Teesmouth Bird Club

Northumbria Mammal Group is embarking on a project to produce a publication on the mammals of the north east. It is intended to be a summary of what we know about the current status of each mammal species in the north east plus any historical changes in distribution and any other points of interest or contextual information.

It isn't meant to be primarily an atlas but distribution maps for each species would form an important part of it. Consequently one of the first tasks is to try and blitz as many verified mammal records as possible. As you will be aware many mammals are woefully under recorded, including such ubiquitous ones as Wood Mice, which is why I am asking if you could let us have any mammal records that you have or that you come across.

A blank recording form for entering any records can be accessed by clicking here (press cancel when asked for username and password). The minimum info required is species (must be sure of ID to that level); date (year would do); grid ref (4 figure is fine) and your name. As well as using the records for the mammal group project I will pass a copy of the records on to the relevant County recorders, including North Yorkshire, unless you have any objections to me doing that. Please send me your records to ian.bond105 at ntlworld.com (replace at with @)

Ian Bond