Select region and language:

Welcome to the data entry website!

Important: note that you must download and email your answers to submit your data. Please read instructions below carefully.

On this interactive website, you will be able to enter your collected data from each of the Natural Nations suite of four surveys:

• S1 School Grounds and Habitat

• S2 Birds

• S3 Pollinator and Flowering Plants

• S4 Minibeast and leaves

You will instantly see how your results compare to other UK schools and those in participating European countries. The valuable data will be used to inform a research project by Lund University in Sweden.

Note If you plan to do more than one of the survey protocols (S1, S2, S3 and S4), please retain all the data and enter it altogether in one session. While the data will be temporarily stored on the webpage, you will need to complete the data entry within 24 hours and click on the ‘Download data’ button (see instructions on the ‘Submit data’ page via left pane navigation) to allow the data to be permanently saved. You can go back and correct values before clicking the download button.

Thank you for contributing to science!

Enter the name of your school:

Enter the longitude and latitude of your school. You can find these by right-clicking on Google Maps.

Latitude:

Longitude:

S3

Pollinators and Flowering Plants Survey

Below you can enter the data from the Pollinators and Flowers survey in the 5x5m survey site (S3):

Participants and time:

How many participants are in your survey group?

What is the average age of the participants?

Select the date when the surveying took place:

Enter the time when the surveying started (use the dials or enter the time directly):

Weather and temperature:

How windy was it during the survey? (From leaves being still to moving a lot)

What was the temperature outside during the survey? (°C)

What was the weather like during the survey? (Single choice)

Enter the area (m2) of the following habitat in your 5x5 survey plot:

Plant beds or flowerpots

Damp places

Trees and shrubs

Short grass

Bare ground

Bare walls or fences

Man-made homes (number of)

Concrete or tarmac

Tall grass, wildflowers

Enter the total number of individuals and species you saw for each pollinator group:

Bumblebees

Individuals:

Species:

Honeybees

Solitary bees

Wasps

Beetles

True bugs

Butterflies

Moths

Hoverflies

Other flies and mosquitos

Enter the data for the plants:

Rate your 5x5m survey plot on the floweriness-scale:

How many different species of flowering plants did you find?

(Optional) If you identified the species, write the three most common below

How do you rate your experience with using this survey? (Use slider below)

S4

Minibeasts and Leaves Survey

Below you can enter the data from the Minibeasts and Leaves survey in the 1x1m squares (S4):

Participants and time:

How many participants are in your survey group?

What is the average age of the participants?

Select the date when the surveying took place:

Enter the time when the surveying started (use the dials or enter the time directly):

Weather and temperature:

How windy was it during the survey? (From leaves being still to moving a lot)

What was the temperature outside during the survey? (°C)

What was the weather like during the survey? (Single choice)

How many 1x1m squares did you survey?

What was the dominant habitat for each square? For each dominant habitat, write the numbers of squares with this habitat in brackets:

Enter the total number of individuals and species you saw for each minibeast group:

Earthworms

Individuals:

Species:

Ants

Centipedes and millipedes

Woodlice

Spiders and harvestmen

Beetles

True bugs

Insect larvae

Snails and slugs

Other minibeasts

Rate the mean of your 1x1m survey plot on the vegetation cover-scale:

How many different types of leaves do you find in all 1x1m squares?

How do you rate your experience with using this survey? (Use slider below)

Download and submit data

Thank you for completing the data entry! Please ensure that all answers are correct.

You will then need to download the data and email it to our team at Lund University. Please send this file to natural_nations[at]cec.lu.se so your data can be included in the research project and added to the website.

Thank you for your participation!

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About us

Natural Nations is an international school grounds biodiversity project funded by Erasmus+ and led by Learning through Landscapes in partnership with Naturskolan i Lund, Lund University, Birdlife Malta and Sociedad Espanola de Ornitologia SEO (Birdlife Spain). To help schools improve their school grounds for wildlife, the Natural Nations project has developed survey methodology to record pollinating insects, minibeasts and leaves, bird populations and habitats and vegetation with supporting educational and cultural heritage resources.

Welcome to the data entry website!

Important: note that you must download and email your answers to submit your data. Please read instructions below carefully.

On this interactive website, you will be able to enter your collected data from each of the Natural Nations suite of four surveys:

• S1 School Grounds and Habitat

• S2 Birds

• S3 Pollinator and Flowering Plants

• S4 Minibeast and leaves

You will instantly see how your results compare to other UK schools and those in participating European countries. The valuable data will be used to inform a research project by Lund University in Sweden.

Thank you for contributing to science!

S1

School Grounds and Habitat Survey

Below you can enter the data from the habitat survey (S1):

Total number of tree and shrub individuals:

Total number of different tree and shrub species:

Number of flowering species:

Number of fruit bearing species:

S2

Bird Survey

Below you can enter the data from the bird survey (S2).

Participants and time:

Weather and temperature:

Enter your bird data. If you know how many individual birds of a species you saw, please enter the number. If you do not have numbers but know the species, please tick present:

Eurasian blackbird (Turdus merula)

Number:

Present:

Common chaffinch (Fringilla coelebs)

Great tit (Parus major)

Blue tit (Cyanistes caeruleus)

House sparrow (Passer domesticus)

Tree sparrow (Passer montanus)

White wagtail (Motacilla alba)

Common starling (Sturnus vulgaris)

Swift (Apus apus)

Collared dove (Streptopelia decaocto)

European robin (Erithacus rubecula)

Wood pigeon (Columba palumbus)

Redstart (Phoenicurus phoenicurus)

Magpie (Pica pica)

Eurasian blackcap (Sylvia articapilla)

Sardinian warbler (Sylvia melanocephala)

Any additional species (3 most common and numbers) can be added below:

How do you rate your experience with using this survey? (Use slider below)

S3

Pollinators and Flowering Plants Survey

Below you can enter the data from the Pollinators and Flowers survey in the 5x5m survey site (S3):

Participants and time:

Weather and temperature:

Enter the area (m2) of the following habitat in your 5x5 survey plot:

Plant beds or flowerpots

Damp places

Trees and shrubs

Short grass

Bare ground

Bare walls or fences

Man-made homes (number of)

Concrete or tarmac

Tall grass, wildflowers

Enter the total number of individuals and species you saw for each pollinator group:

Bumblebees

Individuals:

Species:

Honeybees

Solitary bees

Wasps

Beetles

True bugs

Butterflies

Moths

Hoverflies

Other flies and mosquitos

Enter the data for the plants:

Rate your 5x5m survey plot on the floweriness-scale:

How many different species of flowering plants did you find?

How do you rate your experience with using this survey? (Use slider below)

S4

Minibeasts and Leaves Survey

Below you can enter the data from the Minibeasts and Leaves survey in the 1x1m squares (S4):

Participants and time:

Weather and temperature:

Enter the total number of individuals and species you saw for each minibeast group: