Ireland

EBCC National Delegates for Ireland

Brian Caffrey; e-mail: bcaffrey@birdwatchireland.ie

Lesley Lewis; e-mail: ljlewis@birdwatchireland.ie

Bird monitoring

Visit https://pecbms.info/country/ireland/

Atlas work

Latest atlas

Balmer, D.E., Gillings, S., Caffrey, B.J., Swann, R.L., Downie, I.S. & Fuller, R.J. (eds) (2013) Bird Atlas 2007–11: the breeding and wintering birds of Britain and Ireland. BTO Books, Thetford.

Census period: 2007–2011

Methods: Comprehensive species lists and breeding criteria in 10x10 squares to produce distribution maps and timed counts in sample of tetrads (2x2 km squares ) in a 10-km square to produce broad patterns of relative abundance.

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Previous atlases

Gibbons, D.W., Reid, J.B. & Chapman, R.A. 1993. The New Atlas of Breeding Birds in Britain and Ireland: 1988–1991. T. & A.D. Poyser, London.

Lack, P.C. 1986. The Atlas of Wintering Birds in Britain and Ireland. T. & A.D. Poyser, Calton.

Sharrock, J.T.R. 1976. The Atlas of Breeding Birds in Britain and Ireland. T. & A.D. Poyser, Berkhamsted.

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