Maritime Cork: Counting the seabird decline off the Cork coastCan you imagine counting and identifying 2,972 seabirds? Or watching the courtship ritual of the “Tystie” on a remote cliff edge overlooking the sea in West Cork? They are just one species of seabirds suffering population decline, though their situation in Ireland is better than elsewhere in Europe. Darren Ellis of BirdWatch Ireland described to me his observation of the “Tystie” on the Beara Peninsula during the ‘National Black Guillemot Survey,’ part of the 4th National Seabird Census in Ireland coordinated by BirdWatch.  If you would like to get involved with seabird surveying and contribute to the National Seabird Census go to Volunteer Surveys on the BirdWatch Ireland website.

Source: Evening echo September 06, 2018 10:41 UTC