SUMMER MIGRANTS IN COUNTY GALWAY 2018

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2018 Migrants

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Sand Martin	19th March, Waterside, Galway city (Tom Cuffe).
House Martin	10th April, Rahasane turlough (Paul Troake).
Swallow	5th April, Fallagh & Loughrea (Sean Walsh & Tom Murtagh).
Swift	29th April, Coolanillaun, Lough Corrib (Aonghus O'Donaill).
Common Sandpiper	23rd April, Lough Invernagleragh, Rosmuc (Dermot Breen).
Manx Shearwater	7th March, Galway Bay (Niall Keogh).
Whimbrel	17th April, Oranmore (Paul Troake).
Marsh Harrier	27th May, Angliham, Lough Corrib (Paidi Cullinan).
Osprey
Hobby	26th May, Cleggan Head (Dermot Breen).
Common Tern	19th April, Mutton Island, Galway city (Niall Keogh).
Arctic Tern	17th April, Lough Atalia, Galway city (Niall Keogh).
Little Tern	4th May, Trawmore, Inishmore (Dermot Breen).
Black Tern
Roseate Tern
Arctic Skua	19th April, Lettermullan (Sean McCann).
Pomarine Skua	3rd May, Silver Strand, Galway city (Niall Keogh).
Great Skua	19th April, Tawin (Paul Troake).
Long-tailed Skua	22nd April, Aughrusbeg, Cleggan (Brendan O'Connor).
Willow Warbler	6th April, Lough Atalia, Galway city & Ballindereen (Niall Keogh & Paul Troake).
Wood Warbler
Sedge Warbler	22nd April, Rahasane turlough (Paidi Cullinan).
Whitethroat	23rd April, Rusheen Bay, Galway city (Sean Walsh).
Lesser Whitethroat
Grasshopper Warbler	29th April, Dunsandle Wood, Kiltullagh, Athenry (Tom Murtagh).
Garden Warbler
White Wagtail	7th April, Mutton Island, Galway city (Niall Keogh).
Corncrake	25th April, Fawnmore, Inishbofin (Veronica Cunnane).
Spotted Crake
Quail
Cuckoo	18th April, Moycullen (Pádraig Keirns).
Turtle Dove	9th May, Inishmore (Ronan Mac Giollapharic).
Nightjar
Wheatear	18th March, Ballyconneely (Mike Badley).
Whinchat	6th June, Inishbofin (Geoffrey & Evelyn Hooton)
Ring Ouzel
Spotted Flycatcher	14th May, Rosturra Wood (Tom Murtagh).
Pied Flycatcher
Garganey	7th May, Rahasane turlough (Paul Troake).

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