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We provide access to species, habitat and other biodiversity information in the North Merseyside area. Services are free to many users. Find out more here!
The majority of the information we hold has come from volunteers, naturalists and associated organisations. Shared to enable more informed and transparent conservation. Are you considering sharing information with us? Find out more here!
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We support biodiversity related projects, wildlife recording and field and office based volunteering in our area. Find out what’s on and how you can get involved!
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We feed data directly into the local development control process, strategic review and on to national and even international conservation and research as such we must have confidence in the data we supply. Review the process we use to improve confidence in data.
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The term biodiversity covers wide range of information on the natural environment and there are an enormous amount of unique sources for data covering species and habitat and the additional evidence this has been used to create. Explore what we hold.
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Merseyside BioBank is hosted by Sefton Council but operates across the Liverpool Combined Authority area (Liverpool City Region) and across a wide range of public, private and charitable interests. Find out more about how we’re managed here.
Latest News & Notes From The Field
Dr Phil Smith Wildlife Notes August 2024
Wildlife notes August 2024 Dr Phil Smith Despite the opinion of many, August was a dry month, England having 62% of average rainfall. That is comparable to the 48.5mm measured by Rachael Parks, which was about 64% of normal August rainfall for Formby. It was a windy month, including a named storm on 22nd-23rd, but…
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Dr Phil Smith – July 2024 Wildlife Notes
July was the season of the Ragwort, which, with Wild Parsnip and Wild Carrot, proliferated on the Sefton dunes to an extent I have never previously witnessed in over 50 years. “Ten-thousand saw I at a glance” was more appropriate to Ragwort than to Wordsworth’s Daffodils. Ragwort has the popular reputation of being poisonous to…
Dr Phil Smith – June 2024 Wildlife Notes
The Met Office reports that June was dry, cool and sunny. Persistent northerly winds meant temperatures averaged about 2oC below normal, while UK rainfall was 29% lower than usual. This fits quite well with Rachael Park’s rainfall measurements. She had 39mm of rain on 12 days in her Formby garden, about 40% below average. Thankfully,…
Dr Phil Smith – May 2024 Wildlife Notes
According to the Met Office, May 2024 was the warmest on record, mainly due to high overnight temperatures. It was also the hottest spring overall. Rainfall in England was above average, though the Met Office maps show that the Sefton Coast bugged the trend, having roughly normal rainfall. This was confirmed by Rachael Parks’ rain-gauge…
Dr Phil Smith – April 2024 Wildlife Notes
An unusual April – no drought! Rachael Parks tells me there were 19 days with measurable rainfall in Formby, totalling about 55mm, which is around average for the month. Nationally, there was about 55% more rain than usual, including a named storm from 6th to 9th. The latter coincided with very high spring tides (10.2m…