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| Turtle Dove © Tess O'Brien |
5 SPOONBILLS, Dungarvan, LITTLE AUK, Dungarvan, 6 White-fronted Geese, Blackwater Callows, 28 November
2015. RED-BREASTED FLYCATCHER,
Tramore Brownstown Head, 31 October - 15 November.
2014 species list
Latest updates:
- Recent reports to 2 December 2015 (August-November backlog in preparation).
- 2014 species list: 187 species (187 2013, 197 2012, 203 2011, 194 2010, 185 2009)
- Video footage - latest addition BONAPARTE'S GULL 2 November, HOOPOE 16 September, Yellow Wagtail 13 September, Pectoral Sandpiper 23 August.
Website policy on rare breeding or other vulnerable species:
Click here for details.
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| Guide to bird sites in Waterford |
Where to Watch ... Waterford Coast
For a copy of this article, published in the autumn 2008 issue of BirdWatch
Ireland's Wings magazine, click below:
wheretowatch
Find a grid reference: See www.gridreference.ie/, zoom & click location on map - useful when reporting sightings.
Online OSi map resource: Click osi to zoom in on Ordnance Survey maps and satellite images for Ireland.
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Finding Birds in Ireland (2nd
edn): The updated & expanded second edition of this very useful guide
by Eric Dempsey and Michael O'Clery provides details of birding opportunities at almost 550 locations throughout Ireland,
including 21 Co Waterford sites. €19.99 from most bookshops, or currently €15.99 plus postage from the
publishers, Gill & Macmillan.
Waterfordbirds on Twitter:
A Twitter news service (waterfordbirds @watbirds) is now available for rapid circulation
of bird news highlights for the county - sign up here to follow. See also @BrownstownBirds for Brownstown Head sightings.
Recently published:
or
in local shops (€20)
BirdTrack App:
For details of the free BirdTrack app for Android & iPhone, click here - upload records from the field, including GPS coordinates. All records are available to local/county bird recorders if you
select that option when registering for BirdTrack (please do!). See also the new BirdTrack home-page.
WATERFORD
BIRD ATLAS: Fieldwork for the national Bird Atlas 2007-11 project is now completed,
but the Waterford Atlas (planned for publication in 2014) will also include records up to July 2013.
Waterford records (preferably for 2-km tetrads or with an OS grid-reference) can be entered for those seasons via the
BirdTrack website, or submitted to atlas @ waterfordbirds.com. Other records submitted to waterfordbirds
will also be used.
Target species for the Breeding
Atlas: Records of all
breeding or summering species are important, but some scarcer or easily-overlooked species are a particular priority
in the last season of Waterford coverage (click for preliminary maps), including:
Bird
records - general request for sightings: The website compilers are always interested in sightings
- not just of scarcer migrant or winter visitors, but also counts or confirmed breeding records of commoner species.
Of particular value are sightings of uncommon residents like Barn Owl (precise breeding locations of sensitive species
will not be published online or elsewhere). In addition to any records included on the website, all records will
be added to a larger database of Waterford sightings, to help with ongoing assessment of local bird status (see What to report?). Please email any sightings (recent or from any year), or digital
photos, to the website compilers. We
would also encourage you to sign up and contribute records to the online BirdTrack recording scheme covering Ireland and Britain.
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