Please may I gently remind everyone that the deadline for submitting records for 2011 (or earlier years) to be included in the national and county Atlas surveys is now just a week away.  

 

The British Trust for Ornithology (BTO) has already extended the date for on-line recording into the Atlas database until 31st January 2012. During February and March the BTO will also be importing records from county societies into this database thus I will need to prepare a file of 2011 records for the BTO in the next two weeks or so.  All relevant records for earlier years have already been passed to the BTO and clearly all observations recorded through the BTO on-line systems (like Birdtrack) are included automatically.  I already have received a large number of records for 2011 but I am aware of observers or compilers of local records who normally supply records directly to the SOS and from whom I have not yet received 2011 records.  

 

Obviously records arriving after the BTO’s cut-off date will still be entered into the SOS database, appear in the Sussex Bird Report and be used for conservation purposes but will not form part of the local or national Atlas.

 

John Newnham ( This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it )