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Migrants

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 Sand Martin  18th March, Tuam (Jim Glennon)
 House Martin  
 Swallow  30th March, Headford (Cathy Cooper)
 Swift  
 Common Sandpiper  1st May, Lough Inch, Bearna (Brendan Power)
 Manx Shearwater  
 Whimbrel  15th April, Luimnagh West, Lough Corrib (Deirdre Comerford)
 Marsh Harrier  
 Osprey  
 Common Tern  
 Arctic Tern  
 Little Tern  19th April, Silver Strand, Galway City (Tom Cuffe)
 Black Tern  
 Roseate Tern  
 Arctic Skua  
 Pomarine Skua  
 Great Skua  
 Willow Warbler  7th April, Mount Ross, Headford (Neil Sharkey)
 Sedge Warbler  24th April, Dangan, Galway City (John Carey & Tom Chadwick)
 Whitethroat  
 Grasshopper Warbler  23rd April, Cappagh, Galway City (Lionel Pilkington)
 Garden Warbler  
 White Wagtail  20th April, Mutton Island causeway, Galway City (Tom Cuffe).
 Corncrake  
 Spotted Crake  
 Quail  
 Cuckoo   14th April, Bushypark, Galway City (Anne Murphy)
 Turtle Dove  
 Nightjar  
 Wheatear  17th March, Nr. Cleggan (Paul Troake)
 Ring Ouzel  
 Spotted Flycatcher  
 Pied Flycatcher  
 Garganey  

If you are interested in the pattern of bird migration in Ireland and Britain you may like to visit the BTO/BirdWatch Ireland Migration Site.

Phenology is the study of the dates of recurring natural phenomena such as the arrival and departure dates of migratory birds and the dates of bud break and flowering of plants and trees. It is thought that this type of study may be of particular relevance to Global Warming and other climatic phenomena.

The Irish Native Woodland Trust web site has a page via which you can contribute to this study.

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