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Yellow-legged Gull, Clashmore, 19 June 2008.
Spring Alive project - click here or see www.springalive.net for details of this project, tracking sightings of the first Cuckoos, Swallows
& Swifts across Europe.
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Find a grid reference
See www.gridreference.ie/, zoom & click location on map - useful when reporting sightings.
Bird
records - request for sightings: The website compilers are always interested in sightings - not just
of scarcer migrant or winter visitors, but also counts of commoner species. Of particular value are sightings of uncommon
residents like Barn & Long-eared Owls, Red Grouse, Kingfisher or Yellowhammer (precise breeding locations of sensitive
species will not be published online or elsewhere). In addition to any records included on the website, all records
will be added to a larger database of Waterford sightings, to help with ongoing assessment of local bird status. Records
during 2006-2011 will also contribute to the Breeding and Winter Atlas surveys.
Please email any sightings (recent or from any year), or digital
photos, to the website compilers. Any
comments or suggestions re the site would be welcomed. We would also encourage you to submit sightings
to BirdTrack, the new online recording scheme organized by the British Trust for Ornithology (BTO), BirdWatch Ireland (BWI) and the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB).
See also the website of waterfordwildife for other information on local fauna, and links for other relevant websites.
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Latest updates:
- Recent reports to 3
July 2008.
- Breeding Atlas - updated 18 June, including
latest summary of coverage and methods, also species maps.
- Migrant moths & butterflies - updated
19 June.
- Waterford species list - updated
13 May (provisional total 292 species).
download ATLAS NEWSLETTER
BREEDING
ATLAS 1st April-31st July: Fieldwork
for the Breeding Atlas has started again - the third breeding season for the Waterford Atlas, and the first contributing
to the national Breeding Atlas (2008-2011). See the main Breeding Atlas page, and www.birdatlas.net, for preliminary results and details of how to take part.
First WINTER ATLAS season - reminder to recorders: Winter Atlas
fieldwork ended on 29 February and any remaining records should be submitted online or on paper forms as soon as possible.
See the main Winter Atlas page and www.birdatlas.net for preliminary results.
Contributors:
Records, photographs or other items have been provided (since
website went online in September 2004) by: Adrian Allen, Paul Archer, Val Atkins, Stuart Bearhop, Dominic
Berridge, Ronan Breen, Ken Brennan, Pat Brennan, Aidan Brooks, Terry Bryan, Tony Bryant, Martin Bryant, Carol Buckley, David
Burke, Eugene Burke, John Joe Cahill, Liam Cahill, Derek Charles, Dominic Clancy, Sinead Clancy, Cian Clarke, Declan Clarke,
Colin Carthy, Kendrew Colhoun, Kevin Collins, Micheal Cowming, Mick Cowming, Chris Cullen, Denis Cullen, Mary Dennehy, Pat
Dillane, Rosemary Doyle, Brian Duffy, Mary Duggan, Paddy Dwan, Sean Farrell, Colum Flynn, Mark Foley, June Hayes, Maura Hennessy,
Tom Hennessy, Tony Hennessy, Sean Hogan, Barry Howell, Harry Hussey, Fons Jasper, Aidan Kelly, Caroline Kelly, Eugene Kelly,
Noel Kelly, Thomas Kennedy, Noel Linehan, Brian Lynch, Brian Madden, Andrew Malcolm, Jamie Malone, Mike Maunsell, Declan McGrath,
Niall Mugan, Rick Mundy, Barry Murphy, Edward Murphy, Joe Murphy, Tom Murphy, Stan Nugent, Michael O'Keeffe, Caoimhe O'Brien-Moran,
Tadhg O'Carroll, Fran O'Connell, Michael O'Meara (waterfordwildlife.com), Grace O'Sullivan, Anne Phelan, Eric Power, Jim Power, John Power,
Paul Power, David Price, Maura & Paul Proudfoot, Polly & David Radebaugh, Adrian Rooney, Tom Shevlin, Brian Simpson,
Pat Smiddy, Tommy Sullivan, Gareth Thomas, John Tierney, Mike Trewby, Ann Trimble, Paul Walsh, Michael Whealan, Brian White,
Brian Wickham. Many thanks, and apologies for any omissions - please keep the records & photos coming.
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