Recorders' Conference
Established in 2011 the Recorders Conference has become an Annual Event welcoming speakers and recorders from Cumbria and beyond.
We aim for a range of speakers and posters on a wide variety of topics - focused on a particular species, group or habitat; results of recording and monitoring projects; and ideas, techniques and resources to help you get involved. The conference offers a chance to meet others interested in exploring nature, share discoveries and learn more about the species which make their home in Lakeland.
Recorders' Conference 2021
Thank you to all those that attended this years' online conference and a bigger thank you to the 16 presenters. We are currently collating the text that goes alongside the "2020 Wildlife in Cumbria" presentations from our County Recorders and will be uploading them as soon as possible.
Recorders' Conference 2020
Our keynote speaker was Steve Garland, Entomologist and Chair of The Wildlife Trusts England Committee who talked about 'Recording Recovery - Biological Recording for a Wilder Future." The main room contained displays and posters from a range of recorders and societies:
- Cumbria Dragonfly Atlas Online
- Cumbria Lichen and Bryology Group
- Macro photography demonstration using a laptop and plug in camera
- Cumbria GeoConservation
- Get Cumbria Buzzing
- Cumbria Amphibian and Reptile Group
- Digitally colour coding red squirrel fur and the potential conservation applications
- Searching for Chrysolina oricalcia
- Found Species: Tufted Loostrife (Lysimachia thyrsiflora)
- Second Hand Natural History books for sale
- Cumbria Fungi Identification Guide for sale
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
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
