Celebrating
Cornwall's Mammals
from dormice to dolphins!
Recording Mammals
Learning how to identify mammals and the tracks and signs
they leave behind and becoming a ‘Mammal Detective’
is great fun and you are definitely in the right place if
this is something you are interested in!
Mole hill
Photograph by ALex Howie
The mammals of Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly vary in size
enormously from the smallest – the Pygmy Shrew Sorex
minutus, about the size of your thumb, to the largest,
being the Fin Whale Balaenoptera physalus, second
largest to the Blue Whale Balaenoptera musculus,
the largest living creature on the planet!
Our mammals not only vary in size but in abundance too. Some
of our mammals are very common and easily seen eg the Rabbit
Oryctolagus cuniculus and the Grey Squirrel Sciurus
carolinensis. Some however are nationally rare and not
so easily seen, like the Hazel Dormouse Muscardinus avellanarius
and the Otter Lutra lutra.
European otter Lutra lutra
Photograph by Jayne Herbert
No matter what size the mammal is or how rare or common it
is, we need to know if you see one! It’s very easy;
all you need to do is note down:
- What you saw
- Where you saw it
- When you saw it
- Who you are
Recording packs
The following mammal recording packs are available for download:
- Marine Mammal recording pack
- Small Mammal recording pack
- Rabbit and Hare recording pack
- Bat recording pack
See our Recording Packs page for
more information, or download packs from our downloads
page.
Badger paw prints
Photograph by Roger Driver
How to record wildlife
Visit the ‘How
to record wildlife’ web page on the ERCCIS website
for more information on recording.
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