BirdWatch Ireland

The Irish Garden Bird Survey reveals changing patterns of different bird species in Ireland

Your notes and queries for Eanna Ní Lamhna

Former chief executive used conservation charity credit card to pay for wife’s car repairs

Concerns are growing that highly contagious disease is about to hit flocks of commercial captive birds. So how worried should the public be?

Expansion and intensification of agriculture putting pressure on 73 per cent of avian species, BirdLife International says

National Parks and Wildlife Service records 5% increase in the number of birds in 2022

Order allowing eggs or nests to be destroyed until next April in Balbriggan to reduce seagull attacks and noise

Your notes and queries for Eanna Ní Lamhna

Michael Viney: Our beautiful Aylesburys lined up outside the kitchen window every morning

Your notes and queries for Eanna Ní Lamhna

Éanna Ní Lamhna on the 2-spot ladybird, pine martens and the moth chrysalis

Covid-19 lockdown saw 71 per cent increase in annual garden bird survey participants

Michael Viney: Western and southern bays being plundered by ocean-going Irish trawlers

Regulator’s concerns understood to be at the lower end of the scale

‘We have a sort of plan in place to catch him’: Bird escapes from Fota Wildlife Park

An 20 éan is mó a fheictear i ngairdíní na hÉireann, le híomhánna, méid, cur síos agus ceol na n-éan

The 20 most spotted birds in Irish gardens, with images, sizes, descriptions and songs

Pair nesting in midlands bog may be key to revival of species

Dubliners can keep watch for this regal bird on shadier bits of the Liffey and Dodder

Ethna Viney on frosty beauty, alien harlequin ladybirds and a possible avian flu victim

Michael Viney: Toll of human traffic casualties is dismaying enough, but annual toll on wildlife is also extraordinary

Forget flowers and curate a selection of hardy plants

Despite being banned, the toxic root pesticide is clearly being used to target birds nationwide

Michael Viney: A new survey brings arresting confirmations of decline

American gardeners in Kerry: ‘When you make room for it, nature always finds you’

Michael Viney: North Atlantic’s top predator now shares island with 13 other species

A beefed-up, independent National Parks and Wildlife Service would be just the ticket

Avian science journal Ibis reports ‘great conservation concern’ about the species

Another Life: Some floaters circle territories and sneak the odd ‘extra-pair copulation’

Time to restore meadows once full of insects and nectar in summer and spires of seeds in winter

Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax (so good they named it twice) is one of the rarer birds of western Europe

Some argue that we feed birds, hedgehogs and other wild animals, so why not foxes?

The feeding of so many different species of birds has become ecologically important

The water meadows are exceptionally rich in birds and plants, but changes in climate and agricultural practices threaten landscape

Locals in Leitrim are trying to block the widespread planting of Sitka spruce trees

Birdwatch Ireland appeals for information from households for annual bird survey

BirdWatch Ireland says extension of burning periods may negatively impact some species

Analysis shows Government repeatedly went against scientific advice in EU quota talks

Another Life: Michael Viney on Richard Murphy’s Connemara life

You don’t need to spend lots of money or grow a beard to appreciate birds