The Highland Biological Recording Group

	Highland Biological Recording Group, c/o 7 Muirden Road, Maryburgh, Ross-shire IV7 8EJ, Scotland, UK. Email the group at
Submitting records
Please note that when you submit records to HBRG they may be made available freely to members, submitted by HBRG to national recording schemes, and placed by HBRG on the NBN Gateway with full public access. If you wish any restrictions to placed on the availability of data, please make this clear at the time of reporting. A full statement of the conditions is available here.
Use this page to submit records of interest to the group by email to . Always include species, date, place, 6-figure NGR (where possible, but at least the 10km square) and any other notes on behaviour or habitat. To submit a single record online, click here. Download a 'Best Practice' guide (.pdf, 120Kb). Download a blank Excel spreadsheet (.xls, 14Kb). See advice on determining NGRs. If you are uncertain of the identification, then a photograph can be uploaded to the HBRG Forum or by email attachment to when, with luck, one of our members will be able to help.
SNH has provided support for T&S expenses incurred in volunteer recording activities in 2008-2010. Read the conditions that apply to this grant here (click to open in browser, right-click to save the 16kB .pdf file to disc). The map opposite shows the least-well represented hectads in Highland, based on the number of records in the HBRG database. Red <10 records; orange 10-49; yellow 50-99. Some of these squares will be quite well covered for some species groups (e.g. vascular plants, butterflies, bumblebees), but should give a guide to areas where general recording will be most rewarding.