Worcestershire Record: Articles by Subject

The following lists try to show the articles from Worcestershire Record by subject, rather than in the order they were originally published. The subject headings are mostly fairly general, and are in no particular order. If an article covers several areas then it may be under just one subject heading.

Subjects

BRC
Worcestershire Recorders
Biodiversity Action Plan
General Interest
Education
Birds
Dragonflies
Butterflies and Moths
Plants (excluding Trees)
Trees
Mammals
Amphibians and Reptiles
Molluscs
Hymenoptera
Hemiptera
Beetles
Land Caddis
Diptera
Orthoptera
Spiders and Harvestmen
Other Invertebrates
Bryophytes
Fungi
Algae
Lichens

Articles

The BRC

WBRC History and Future (Issue 1)
The Development of the Worcestershire Biological Records Centre - Where Are We Now? (Issue 2)
Gomphus vulgatissimus - Overlooked or always there? (Issue 2)
From the Worcestershire Biological Records Centre (Issue 3)
News of the Records Centre (Issue 3)
Report of the Recorder's meeting held on 13th May 1998 (Issue 4)
Worcestershire BRC Developments (Issue 4)
BRC Development (Issue 5)
WBRC on the Web (Issue 5)
The Computerisation of the Biological Records Centre (Issue 5)
Introduction (issue 6)
Supporters Subsrciptions to Worcestershire Biological Records Centre (issue 6)
News from the Data Entry Project (issue 6)
Introduction (Issue 7)
Progress with the National Biodiversity Network - A Visit to Nottingham. (Issue 7)
Progress on Computerisation on WBRC Records (Issue 7)
Upton Warren Worcs BRC Survey Day (Issue 7)
Windmill Hill WWT Reserve Recording Day, 29th May 1999 (Issue 7)
Upton Warren WBRC Survey Day - additional records (Issue 8)
Annual Subscription Due (Issue 8)
Progress on the Worcestershire Biodiversity Action Plan (Issue 8)
Recorder 2000 - The waiting is almost over (Issue 8)
What is the NBN? (Issue 8)
The NBN (Issue 8)
Worcestershire Record No 9 (Issue 9)
Worcestershire Record No 10 (Issue 10)
Editorial (Issue 10)
Annual meeting - 31st March 2001 (Issue 10)
Development Plan for The Worcestershire Biological Records Centre (Issue 10)
Improving Biological Information Management Systems in Worcestershire Final Report Summary - March 2000 (Issue 10)
The BRC - Building an Effective Database (Issue 10)
Field Meetings 2001 (Issue 10)
Editorial (Issue 11)
Field Meetings 2002 (Issue 11)
WBRC Field Meeting Penny Hill Bank & Quarry 21 July 2001 (Issue 11)
WBRC Field Meeting Devils Spittleful 1 September 2001 (Issue 11)
Computerisation of Records, Volunteers Wanted, Records Wanted (Issue 11)
Tetrad Survey 2001 (Issue 11)
Worcestershire Biological Records Centre - progress report (Issue 11)
Policy on the use of Worcestershire Biological Records Centre Data (Issue 11)
Editorial (Issue12)
WBRC Developments update (Issue12)
Editorial (Issue 13)
WBRC Developments (Issue 13)
Worcestershire Recorders' Recording Days (Issue 13)
Editorial (Issue 14)
WBRC Manager’s Report (Issue 14)
Worcestershire Record No. 15. Editorial. Annual Meeting 2004. Annual subscription 2004. (Issue 15)
Intro & Kempsey Common 31st May 2003. (Issue 15)
    Gwen Finch Reserve, Birlingham, 5th July 2003. (Issue 15)
    Hillwood Farm & Deaths Dingle 9th August 2003. (Issue 15)
    Flora lists from all recording days.(Issue 15)
Worcestershire Record No. 16. Editorial. Annual Meeting 2005. (Issue 16)
Worcestershire Record No. 17. Editorial. Annual Meeting 2005. Annual subscription 2005. (Issue 17)
WBRC Manger’s Report Simon Wood (Issue 17)
Worcestershire Biological Records Centre Manager’s Report. Simon Wood (Issue 18)
Worcestershire Record No. 19. Editorial. 
Field Recording Days 2005 – lead page (Issue 19)
Worcestershire Biological Records Centre Manager’s Report. Simon Wood (Issue 19)
Worcestershire Recorders Committee. Geoff Trevis (Issue 19)
Worcestershire Recorders Annual Meeting: Election of committee. Geoff Trevis (Issue 19)
WBRC Manager’s Report. Simon Wood (Issue 20)
Elections at the Annual Meeting 18th March 2006. Geoff Trevis (Issue 20)
WBRC Manager’s Report. Simon Wood (Issue 21)
Worcestershire Biological Records Centre Annual Report 2006-7. Simon Wood (Issue 22)
WBRC Manager’s Report. Simon Wood (Issue 23)
Worcestershire Recorders and WBRC Field Recording Days held in 2007. Opening accounts and links to tables of records (Issue 23)
Vascular Plants found at Hollybed and Coombegreen Commons 2005-2007, including records from 2007 recording day. Compiled by Bert Reid (Issue 23)

