Latest News

Mammal Species Update (16)

4th March 2021

The latest Mammal Species Update is now available.  This is a major update with many splits and new species.  The taxonomy now follows that in the Handbook of the "Mammals of the World" and the "Illustrated Checklist of the Mammals of the World", both published by Lynx,  The distribution data and descriptions have been improved and are now present for all subspecies.

Wildlife Recorder 4 (4.1.191)

28th January 2021

New Features

• It is now possible to include any "spuhs" you have recorded as sightings, e.g. Subalpine/Moltoni's Warbler (Curruca cantillans/subalpina), in lists.  To do this the "Include Spuhs" option must be selected when defining a list.

Fixes 

• In Bird Species update 107 the way "spuhs" are represented changed. This change caused older versions of WR4 to incorrectly add "Spuhs" to lists.  This is fixed in this version, repopulating all lists will remove the "spuhs" from the lists, unless the new "Include Spuhs" option has been selected.
• Various fixes.

Bird Species Update (107)

25th January 2021

The latest Bird Species Update is now available.  This update implements changes in the latest IOC Update Version 11.1

Wildlife Recorder 4 (4.1.188)

4th January 2021

Fixes 

• Various fixes including fix for error when selecting latitude/liongitude for sites and trips using Bing Maps wnen the Windows decimal point prefrence is comma rather than a normal decimal point.

British Moths Database Update (12)

31st August 2020

New Features

• The taxonomy “2013 Checklist” has the option to show vernacular names for most micro moths.  To show micro moths with vernacular names select taxonomy “2013 Checklist” and language “English”.  If you prefer to continue using scientific names only for micro moths select taxonomy “2013 Checklist” and language “Micros without vernacular names”.

• The species distribution data has been improved and now has separate distribution lists for England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales and the Republic of Ireland.

• The database contains the Bradley and Fletcher number in Quick Code 1 and the ABH number in Quick Code 2.

Wildlife Recorder 4 (4.1.161)

22nd May 2020

New Features

• New columns "First date only", "First time", "Last date only" and "Last time" have been added to the sightings query field.  Previously First date & time and Last Date & time could only be displayed combined in a single colimn.  They can still be displayed combined or if preferred  the dates and times can be displayed in separate columns. 

Fixes 

• Corrects error in data uploaded to WR4M which caused WR4M to calculate list counts incorrectly
• Database synchronisation now automatically removes any unused duplicates locations and habitats from the child databases .
• Various other fixes.

Wildlife Recorder 4 Tutorial

Several more tutorials added to WR4 Help Site

Wildlife Recorder Import Converter - 1.0.10

9th November 2019

 New feature

•  It is now possible to specify the format of the date in the data to be imported if this differs from the date settings on your own machine.
  
  To select the import date format for the First Date and Last Date fields click in the formatting column and select the required date format.  N.B if the import data dates contain the month as a text string e.g. 15 Sep 2019, do not select the import date format as the date conversion to the correct format for your machine will be handled automatically.