Your Records

Moth Records

Sending in your butterfly and moth records to us is essential if we are to continue our conservation work. We welcome information on sightings from anywhere within our three counties of Berkshire, Buckinghamshire or Oxfordshire. Anyone can send in records, whether or not you are a member of Butterfly Conservation, although if you are not a member we do hope that you will seriously consider becoming one! Records must be sent to the recorders listed below for inclusion in our database, even if you have already sent some information to any of our Champions or to the Webmaster for the website Sightings Pages.

A record can constitute any number of insects from one sighting upwards. A single Orange-tip or Hummingbird Hawk-moth seen in your garden is just as important to us as larger numbers of sightings. Records should include a minimum of date, location (preferably with a six-digit grid reference or better), species and numbers seen. Records can be sent in annually or at more regular intervals if you prefer. They can be sent by post or by e-mail. Those of you who use specialist computer wildlife recording programmes such as MapMate should contact the appropriate Recorder first to arrange a file transfer.

Butterfly Records

All butterfly records for Berkshire, Buckinghamshire or Oxfordshire should be sent to the Upper Thames Branch Butterfly Records Officer.

Butterfly Records Officer

Jim Asher
24 Fettiplace Road
Marcham
Abingdon
Oxon OX13 6PL

Butterfly recording forms can be downloaded here as either Microsoft Word or Adobe PDF files. Please use the Casual Recording Form if you have records from several different locations. The Site Recording Form can be used if you have several records from just one particular site:

Click here to download the Casual Butterfly Recording Form (PDF file)

Click here to download the Casual Butterfly Recording Form (Word file)

Click here to download the Butterfly Site Recording Form (PDF file)

Click here to download the Butterfly Site Recording Form (Word file)

Moth Records

Moth records for the three counties should be sent directly to the relevant County Moth Recorder.

County Moth Recorder for Berkshire

Martin Harvey
Evermor
Bridge Street
Great Kimble
Aylesbury
Bucks HP17 9TN

County Moth Recorder for Buckinghamshire

Martin Albertini
11 Hargrave Road
Maidenhead
Berks SL6 6JR

County Moth Recorder for Oxfordshire

Martin Townsend
69 Alice Smith Square
Littlemore
Oxford
Oxon OX4 4NQ