Pan Species Listing. How to Become a Super-Naturalist. 2026.illus. 404 p. gr8vo. Paper bd.

Pan-species listing is a brilliant method to keep track of a lifetime of
natural history sightings in the British Isles. A personal list, not just
of birds but including every moth, beetle, lichen, sea-spider, liverwort,
fungus, slime mould, cetacean... anything and everything, all the species you've ever seen. The list is maintained as part of an online community, building your progress in a fun and gently competitive way.

But pan-species listing isn't just a game; it generates huge amounts of
quality biological data, while providing a framework for the next generation of naturalists to become experts themselves. This book reveals how the approach was dreamt up, as well as how to do it and what the benefits are. Each of the 38 taxonomic groups used on the Pan-species Listing webs ite has its own section showing which texts, websites, equipment, online groups and information are needed to get started. Along with a detailed chapter on biological recording and fieldcraft, they make this a very handy guide for those who don't necessarily want to list.