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The avifauna of Ireland included a total of 522 species as of the end of 2019 according to the Irish Rare Birds Committee (IRBC). [1] Of them, 183 are rare, and 14 of the rarities have not been seen in Ireland since 1950. Three species were either introduced to Ireland or came to Ireland from another introduced population.
Finches are seed-eating passerine birds, that are small to moderately large and have a strong beak, usually conical and in some species very large. All have twelve tail feathers and nine primaries. These birds have a bouncing flight with alternating bouts of flapping and gliding on closed wings, and most sing well. Common chaffinch, Fringilla ...
One of every five Irish bird species assessed in the survey was threatened with extinction. [15] Lapwing numbers, according to Birdwatch Ireland, were down 67% in twenty years. [16] It also said there had been an "almost complete extermination" of farmland birds, for example the corncrake. [13]
This is a list of the bird species recorded in Northern Ireland. The avifauna of Northern Ireland include a total of 371 species, of which 10 have been introduced by humans. This list's taxonomic treatment (designation and sequence of orders, families and species) and nomenclature (English and scientific names) are those of the International ...
Irish Birds is the annual journal of BirdWatch Ireland. Its first issue was published in 1977, superseding the Irish Bird Report , which had been published from 1953 (number 1) to 1975 (number 23). Irish Birds publishes papers and notes on all aspects of birds in Ireland, as well as incorporating the annual Irish Bird Report and Irish Ringing ...
Killian Mullarney is an Irish ornithologist, bird artist [1] and bird tour leader. [2] He designed a series of Irish definitive stamps for An Post illustrating Irish birds [3] issued between 1997 and 2004. He was born in Dublin in 1958, [4] and educated at home for a few years by his mother, Máire Mullarney. He showed an interest in birds from ...
Edward Saunders, 1896 The Hymenoptera Aculeata of the British Islands : a descriptive account of the families, genera, and species indigenous to Great Britain and Ireland, with notes as to habits, localities, habitats London :L. Reeve & Co. online includes coloured plates. Very useful descriptions out of date nomenclature but see plates on ...
Pages in category "Important Bird Areas of the Republic of Ireland" The following 36 pages are in this category, out of 36 total.