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HOME » How to get involved
Schedule of UKBMS meetings and workshops
National Butterfly Recorders' Meeting: Saturday 29 March 2008
Booking is now open for the ever-popular annual National Butterfly Recorders' Meeting. It will take place at the Birmingham and Midland Institute (see www.bmi.org.uk for a map). The National Butterfly Recorders' Meeting provides feedback about both butterfly recording and monitoring undertaken through the Butterflies for the New Millennium and UK Butterfly Monitoring Scheme projects (including progress in the wider countryside monitoring pilot). Butterfly population trends for 2007 will be unveiled for the first time at the meeting! In addition, we will hear from guest speakers about exciting butterfly projects making use of recording and monitoring data to assess the impacts of climate change, habitat management and other issues (see programme).
Anyone interested in butterflies is welcome; you don't have to be an active recorder. However, we do require advanced booking and there is a (heavily subsidised) registration fee of £5 per person, made on the day, to help cover the costs of venue hire, tea/coffee and buffet lunch. If you would like to book a place please contact Diane Garland at Butterfly Conservation (01929 400209 or info@butterfly-conservation.org) providing your name, address and contact number.
Monitoring meetings, workshops and training events 2008
13th March
Talk: Butterfly Trend in South Dorset
Wareham, Dorset
Contact: Colin Nunn tel: 01929 439211 BC Dorset Branch
15th March
Workshop: Identifying, Surveying & Recording Butterflies and Day-flying Moths
Sherborne, Dorset
Contact: Bill Shreeves butterflies@nascr.net BC Dorset Branch
28th March
Talk: North Dorset Walkers & Regional Surveyors Meeting
Motcombe Village Hall, Dorset
Contact: Bill Shreeves butterflies@nascr.net BC Dorset Branch
29th March
UK National Butterfly Recorders’ Meeting
Birmingham
Contact: Ian Middlebrook imiddlebrook@butterfly-conservation.org Butterfly Conservation
15th April
Talk: Marsh Fritillaries in Northern Ireland
Cooke Centenary Church Hall, Belfast
Contact: Maurice Hughes mhughes@butterfly-conservation Butterfly Conservation
26th April
Workshop: Identifying & Recording Woodland Butterflies
Brede High Woods, Sussex
Contact: Steve Wheatley swheatley@butterfly-conservation.org Butterfly Conservation
26th April
Training Day: Butterflies in Glasgow (BIG) Project
Pollock Country Park, Glasgow
Contact: Robin Anderson tel: 01786 446560 BC South West Scotland Branch
30th April
Workshop: General introduction to identifying and recording the butterflies of Ireland
Murlough Nature Reserve, Northern Ireland
Contact: Catherine Bertrand Catherine.bertrand@mourne.co.uk Mourne Heritage Trust
2nd May
Workshop: Butterfly Identification
Rhydymwyn Nature Reserve, near Mold, North Wales
Contact: North East Wales Wildlife opsmanager@newwildlife.org.uk BC North Wales Branch
17th-18th May
Workshops: Butterfly Monitoring in Scotland
Jupiter Urban Wildlife Centre, Grangemouth, Scotland
Contact: Paul Kirkland pkirkland@butterfly-conservation.org Butterfly Conservation
18th May
Workshop: Woodland Butterfly & Day-flying Moth Basics - Identification, survey & recording
Denge Woods, near Wye, Kent
Contact: Francisca Thompson fthompson@butterfly-conservation.org Butterfly Conservation
31st May
Workshop: Woodland Butterfly Identification
Bentley Wood, Hampshire
Contact: Kate Dent kdent@butterfly-conservation.org Butterfly Conservation
23rd June
Training Event: Recording Spring Butterflies
Waterford Heath, Hertford
Contact: Herts & Middlesex Wildlife Trust tel: 01727 858901
15th-16th July
Course: Butterfly Identification, Habitats & Surveying – Part 1
Shared Earth Trust, near Lampeter, South Wales
Contact: mth@aber.ac.uk
12th-13th August
Course: Butterfly Identification, Habitats & Surveying – Part 2
Shared Earth Trust, near Lampeter, South Wales
Contact: mth@aber.ac.uk
Also see the full list of Moths Count training events
