YDNPA Wildlife Mapping Project 

Pleas print out the forms below and send them to Tim Thom, 
Parish Map Project,
Yorkshire Dales National Park Park
Grassington

Or email the results to     Tim.Thom@yorkshiredales.org.uk 

Please tell him that you are a member of Craven Conservation Group.
Please let us know at Craven Conservation Group Committee too:  jallinson@daelnet.co.uk
YDNPA Wildlife Mapping Project – basic plant list
Your Name & Address:							Date:

Species
Name	Where?  (please give a six figure grid reference and ideally mark on a map)	How many?	Notes (please make any brief notes that might help in locating the site or any other interest features associated with it).	
Sample	NZ801901	20 plants	Small south facing bank on the edge of an improved pasture.	
Wood cranesbill
				
Meadow cranesbill
				
Bloody cranesbill
				
Rattle
				
Cowslip
				
Bird’s-eye primrose
				
Marsh marigold
				
Bistort
				
Melancholy thistle
				
Globeflower
				
Sand leek
				
Bluebell
				
Rock-rose
				
Gentians
				
Grass of Parnassus
				
Bog asphodel
				
Sundew
				
Butterwort
				
Thrift
				
Mountain pansy

YDNPA Wildlife Mapping Project – basic bird list
Your Name & Address:

Species
Name	Where?  (six figure grid reference and ideally mark on a map)	Date	How many?	Notes (please make any brief notes that might help in locating the site or any other interest features associated with it).	
Sample	NZ801901	25/05/02	20 pairs	Small reservoir	
Wigeon - breeding records only
					
Red Kite 

Hen Harrier 
					
Goshawk
					
Buzzard – confirmed or suspected breeding only.   					
Merlin 
					
Peregrine Falcon 
					
Black Grouse 
					
Barn Owl 
					
Yellow Wagtail 
					
Ring Ouzel
					
Raven - confirmed or suspected breeding only					
Twite 
 					
Corn Crake 
					
Dotterel 
					
Kingfisher - confirmed or suspected breeding only					
Woodcock – any breeding season records 					
Short-eared Owl 
					
Nightjar 
					
Green Woodpecker confirmed or suspected breeding only					
Stonechat 
					
Marsh Tit 
					
Willow Tit
					
Spotted Flycatcher 
					
Grey Partridge 
					
Golden Plover
					
Lapwing
					
Dunlin
					
Snipe
					
Curlew
					
Redshank 
					
Sky Lark
					
Song Thrush
					
Tree Sparrow
					
Linnet
					
Bullfinch
					
Reed Bunting
					
Sand Martin - identify existing colonies or nesting sites					

NOTE: Breeding records should be determined in a number of ways.  Territorial activity (i.e. singing or displaying birds), confirmation of breeding (i.e. adults carrying food, nesting material etc) and/or adults with recently fledged young.  In most cases this type of behaviour can be observed from a safe distance that will not cause any disturbance to breeding birds.   On no account should any species be disturbed whilst either nesting or when they have young. Some species are Schedule 1 species specially protected under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981.  Under the legislation it is an offence to recklessly disturb any of these species whilst they are at or near a nest or while they have dependent young.

YDNPA Wildlife Mapping Project – basic mammal list
Your Name & Address:

							
Species
Name	Where?  (six figure grid reference and ideally mark on a map)	Date	How many?	Notes (please make any brief notes that might help in locating the site or any other interest features associated with it).	
Sample	NZ801901	25/05/02	5	Open pasture near Settle	
Hare

					
Otter (sightings, spraints, tracks)

Water vole (sightings or signs)

YDNPA Wildlife Mapping Project – habitat information

We would also like to obtain some very basic preliminary information on the following habitats for which we have limited data but are important for nature conservation activities.  

•	Hedgerow with a diverse shrub flora and / or ground flora
•	Pond
•	Veteran tree
•	Flower-rich hay meadows
•	Flower-rich enclosed pastures
•	Ivy covered dry stone walls (important for some rare snail species)
•	Enclosed footpaths, bridleways or lanes that have flower-rich verges.

Your Name & Address:						Date:

Habitat type (please circle as appropriate):  Hedge / Pond / Veteran tree (species?……………) / flower-rich hay meadow / flower-rich pasture / Ivy covered drystone wall

Location:  Please provide a six figure grid reference (eg NZ300200)…………………………

Site Description (If you have existing detailed records please send us a copy of these.  If not please give as full a description of the site as possible in the following box (use additional sheets if necessary).  It would also be useful if you were able to mark the site on a copy of a map.