Worcestershire Recorders

Worcestershire Recorders (Issue 14)
Worcestershire Recorders Committee. Elections. Constitution (Issue 15)
Annual Meeting 2004 - some details. Field Recording days 2004. (Issue 15)
New sub-species of mammal discovered in Worcestershire (?) Anon (Issue 16)
Annual Report from Worcestershire Recorders committee Geoff Trevis (Issue 17)
WBRC and Worcestershire Recorders field recording days 2004. Notes and species lists (Issue 19)
Submitting records to the WBRC. Contacts for help with identifications. Compiled by Martin Skirrow (Issue 20)
ANNUAL MEETING 2007 (Issue 21)
Worcestershire Recorders Constitution – amended (Issue 21)
Worcestershire Recorders Committee Annual Report 2006-7. Geoff Trevis (Issue 22)
Do you want more from your records? John Partridge (Issue 22)
Worcestershire Recorders Field recording days: notes to aid passing data to the WBRC (Issue 22)
Annual Meeting March 2008 (Issue 23)
Field Recording Days dates for 2008 (Issue 23)
Interesting records from the Recorder’s Committee. Geoff Trevis (Issue 23)

Biodiversity Action Plan

Desk Confinement and Databases. A Report from the BAP Manager (Issue 10)
Worcestershire Biodiversity Partnership Newsletter (Issue12)
News from Worcestershire Biodiversity Partnership (Issue 14)
Worcestershire Vision mapping project. Helen Sharman and Becky Lashley (Issue 18)
Vision mapping: the story so far. Becky Lashley (Issue 19)
Vision Mapping, one year on ... . Becky Lashley (Issue 20)
Vision mapping – 18 months on … Becky Lashley (Issue 21)

