Rubus (Brambles) of Britain and Ireland (UK)'s Boletim

If you are a wildlife observer/recorder and use iNaturalist to upload your photos and to record your observations (and make them available for conservation etc.) then if you use Chrome as your browser (or a Chrome derivative (i.e. Edge, Brave, Opera, etc.)) then you can install 2 tools as extensions in your browser which help during your iNaturalist usage. These extensions are: 'iNaturalist Extension Suite' and 'Tools for iNaturalist' and they can both be downloaded from the Chrome Store.

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Enjoy !!

Sadly, currently, Firefox is not supported and the ability to use Chrome extensions in Firefox has been removed.

When photographing Rubus it is helpful if you take shots of the leaves, the underside of the leaves, a close-up of the stem and, if available, shots of the flowers and fruits. These all help towards achieving a positive identification. Enjoy recording Rubus and posting your photographs on this project to help build a picture of the distribution of the various species !!

See here: https://irecord.org.uk/linking-inaturalist

Data which reaches "Research Grade" in iNaturalist will be passed to iRecord in the NBN - UK's biological data verification process for inclusion of records in the NBN Species Atlas - https://nbnatlas.org/

During the UK Data Verification process it is necessary for the reviewers to be able to assign names of the recorders to the records so that they can have some understanding of the expertise of the individual recorder associated with the record they are looking at.

On iNaturalist many recorders/observers use 'nicknames' as their User Name instead of using their real/actual names; this makes it very difficult if not impossible for UK record verifiers to be certain of some records and as a consequence some data is unable to be used.

If you want your records to be usable within the UK can you please consider changing your User Name in iNaturalist to the following format: "forename_ surname".

Many thanks for your help in this matter.

The NBN Trust is delighted to be bringing you iNaturalistUK (https://uk.inaturalist.org) - in partnership with the Marine Biological Association (MBA) and the Biological Records Centre (BRC). This is the UK portal of the popular, global, wildlife recording app - iNaturalist.org

If you are already a member of the iNaturalist recording community, and mainly record British wildlife, you may wish link to iNaturalistUK.

For more information about iNaturalistUK, please visit: https://nbn.org.uk/inaturalistuk/

If you have any queries, please read our page of Q&As: http://ow.ly/9Vlq50EhvG2

If your question is not answered there, please get in touch via email: inaturalistuk@nbn.org.uk

A Tool to Transfer Your iNat Records to iRecord:

https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/tool-for-exporting-inaturalist-data-to-irecord-or-elsewhere/19160/5

A new project called "Rubus (Brambles) of Britain and Ireland" has been created on iNaturalist today (10/10/2019) to allow the recording of all Rubus species, and hybrids, within the British Isles and Ireland. This follows the addition of ALL the relevant Rubus species names to the iNaturalist species dictionary over the last couple of days.

Enjoy recording Rubus and posting your photographs on this project to help build a picture of the distribution of the various species !! When photographing Rubus it is helpful if you take shots of the leaves, the underside of the leaves, a close-up of the stem and, if available, shots of the flowers and fruits. These all help towards achieving a positive identification.

Cheers.

Steve J. McWilliam