National Butterfly Survey 2013
Welcome to the Irish National Butterfly Survey and Database information page.
We
would like to thank all our recorders from around the country who have
contributed to the National Butterfly Database during 2012 and indeed
many who have contributed faithfully over the past few years and even
decades.
Much of this work can be seen in the publication “Millennium Atlas of
Butterflies in Britain and Ireland” which
is regarded as the most comprehensive survey of butterflies ever undertaken in
Britain and Ireland (see below).
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If you wish to take part in our *2013 National Butterfly Survey*please download either a Casual or a Site record sheet. These are in pdf format and you will require a copy of Adobe Reader to open these files.
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Click on the Adobe logo if you need to download a free copy
of the Adobe Reader. 
A simple Spreadsheet
is also available. So if you have Excel you may
prefer to submit your records in this format - the database manager will be very
pleased!
Record sheets from other
Databases such as Mapmate are acceptable but please export as
tab-delimited file.
'Site recording' can be done whenever it suits you e.g. once a week, once a month or several times over the season at a particular site(s). 'Casual' records can be noted from wherever you happen to be in Ireland.
Please include a grid reference (if at all possible) or otherwise a good description of the location and the county.
The local
Ordnance Survey Discovery Map should be
available in your nearest bookshop.
Grid references can also be obtained using a GPS set to the correct datum, or
from Irish Grid Reference or Biology.ie
Please
send your Irish butterfly records
by email to The Dublin Naturalists' Field Club at: dnfc @eircom.net
Or by post to: The Dublin Naturalist Field Club, 35 Nutley Park, Dublin 4, Ireland.
Or on-oline at: SubmitRecords.htm
Information
on interesting sightings and any queries are most welcome by email.
The Dublin Naturalists’ Field Club (DNFC) was founded in 1886 and is the leading natural history society in the Republic of Ireland for the survey and recording of plants and animals. Generations of its members have been actively involved with most of the major surveys and atlas projects co-ordinated by BRC. (Biological Records Centre in Britain) from the “Millennium Atlas of Butterflies in Britain and Ireland” |
Irish
National Butterfly Database
DNFC & Butterfly Ireland 2013