Resources
The Bedfordshire Bird Atlas is being organised by the Bedfordshire Bird Club to run through the summer months of April to July from 2007 until 2011. Volunteer fieldworkers are coordinated by stewards who are responsible for the various ten kilometre squares which fall within the county boundary. These stewards are coordinated in turn by the atlas committee which comprises of Steve Blain, Rob Dazley, Dave Kramer, Barry Nightingale and Dave Odell.
Fieldworkers are allocated one or more tetrads (a tetrad is a 2-km by 2-km square which is directly aligned to the grid on Ordnance Survey maps) for which they try to find as many species displaying some sort of breeding behaviour as they can.
This information is then used to create a distribution map for each species displaying three different levels of assurance that breeding has occurred. These are possible breeding, probable breeding and confirmed breeding.
If you would like to get involved please see the contacts page to identify the 10-km steward for the area that you would like to survey and/or the area in which you live.
More detailed instructions can be found on the Fieldwork page.
Instructions
Read online or download instructions and guidance for the Bedfordshire Bird Atlas and the BTO national Bird Atlas 2007-11.
Forms
Download the recording form for use with the Bedfordshire Breeding Bird Atlas and a list of evidence codes to be used with it.
By following the links it is also possible to download or request forms for the national Bird Atlas 2007 -11. Note that the Beds Atlas codes are slightly different from the Bird Atlas 2007 -11 codes, so please ensure you use the correct code according to which survey work you are submitting.
Maps
Access the Ordnance Survey Get-A-Map service to print a map of any tetrad, see where there are gaps in the coverage of the county and understand how this project is interacting with work in adjacent counties.