General Interest

Insect Photography: An Added Enjoyment To Your Recording With Real Scientific Value! (Issue 4)
Pooling Our Knowledge For The Common Good (Issue 4)
The Return Of The Magnificent Seven? (Issue 4)
Luck Sometimes Holds Out (Issue 4)
Grafton Wood Recording Day (Issue 5)
Records for Biodiversity Priority Species (Issue 5)
Book review (Issue 5)
Summer 1999 Activities (Issue 6)
Recording - What's it for? (Issue 6)
A Bibliography of Worcestershire's Natural History (Issue 7)
Special Wildlife Sites and Species (Issue 7)
Worcestershire Red Data Book: Critical Analysis Of Specifically The Structure (Issue 7)
The Abstract Centre of Organisation (Best Use of Funds) (Issue 7)
Survey and Interpretation of (Particularly Invertebrate) Species Lists (Issue 7)
Records from a 'Local Patch' - Drakes Broughton Orchards (Issue 8)
Glow Worms? (Issue 8)
Abstract Centre of Organisation - A Reply (Issue 8)
Recording Day at Grimley Brick Pits (North) 29th July 2000
Using species records in Recorder 2000 (Issue 9)
Species knowledge in site management - the need for local information (Issue 9)
Wyre Forest Study Group (Issue 9)
Adopt a square (or a plot or a pond) (Issue 9)
Consumer GPS comes of age (Issue 9)
List of Computerised Records Per Tetrad at 12th April 2001 for some Invertebrates. (Issue 10) Large File!
Experimental Monitoring Project at Kemerton (Issue 10)
Worcestershire Natural Areas (Issue 10)
Tetrading in SP05 15th April 2001 (Issue 10)
Wyre Forest Study Group (Issue 11)
Kemerton Cuttings: News from the Kemerton Trust (Issue 11)
Records of Note 2001 (Issue 11)
Records from Grimley Brick-Pits (Issue12)
Kemerton Cuttings March 2002 (Issue12)
Field meetings 2002 (Issue12)
News and Information (Issue12)
The use of old records - some worked examples (Issue12)
Skills on Show (Issue 13)
Kemerton Cuttings (Issue 13)
Kemerton Cuttings (Issue 15)
Records of note 2003 (Issue 15)
Wyre Forest Study Group. Rosemary Winnall (Issue 16)
Records from Ashton-under-Hill 2003. Roger Umpelby (Issue 16)
More recent records of note. Kevin McGee (Issue 16)
Selected highlights of 2003 with photographs. Kevin McGee (Issue 16)
Records of protected species wanted. (Issue 17)
Records from Ashton-under-Hill 2004. Roger Umpelby. (Issue 17)
Birds and bugs June to September 2004. Mark & Christine Turner (Issue 17)
Kemerton cuttings to October 2004. John Clarke. (Issue 17)
Recent records of note. Kevin McGee (Issue 17)
A ‘user-friendly’ specimen hunting technique. John Meiklejohn (Issue 18)
Rough grass, small areas. John Partridge (Issue 18)
Kemerton cuttings. John Clarke (Issue 18)
Recent records of note, winter 2005/5. Kevin McGee (Issue 18)
Kemerton Cuttings. John Clarke (Issue 19)
Cherry Orchard, Worcester. Geoff Trevis (Issue 19)
A survey of old cherry orchards near Bewdley. Brian M Stephens (Issue 19)
Worcestershire Entomology Day 2006 on 28th October (Issue 20)
News from a wildlife CCTV camera! Rosemary Winnall (Issue 20)
Kemerton cuttings. John Clarke (Issue 20)
The alluvial archeobiota of the Worcestershire River Avon. P F Whitehead (Issue 20)
John Meiklejohn (Issue 21)
More news from the wildlife cameras! Rosemary Winnall (Issue 21)
Kemerton cuttings April to September 2006. John Clarke (Issue 21)
Records of note 2006. Kevin McGee (Issue 21)
A helping voice for checking records. John Partridge (Issue 21)
Kemerton cuttings. John Clarke (Issue 22)
Silent Fields Comment on this new book documenting ‘pest’ control during last 100 years. Harry Green (Issue 22)
WORCESTERSHIRE ENTOMOLOGY DAY Saturday 20th October 2007 (Issue 22)
More news from the wildlife CCTV cameras! Rosemary Winnall (Issue 22)
A summary of observations and events June to December 2006. Mark & Christine Turner (Issue 22)
Floods 2007. Harry Green (Issue 23)
Bugs Britannica (Issue 23)
Kemerton Cuttings. John Clarke (Issue 23)
Records of note 2007. Kevin McGee (Issue 23)
Which species are really still present at Hartlebury Common SSSI? Joy M Rooney (Issue 23)

Education

Certificate in Biological Recording and Species Identification (Issue 2)
Training Courses (Issue 10)
Courses for adults on Identification and Recording (Issue 11)
WWT Programme of Courses 2004 (Issue 15)
WWT Adult identification and recording courses 2005 Programme. Tessa Carrick (Issue 17)
Identification and associated courses organised by Worcestershire Wildlife Trust (Issue 20)
The Littletons in 1985 – a natural history diary. Terry Knight (Issue 20)

