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BirdWatch Ireland is engaged in many projects concerning habitat preservation, ornithological surveys and research and education. Information on these projects can be found on the BirdWatch Ireland website at www.birdwatchireland.ie/ and in the BWI quarterly magazine "Wings".
The Atlas Challenge - Answer the Call
The Bird Atlas 2007-2011 is a joint project to map all of Ireland and Britain’s birds during both the winter and the breeding season. It is a working partnership between BirdWatch Ireland, the British Trust for Ornithology and the Scottish Ornithologists' Club. It will allow us to assess changes in bird distributions since previous breeding atlases in 1970 and 1990, and since the last winter atlas of the early 1980s. Atlases have been immensely important for furthering bird knowledge and conservation and Bird Atlas 2007-2011 is destined to set the agenda for the next decades of ornithological work in Ireland and Britain.
Fieldwork will span four winters and four breeding seasons, starting on 1 November 2007, during which we will cumulatively survey the whole of Ireland. To fulfil these objectives there are two complementary fieldwork methods which offer something for everyone - Roving Records and Timed Tetrad Visits.
To make the Bird Atlas a huge success and to achieve the necessary coverage in your county we need your help. So why not be one of 50,000 birdwatchers across Ireland and Britain helping to produce the biggest and best Bird Atlas ever. For further information or to get involved please contact Brian Caffrey at the BirdWatch Ireland Midlands Office or follow the link to find out more:
www.birdatlas.netAppeal for Bird Atlas Records
from Brian Caffrey to all Branches (1st September, 2009)
Many thanks to all of you who have sent in your Bird Atlas records, either online or in the post. I am now appealing for all outstanding bird records (both Roving Records and Timed Tetrad Visits) to be submitted as soon as possible. We have now reached the mid-point of the Atlas project and it is therefore essential that we receive this data so we can accurately gauge where we stand in relation to our targets and plan for the second half of the project. So please root out that old note book and get your records in to us. Whether your records are from this breeding season just past, last winter or even the first year of the survey, they are all equally valuable and urgently needed.
Even if you don’t have any entries in your notebooks, but perhaps had a Spotted Flycatcher nesting in your garden, a Swallow in your garden shed or perhaps found a Dipper nesting under your local bridge this summer, now is the time to get these records in to us. All records can be submitted directly to the Bird Atlas website www.birdatlas.net. Alternatively, they can be sent in on paper forms to the address below. Forms are available here
Brian Caffrey
BWI Midlands Office
Crank House
Banagher
Co. Offaly
(05791) 51676
bcaffrey@birdwatchireland.ie