Wildlife
What lives near you?
Every open wildlife record within reach of your postcode from the last three years: the species seen most, the most recorded birds, mammals, insects, plants and more, the latest sightings, and the recorders to thank.
- Most recorded species
- By group
- Latest sightings
How this works
The NBN Atlas gathers wildlife sightings from hundreds of recording schemes, societies, local record centres and apps such as iRecord and BirdTrack into one database of over 300 million records. The page asks it for everything recorded within the circle around your postcode over the last three years, keeping only records whose contributors published them under an open licence (CC0 or CC BY), and shows what was seen most, by group, and most recently. Each dataset drawn on is credited, as the Atlas asks. Cached for six hours.
Sources
- NBN Atlas occurrence records (CC0 and CC BY records only), credited to their datasets on the page.
- Postcodes: postcodes.io / ONS Postcode Directory (OGL v3).
Records are where people looked, not a survey: gaps mean nobody recorded there, not that nothing lives there. Sensitive species are shown at a coarser location by the Atlas.