Marine sightings and strandings
What to do if you find a dead or live stranded marine animal
View marine sightings and marine strandings around Devon's coastline
Species datasets held at DBRC
We hold the following species datasets:
- 800,000 plant records from the Botanical Society of the British Isles
- 500,000 records for the Plymouth area, from the late Dr Andy Stevens (formerly Plymouth City Council Nature Conservation Officer.)
- 450,000 Incidental records
- 253,000 bird records from Devon Bird Watching and Preservation Society
- 200,000 butterfly and moth records from the Devon Moth Group
- 177,300 species records from the County Wildlife Site survey
- 13,500 records from the Biodiversity Monitoring Framework Project.
- 120,000 butterfly records from Butterfly Conservation
- 91,000 dive survey records from Seasearch and the MNCR database
- 11,000 bat records from Natural England
- 6,000 fish and invertebrate records from the Environment Agency
- 2000+ records of cetaceans & other marine megafauna from Sea Watch Foundation and the Cetacean Recording Network volunteers.
- Devon Wildlife Trust nature reserve records.
- Databases for Devon Mammal Groups and Devon Reptile and Amphibian Group.
Click here to get links to these organisations.