Submit a Record

Send Records to CBDC

There are multiple ways to submit your wildlife data to CBDC, depending on the nature and quantity of your records:

  • For multiple records, use the CBDC Species Recording Sheet available to download below.
  • For one or two records, use the CBDC Online Records Form to submit your records immediately. Access the form HERE.
  • If you a regular recorder, try using iRecord for an easy way to submit any amount of records.
  • If you only record birds or can easily separate out your bird records, please use the Cumbria Bird Club reporting tool.

We appreciate all of your submissions, your records are very valuable towards helping nature conservation in Cumbria, for now and the future.

Submitted records are periodically reviewed and verified by local and national experts. Find out more about record verification here or contact a county recorder here.

CBDC Species Recording Sheet

If you have several records to report or you record over a period of time, please download and fill in the spreadsheet below.

Please email the completed spreadsheet to recordingofficer@cbdc.org.uk.

Download (.xlsx):
CBDC Species Recording Sheet

CBDC Online Records Form

Complete this form if you only have one or two records to submit to Cumbria Biodiversity Data Centre and you have not recorded your observations anywhere else.

Go to:
CBDC Online Records Form

Online Recording with iRecord

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Another way to  record your wildlife sightings is using iRecord online software. iRecord is a website run by the Biological Records Centre at CEH Wallingford. You can enter records, upload photos, and explore yours and others’ data.

Click here to submit a record with iRecord

Cumbria Biodiversity Data Centre

The Cumbria Biodiversity Data Centre at Tullie House Museum, Carlisle keeps wildlife information for the county of Cumbria. Tullie House Museum, in its role as a local natural history museum, has collected and disseminated records of wildlife in Cumbria since its inception in 1893. From the early 1990s the Museum has developed a computerised database of species and habitat records in Cumbria and has taken the central role in providing a local biodiversity data service for the county. This role was restyled as Cumbria Biodiversity Data Centre (CBDC) in 2010, a not-for-profit organisation hosted by Tullie House Museum and advised by local stakeholders.
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