Are Roving Records needed for all species?
RRs will be most important for scarcer or more elusive species, like birds of prey, Kingfisher, Jay, Red Grouse etc and, in particular, owls and other nocturnal or crepuscular species. But to help improve coverage, both at 10-km scale and tetrad scale, records of all species are potentially useful. This is especially so in Co Waterford, where we hope to map as many species as possible at fine (tetrad) scale. So, even for a common species, don’t assume someone else will have recorded it in the same tetrad.
