GREAT CRESTED NEWT RECORDS PLEASE

Suffolk Wildlife Trust’s Pond Project has completed two years’ survey work and surveyed over 750 farm ponds for great crested newts, a UK BAP priority species. Suffolk Biological Records Centre has updated the newt records and we are now working with them to produce valuable map information, alongside analysis of data to help guide great crested newt conservation in the future.

We are now in the last year of the Heritage Lottery Funded project and recent records of great crested newts’ whereabouts would help us further with our survey effort and in prioritising conservation work.

Note!
Whilst our survey technique involves egg searches on plants favoured for egg-laying, larval and adult searches, it should be pointed out that as the great crested newts are protected, all survey techniques which involve disturbance or capture of the newts is illegal without a licence. Thus, we would welcome records from anyone who has inadvertently come across great crested newts in their garden, spotted them in a pond, rather than actively egg, larvae or adult searching.

Juliet Hawkins Suffolk Wildlife Trust

    Tetrad map of Suffolk showing the distribution of the Great Crested Newt

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RECORDS PLEASE

SPECIES NAME
            Latin is preferred but English is quite acceptable, particularly for birds and mammals.

LOCATION
            The name of the place where the record was made or a sketch map of the site.

GRID REFERENCE
            A Grid Reference of at least 4 figures (e.g. TM/1445):
            6 figure references are preferred (e.g. TM/143452).
            All Ordnance Survey maps have instruction on how to read a Grid Reference.

DATE
            The day, month and year of the record.

NAME
            Name (and address if a new contributor) of the person who made the record.

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The Centre can provide:

    Help and advice about recording and identifying Suffolk's flora and fauna.

    Information for teachers on the way schools can get involved through project work.

    Advice on the relevant literature, local societies and experts.

    'Tick' cards for recording all the major groups of plants and animals.

 

    If you would like to get involved in surveys, or want to know more about the work of the Suffolk Biological Records Centre, please contact:

Suffolk Biological Records Centre,
c/o Ipswich Museum,
High Street Ipswich,
Suffolk IPI 3QH.
Tel: (044) 01473 433557