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

• Late Nesting Bird Survey
• 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

• Barn Owls
• Baseline Waterbird Monitoring of Coastal Special Protection Areas 
• Breeding Wader Management
• Corncrakes
• Dublin Bay Birds Project (since 2013) new 
• Greylag Goose marking project (since 2012) new
• Little Terns at Kilcoole
• Roseate Terns at Rockabill 
• Cape Clear Bird Observatory
   

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