BirdWatch Ireland
@BirdWatchIE
Ireland's largest conservation charity dedicated to protecting birds and biodiversity.
Announcing the new BirdWatch Ireland "Birds of Ireland" field guide app! It's a comprehensive identification guide to all of the 492 bird species ever recorded in Ireland. Android version: play.google.com/store/apps/det… Apple iOS version: apps.apple.com/ie/app/birds-o…
BARN OWL REVIVAL! PJs talking to Donncha and @BirdWatchIE @alanmc_23 about how you can help!
Great to see #swifts have started using the #swiftnestboxes put up by @BirdWatchIE on behalf @louthcoco last year. Four pairs using the tower of which at least two are in the boxes at Tallanstown NS County Louth @Swiftconserv @Tallanstown @louthbiod
So lovely to hear a Willow Warbler out our back garden this morning. Whilst they're one of Irelands most common summer visitors, they're a very rare visitor to our garden in the suburbs of Limerick. Here's a photo of one from our @BirdWatchIE outing to Doon last April 💚
BirdWatch Ireland's In Your Nature podcast is back for a new season! This week we chat to Owen Murphy, Senior Project Manager with @BreedingWaders, about the fight to save some of Ireland’s most threatened ground-nesting birds. buzzsprout.com/1701709/episod…
Looking forward to this event on Wednesday evening following great collaboration with @BirdWatchIE Cavan Branch as part of the West Cavan Swift Survey LBAF project via NPWS. We will be walking round some notable sites for the iconic summer visitor in the town. All welcome :) 🐦⬛
Cavan Swift Summer Stroll - A Walk on The Special Summer Migrating Bird🪺 For any local enthusiasts and beyond of the wonderful bird, we are having a Swift Summer Stroll next Wednesday at 7pm meeting at the Johnston Central Library and touring some notable sites around the (1/2)
Mayo Barn Owls- 19 Jul 25 - Chicks flying and ready to leave in search of their own territory. Footage by M. Casey. @BirdsMatter_ie @BirdWatchIE @BirdwatchMayo youtube.com/watch?v=fej94w…
🎧 Want to catch up on all things Breeding Waders EIP? We’ve got not one, but two opportunities for you this week! 🦉 In Your Nature – Our Senior Project Manager Owen Murphy joins Ricky Whelan to chat about on-the-ground conservation work. A perfect listen for your next drive!…
Invasive Spotlight Species #18: Rose-ringed parakeet Parakeets outcompete native birds for food and nesting sites, especially at feeders and cavity nests. Submit your sighting 👉shorturl.at/AiF0S Species Profile 📷 shorturl.at/AqD3q #ReportInvasives
Join the Cavan BirdWatch Ireland branch for a Swift Walk in Cavan town led by the fantastic @BirdWatchIE Swift Surveyor, Helen Taylor, this Wednesday July 23rd @ 7pm starting at Johnston Central Library. All welcome.🙏 Thanks to @cavancoco for supporting this work! 🙌
A rather quiet Clogheen CES 8 with virtually no bird song. Felt rather like some adult birds have already left! Still managed to catch 49 birds. Highlights were two very contrasting male Swallow, 3 juvenile Bullfinch, a Mallard and a Water Rail @NPWSIreland @_BTO @BirdWatchIE
Watch as one of the Arctic tern chicks nesting in @DublinPortCo tries to take its first flight this morning! In just a couple of months this bird will leave the port on its way down to Antarctica #mybiosphere @dublinbiosphere
Nice to find Co. Longford's first Greenshank at Corlea Bog today. ebird.org/checklist/S257… @BirdWatchIE @MidShannon #BirdsSeenIn2025 #BirdsOfTwitter #birding #TwitterNatureCommunity
A Puffin sees another seabird in St. Stephen's Green. We at @BirdWatchIE had a very successful launch of our Important Bird and Biodiversity Areas for seabirds in Ireland today. Our human sized Puffin won the hearts of adults and kids. @BirdLife_News @BirdLifeEurope