Research & Surveys
BirdWatch Ireland is involved in many research and monitoring projects. These include ongoing and long-term monitoring projects that aim to track how populations of Ireland's birds are faring over time.
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Volunteer surveys
Some surveys are annual and require additional help from volunteer members of the public
- Spring Alive
- Breeding Curlew 2018
- Swift Surveys
- Dublin City Urban Birds Project
- Countryside Bird Survey
- Seabird Monitoring Programme
- Irish Wetland Bird Survey
- BirdTrack
- Garden Bird Survey
- River Bird Survey 2017
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Other projects
Projects completed
Some of these are undertaken on a cyclical basis include:
- Bird Atlas, every 20 years, last between 2007 & 2011 recently completed
- Breeding Wader Machair Survey, last in 2008
- Breeding Wader Research, Shannon Callows
- Chough, every 10 years, last in 2002
- Clare Bird Atlas - analysis & development, 2011
- Common Scoter (breeding), last in 1996
- Farmland Bird Survey, 2006 - 2009
- Hen Harrier, every 5 years, last in 2010
- Irish Wildbird Conservancy Project - Ballyhoura, 2011
- Peregrines, every 10 years, last in 2002
- Red Grouse, 2006 - 2008
- Seabirds, every 15 years, last between 1998 and 2002
- Tern Survey, 1984 & 1995
- Upland Bird Survey, 2002 - 2004
- Waterways Bird Survey, 2006 - 2010