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• Breeding Bird Survey celebrates 30 years of citizen science in Northern Ireland
• Declining seabirds on a cliff edge

• Belfast’s unsung seabird
• Sharing our gull tracking expertise
• Introducing Ripple NI: BTO's community-based engagement project
• Finding the wild side in Northern Ireland
• What's the score for Copeland's symphony of seabirds?

Northern Ireland Seabird Reports - all years

2023

• Analysis of wintering waterbird population trends for the Lough Neagh and Lough Beg Special Protection Area (SPA)
• Analysis of waterbird population trends for Northern Ireland’s sea loughs: assessing the potential impacts of aquaculture and disturbance: Part 2 – Belfast Lough and Lough Foyle
• Analysis of waterbird population trends for Northern Ireland’s sea loughs: assessing the potential impacts of aquaculture and disturbance. Part 3 – Larne Lough, Killough Harbour and Dundrum Inner Bay
• Bioacoustics as a novel approach for detecting the presence of Brown Rats on seabird islands
• BirdTrends 2022

2022

• Loss of breeding waders from key lowland grassland sites in Northern Ireland

2021

• Belfast’s urban gulls: an assessment of breeding populations, breeding season movements and winter population
• Northern Ireland Seabird Report 2020
• Wader populations on the UK’s open coast: results of the 2015/16 Non-Estuarine Waterbird Survey (NEWS-III) and a review of population trends
• BirdTrends 2020
• Northern Ireland Lowland Breeding Wader Survey

2020

• The State of the UK's Birds 2020
• Audit of local studies of breeding Curlew and other waders in Britain and Ireland

2019

• Associations between gamebird releases and general predators
• Analysis of waterbird population trends for Northern Ireland’s sea loughs: assessing the potential impacts of aquaculture and disturbance. Part 1 – Strangford Lough and Carlingford Lough

2018

• When is enough enough? Effective sampling protocols for estimating the survival rates of seabirds with mark-recapture techniques
• The breeding population of Peregrine Falcon Falco peregrinus in the United Kingdom, Isle of Man and Channel Islands in 2014

2013

• The importance of the United Kingdom for wintering gulls: population estimates and conservation requirements

2010 and earlier

• An examination of reptile and amphibian populations in gardens, the factors influencing garden use and the role of a 'Citizen Science' approach for monitoring their populations within this habitat
• Indexing winter gull numbers in Great Britain using data from the 1953 to 2004 Winter Gull Roost Surveys
• Population decline of Leach's Storm-petrel Oceanodroma leucorhoa within the largest colony in Britain and Ireland
• Migration patterns and sex ratios of diving ducks wintering in Northern Ireland with specific reference to Lough Neagh