Bioblitz Results

The One Tree Hill Bioblitz, at Langdon Hills Country Park, took place on 3rd May. A Bioblitz, for those who haven't come across one before, is a group effort to find as many species as possible in a given location. We also had over 30 people involved in the event, and for some this was their first experience of surveying for wildlife! It was great to see so much enthusiasm from so many people.

I was responsible for organising the event, and handling the records afterwards - a significant undertaking in itself! After I spent some time working on our species lists from the event (attempting to get identification down to species level, and eliminating duplicates) we had a list of over 136 different species from roughly 3 hours of surveying. That's a new species found for every 80 seconds! The information from this event is being passed on to local and national databases that monitor wildlife, increasing what we know about the wildlife in the area and thus helping us to protect it.

Prizes for the Best Guess (for guesses closes to the final species total) and Best Blitzer (for greatest overall contribution to the recording) have been decided, and Bioblitz t-shirts will be awarded to winners at the next big Country Park event, which is the Friends of Langdon Hills group's Curry & Glow-worm night on 3rd July. For more information about this event or the Friends group, you can contact Langdon Hills Country Park on langdon.hills@btconnect.com or 01268 542 066.