Hen Harrier, Curlew & Corncrake The Focus of Biodiversity Crisis Webinar

2nd February 2021

Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology researcher Ryan Wilson-Parr will speak about the Hen Harrier (above) Project Credit: courtesy Birdwatch Ireland

Once far more familiar in coastal areas, three of Ireland’s most endangered birds are the subject of a webinar hosted today by the Irish Wildlife Trust (IWT).

The threats posed to and monitoring projects on the curlew, the corncrake and the hen harrier will be discussed at the “Birds on the Edge” event by experts in these fields.

Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology researcher Ryan Wilson-Parr will speak about the Hen Harrier Project, while Kathryn Finney of BirdWatch Ireland and John Carey of the recently-launched Corncrake LIFE project will talk about the curlew and corncrake populations.

The event is part of a series of webinars which the IWT is running on solutions to the biodiversity crisis in Ireland.

Sightings of the birds are monitored by various surveys and on the online recording portal Birdtrack, which Birdwatch Ireland participates in along with the British Ornithology Trust and other partners.

Details of Birdtrack are here

Registration for the webinar, which is free and takes place today, February 1st, at 7 pm, is here

And more details on IWT webinars here

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Lorna Siggins

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Lorna Siggins is a print and radio reporter, and a former Irish Times western correspondent. She is the author of Search and Rescue: True stories of Irish Air-Sea Rescues and the Loss of R116 (2022); Everest Callling (1994) on the first Irish Everest expedition; Mayday! Mayday! (2004); and Once Upon a Time in the West: the Corrib gas controversy (2010). She is also co-producer with Sarah Blake of the Doc on One "Miracle in Galway Bay" which recently won a Celtic Media Award

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