime
• Moth recording without a trap
• Slow-worm Project Update
• Recording Geological Sites
• LOST - Looking out for Small Things

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Recorders' Conference 2017

Recorders joined our Annual Conference to hear talks that included:

• National Biodiversity Network Changes and the impact on the future of CBDC
• Earthworms
• Slow worms
• House mouse project
• Stories from the Wildlife Register CBDC Recording Day highlights

Recorders' Conference 2016

89 recorders joined our Annual conference to hear about:

• Hydroscape - a study of British Freshwaters – Dr Alan Law
• UK Dung Beetle Mapping Project – Ceri Watkins

Local recording updates included:

• Cumbria Fungi Group – Paul Nichol
• House mouse project
• Swifts in the Community – Bryan Yorke
• Bats in Trees – Rich Flight
• Mapping Cumbria’s Dragonflies – David Clarke
• Ecosystem Canaries – Peter Woodhead
• Trail Cameras and Recording Technology – John Martin

Recorders' Conference 2015

Topics included:

• Launch of the Cumbria Bird Atlas – Stephen Westerberg, Cumbria Bird Club
• Movements of Wintering Gees and Swans on the Solway – Frank Mawby
• Finding and Monitoring Dormice in Cumbria – Tony Marshall
• Lost and Found Fungi Project – Brian Douglas, Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew
• Alien vs Predator – the Harlequin ladybird in Britain, Richard Comont
• Cumbria Geoconservation Group and the Local Geological Sites

Recorders' Conference 2014

Presentations included:

• What would Darwin Tweet? – Richard Burkmar
• Polecats and Pine Martins – Elizabeth Croose, Vincent Wildlife Trust
• CBDC Habitat Connectivity Projects – Moustafa Eweda
• Recording Cumbria’s bats – Rich Flight
• Lichens of Cumbria – Allan Pentecost
• What’s at Witherslack – Jim Thomas