Welcome to the Irish Butterfly Monitoring Scheme recording home page.
This page presents information on how to use the eBMS application to set up transects for your monitoring walks in Ireland, entering your data and viewing your annual summary of your walks.
Quick Guide
These are the simple steps to get you started with entering data on the new online system.
For users who are moving across from the old Irish Butterfly Monitoring application, and using eBMS for the first time, please Register for a new account using the exact same email address you used on the old platform. Once completed you can Login, as below, to access all your existing transects and recordings.
- Go to Login if you already have an account or Register for an account if you don’t.
- Go to ‘My Sites’ to set up new transect routes, or review the details of existing ones.
- Go to ‘My Walks’ to enter the data for your transect routes.
- Go to 'My samples' to review everything submitted by you on the system and edit any record.
- You can download everything on 'My downloads’.
- Go to ‘Annual Report’ to review your annual butterfly data, and to see what’s been entered for other transects you shared.
eBMS Guidelines
Manual
Download the complete eBMS guide on this link, It includes information on how to create new transects, edit your transects, add visits and see where to generate the graphs of your data. Please note that some parts of the guide could change, as the website is continually updating.
Video Tutorials
- Introduction to the eBMS Website
- New Transect Data Entry layout and functions - eBMS Website
- How to draw a transect - eBMS Website
- Add a transect visit on the eBMS Website
- Other information on the eBMS application and Butterfly Conservation Europe.
Irish Monitoring Resources and Information
For more information on the Irish Butterfly Monitoring Scheme and to access a suite of resources to support recorders with butterfly recording and to develop identification skills please visit Irish Butterfly Monitoring Scheme - National Biodiversity Data Centre.
Contact
Please, contact the Irish coordinator before starting a transect, they can help you where to do your transect and give advice on butterfly monitoring.
If you have any technical issues with your Irish transects or would like to participate in monitoring butterflies in Ireland, please do not hesitate to contact the Irish coordinator by sending an email to [email protected].
Privacy Notice
By submitting records through the Irish Butterfly Monitoring Scheme you agree that your record will be freely available and licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence, and that your name will be associated with the record.
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