Can I contribute to the Atlas via BirdTrack?
Yes, any records submitted to the online BirdTrack system will be used as Roving Records for Atlas purposes, at least for sites that fall within single 10-km squares. To help with this, observers submitting BirdTrack records will be asked to clarify later whether or not their ‘sites’ fall within a single tetrad or a single 10-km square. Alternatively, a BirdTrack ‘site’ can be defined that matches a specific tetrad by entering its grid reference online: e.g. when entering ‘casual records’ to BirdTrack, if grid reference is entered as letter S, digits 40, tetrad T, this creates a site called ‘IS40T’, and records entered will be plotted for that tetrad by the national and local atlas. In the ‘comments’ field, specific locations can be entered for some records – e.g. a record of Little Egret in tetrad X29Q might have a comment “@ Cunnigar tip”.