Birds

BTO Bird Surveys
BTO Survey Of Breeding Lapwings In England & Wales, 1998 (Issue 3)
Waterways Breeding Birds Survey (WBBS) (Issue 3)
County Herons On A High (Issue 3)
Winter Blackcap Project (Issue 4)
Wintering Blackcaps (Issue 4)
Flies And Micromoths - Old Birds Nests Wanted (Issue 4)
Green Woodpeckers: Unusual Feeding Behaviour (Issue 4)
Nightingales 1998 (Issue 4)
Wintering Blackcaps Survey - Help Wanted (Issue 5)
Nightingales in Worcestershire, Summer 1998 (Issue 5)
BTO Lapwing Survey 1998 (Issue 5)
Lapwing and Golden Plover Survey Winter 1998-99 (Issue 5)
BTO Breeding Birds Survey (Issue 5)
Migrant Bird Recording at Broadway Gravel Pit Nature Reserve (Issue 6)
Common Buzzards in Worcestershire (Issue 6)
Nightingales in Worcestershire 1999 (issue 6)
Birds in Worcestershire - November 1998 to February 1999 (issue 6)
Wintering Blackcaps in Worcestershire 1998/9 - A Simple Survey (issue 6)
Blackcaps and Other Birds Visiting Mahonia Flowers (issue 6)
Birds in Worcestershire - April to November 1999 (issue 7)
BTO Surveys (issue 7)
Nightingale Survey - Worcestershire 1999 Results (issue 7)
Birds At The New Gwen Finch Wetlands, Birlingham: July/August 1999 (issue 7)
Loss of Dunnock Nest - To a Frog! (Issue 7)
Birds inWorcestershire - November 1999 to April 2000 (Issue 8)
What Do Buzzards Eat? (Issue 8)
1999 Breeding Season Survey of Common Buzzard around Broadway (Issue 8)
Seabird 2000 (Issue 8)
Village Swallows (Issue 8)
Woodpeckers of Rock Coppice (Issue 8)
Radio Birds (Issue 8)
What do buzzards eat? (Issue 9)
Birds in Worcestershire May-October 2000 (Issue 9)
BTO Surveys (Issue 9)
Birds in Worcestershire - November 2000 to April 2001 (Issue 10)
BTO Surveys (Issue 10)
What do Buzzards Eat? (Issue 10)
Wintering Chiffchaffs, Phylloscopus collybita, and its sub-species, At Worcestershire Sewage Works (Issue 10)
Calling All Cuckoos (Issue 10)
Merlin Falco columbarius in SE Worcestershire (Issue 10)
Wintering Gulls in Worcestershire (Issue 10)
Birds in Worcestershire - May to October 2001 (Issue 11)
What do Buzzards eat? (Issue 11)
Dates of the first Cuckoo in spring 1916 - 2000 (Issue 11)
British Trust for Ornithology Surveys (Issue 11)
Spotted Flycatcher survey (Issue 11)
Wintering Gulls in Worcestershire Part 3 Lesser Black-backed Gull (Issue 11)
Birds in Worcestershire November 2001 to April 2002 (Issue12)
Cuckoos in Worcestershire 2001 (Issue12)
Fieldfare Orchard (Issue12)
Pintail in the Severn Vale (Issue12)
Swallows in 2001 (Issue12)
What do Buzzards eat? (Issue12)
BTO Surveys (Issue 13)
Buzzard Story (Issue 13)
Assemblage of Common Buzzards (Issue 13)
Wren at peanut feeder (Issue 13)
Further encounter with a sparrowhawk (Issue 13)
Crossbills (Issue 13)
Birds in Worcestershire - April 2002 to October 2002 (Issue 13)
Bredon Hill Spotted Flycatcher Survey (Issue 13)
Egrets of Worcestershire (Issue 13)
Lesser Spotted Woodpecker - New at Upton Warren (Issue 13)
Worcester Barn Owl Society (Issue 13)
Observations of pre-roosting behaviour of Corvids at Bunkers Hill Wood (Issue 13)
