Harrow Nature Conservation

Biological Recording 101: Tuesday 20th October 2026

Part of a program run by the Biological Recording Company in collaboration with Harrow Council. This and other courses in the series are aimed at existing volunteers and early career conservationists and students, as well as members of the public who after the training will volunteer on recording and surveying sessions on Harrow sites. There is no charge to participants.

Learn how to turn your wildlife observations into valuable data and get to grips with iRecord.

Biological recording is the scientific practice of finding, identifying and recording the presence of living organisms, helping us to understand the distribution, abundance, associations and changes, both in time and space, of wildlife. Biological records are the bedrock of conservation science – essential for a wide range of conservation actions from assessing the impact of planning applications to undertaking conservation status assessments for species.

This course prepares those new to biological recording with an understanding of how biological recording works and how casual species observations can be converted into useful biodiversity datasets. Students will undertake a simple field recording activity and submit their data through the iRecord platform, generating real biological records as they learn.

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