UK casual records from members of BASC - 1980 onwards
The British Association for Shooting and Conservation
Description
Casual records from members of BASC using our online Green Shoots Mapping website. They can provide a records for any species on the NBN dictionary. The bulk of the data is birds and mammals. There are no negative records in this dataset.
Geographic Description
UK, with a bias to rural areas. The data coverage has no bias built into it other than it is collected from members who choose to provide data. This data is shared a maximum resolution of 2km square.
Purpose
Collection of data from land used for shooting to help improve conservation knowledge.
Data quality
This data has been validated and verified by Record Cleaner only, i.e. it has not been verified by experts such as county recorders. Records that failed have verification have not been included. Our confidence in the data is good as we believe BASC members have better skills in identification than the general public.
Methods
Casual records through our Green Shoots Mapping website.
Citation
The British Association for Shooting and Conservation ([Insert download year]). UK casual records from members of BASC - 1980 onwards. Occurrence dataset on the NBN Atlas
Rights
CC-BY-NC
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Digitised records
Looking up... the number of records that can be accessed through the NBN Atlas. This resource was last checked for updated data on 03 Oct 2022. The most recent data was published on 03 Oct 2022.
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