Pan-Species Listing: How to Become a Super-Naturalist

Pan-species listing is a brilliant method to keep track of a lifetime of natural history sightings.A personal list, not just of birds but including every moth, beetle, lichen, sea-spider, liverwort, fungus, slime mould, cetacean… anything and everything, all the species you’ve seen.The list is maintained as part of an online community, following your progress in a fun and gently competitive way. But pan-species listing is not just a game; it generates huge amounts of good quality biological data, while providing a framework for the next generation of naturalists to become experts themselves.This book reveals why the approach was dreamt up, as well as how to do it, what the benefits are and how you too can realise them.The 37 taxonomic classes used on the Pan-Species Listing website each have a section showing which texts, websites, equipment, online groups and information are needed to get started.Along with a detailed section on biological recording and fieldcraft, they make this a ve