FIRECREST TOURS : Guided Birdwatching & Wildlife Days

BirdWatch Ireland has warmly welcomed the recent announcement by Minister for Agriculture, Marine and Food Simon Coveney that farmers undertaking actions to conserve critically-threatened farmland birds will get priority access to substantial funding within Ireland's new Rural Development Programme. If properly implemented, this offers hope of halting declines and restoring bird populations in parts of their range. Ireland's biodiversity is facing very severe threats, as evidenced by declining populations of many farmland birds and losses in extent and quality of many semi-natural habitats in the mosaic of Ireland's farmed landscapes. There has been extensive research in the UK, in particular, which has related farmland bird declines to changes in agricultural practices since the 1970s. Specific causes for these changes included a variety of farming practices, including increased use of pesticides and fertilisers, increased mechanisation and losses of hedgerow extent an...

Bird Song & Call Identification : Listen to & identify bird songs, calls & sounds. Birds of Britain, Ireland & Europe :  Gamebirds  (Galliformes)  - Grouse, Partridges, Quails & Pheasants California Quail   Callipepla californica Hazel Grouse   Tetrastes bonasia Western Capercaillie   Tetrao urogallus Black Grouse   Lyrurus tetrix Caucasian Grouse   Lyrurus mlokosiewiczi Rock Ptarmigan   Lagopus muta Willow Ptarmigan   Lagopus lagopus Caspian Snowcock   Tetraogallus caspius Chukar Partridge   Alectoris chukar Barbary Partridge   Alectoris barbara Red-legged Partridge   Alectoris rufa See-see Partridge   Ammoperdix griseogularis Black Francolin   Francolinus francolinus Grey Partridge   Perdix perdix Daurian Partridge   Perdix dauurica Common Quail   Coturnix coturnix Reeves's Pheasant   Syrmaticus reevesii Common Pheasant   Phasianus colc...