Welcome to the Polish BMS website!
This page contains information about the Polish Butterfly Monitoring Scheme.
Be part of the eBMS community counting butterflies!
Material Information
- Transect Manual
Discover the transect methodology for butterfly monitoring, the methodology used to monitor butterflies and understand their conservation status. In this manual, you will learn the simple and basic rules to follow when performing a transect.
eBMS Transect Manual (English)
Download the Field Sheet (pdf English) for registering your data on the field
- eBMS Guidelines
Download the complete eBMS guide on this link (in English). It includes information on how to create new transects, edit your transects, add visits and see where to generate the graphs of your data.
Some parts of the guide could change, as the website is updated.
-Field Guide Poland
This guide aims to facilitate the identification of 102 selected species of butterflies, with the highest probability to find them in Poland. This selection covers both common and rare species, including those with a regional range. This guide is also a help for those wishing to get involved in butterfly monitoring in Europe.
You can download the pdf guide Field Guide Poland (in Polish) directly to your device or print it directly (select the booklet option in the printer).
- Contact
Please, contact the coordinators before starting a transect, they can help you with where to do your transect and give advice on butterfly monitoring. If you would like to participate in monitoring butterflies in Poland, contact the coordinators: monitoringmotyli@uwb.edu.pl
Facebook page: @laskotanimotylaskrzydkami
Media:
- An article entitled "Motylowy spacer" published in the spring in the Przyroda Polska, the BMS is described
- the article on butterfly migrations published in July in the Wiedza i Życie
- the interview with the Polish coordinators in the newspaper Polityka dedicated to butterfly conservation.