Study of the importance of gardens for Tree Sparrows (Issue 13)
Chaddesley Wood bird surveys (Issue 13)
BTO Surveys (Issue 14)
Birds in Worcestershire November 2002 to April 2003 (Issue 14)
Sparrowhawk stalking on foot (Issue 14)
What do buzzards eat? (Issue 14)
Mallard feeding frenzy (Issue 14)
Dates of First Cuckoo in Spring (Issue 14)
Rose-coloured starling in SE Worcestershire (Issue 14)
Raptor watching in SE Worcestershire (Issue 14)
Great Cormorants on Moors Pool, Upton Warren (Issue 14)
What should WBRC do about bird records? (Issue 15)
Birds in Worcestershire May-October 2003.(Issue 15)
Raptor round-up January to August 2003, Evesham to Cotswold escarpment. (Issue 15)
Crossbill (Issue 15)
BTO Surveys. Harry Green (Issue 15)
Spotted Flycatcher Project 2003. (Issue 15)
Wintering Common Pochard & Tufted Duck, Moors Pool, Upton Warren. (Issue 15)
Buzzards - yet more! (Issue 15)
Breeding Avocets in Worcestershire (Issue 15)
The status and numbers of roof-nesting gulls in Worcester (Issue 15)
Chapter Meadows Bird Survey 2003 (Issue 15)
Recording Worcestershire’s breeding birds. A new project. Harry Green (Issue 16)
Birds in Worcestershire November 2003 to April 2004. Gavin Peplow (Issue 16)
BTO Surveys. Harry Green (Issue 16)
Kites and buzzards. Mark Turner (Issue 16)
What do buzzards eat? (Issue 16)
Spotted flycatchers. John Clarke (Issue 16)
Trench Wood: Common Bird Census (CBC) and Butterfly Transects. John Tilt (Issue 16)
 Recording Worcestershire’s breeding birds – a new project. Harry Green (Issue 17)
BTO Surveys. Harry Green. (Issue 17)
Observations of feeding redwings and fieldfares. John Robinson (Issue 17)
Birds in Worcestershire May to October 2004. Gavin Peplow (Issue 17)
Bredon Hill Spotted Flycatcher survey 2004. John Clarke (Issue 17)
Recording Worcestershire’s breeding birds. Harry Green (Issue 18)
BirdTrack (Issue 18)
Birds in Worcestershire November 2004 to April 2005. Gavin Peplow (Issue 18)
Waxwings and eastern buntings in Worcestershire. Andy Warr (Issue 18)
The Pine Bunting in Worcestershire 15-24th January 2005. Gavin Peplow (Issue 18)
More buzzard news. Rosemary Winnall  (Issue 18)         
Notes on colour ringed waxwings in Worcestershire. Gavin Peplow (Issue 18)
All out for a duck – Wigeon ringing at Bredons Hardwick. John Hodson (Issue 18)
Birds and bugs October 2004 to January 2005. Mark & Christine Turner (Issue 18)
A Waxwing Winter arrives at Broadway. Mark & Christine Turner (Issue 18)
Antagonistic behaviour of Green Woodpecker. Mark & Christine Turner (Issue 18)
Long-tailed tits September 2004 to March 2005. Garth Lowe (Issue 18)
Bredon Hill Spotted Flycatcher survey. John Clarke (Issue 18)
THE SPOTTED WHAT!? A book by John Clarke (order form in .pdf format) (Issue 18)
A summarised report of Peregrine observations at Pershore Abbey. Mark & Christine Turner (Issue 19)
Birds in Worcestershire May to October 2005. Gavin Peplow (Issue 19)
Barn owls. Johnny Birks (Issue 19)
What do buzzards eat? (Issue 19)