SUMMER MIGRANTS IN COUNTY GALWAY 2025

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2025 Migrants

Can you fill in any of the gaps, or have you seen any of these birds on earlier dates than are shown?

Send in your dates for arriving migrants: chris.peppiatt@iol.ie

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Sand Martin	25th February, Cregg River, Cloonboo (Ian Brophy).
House Martin	5th April, Toureen, Nr. Ballinderreen (Paul Troake).
Swallow	27th March, Toureen, Nr. Ballinderreen (Paul Troake).
Swift	30th April, Oranmore; Newcastle, Galway city; Loughrea (Sean Holland; Jack Schaerer; Tom Murtagh).
Common Sandpiper
Manx Shearwater	12th April, Gregory's Sound, Galway Bay (Chris Gwiazada).
Whimbrel	6th March, over Doughishka, Galway city (David O'Keeffe).
Marsh Harrier
Osprey
Hobby
Common Tern	17th April, Lough Atalia, Galway city (Ian O'Connor).
Arctic Tern	20th April, Cleggan (Niall Keogh).
Little Tern	7th April, Dog's Bay, Roundstone (Dermot Breen).
Black Tern
Roseate Tern
Arctic Skua
Pomarine Skua
Great Skua
Long-tailed Skua
Willow Warbler	26th March, Cregballymore, Nr. Ballinderreen (Paul Troake).
Wood Warbler
Sedge Warbler	17th April, Nr. Claddaghdudff (DErmot Breen).
Whitethroat	15th April, Toureen, Nr. Ballinderreen (Paul Troake).
Lesser Whitethroat
Grasshopper Warbler	7th April, Slieve Aughies (Ray Glynn).
Garden Warbler
White Wagtail	25th March, Mutton Island, Galway city (Tom Cuffe).
Yellow Wagtail
Corncrake
Spotted Crake
Quail
Cuckoo	10th April, Slieve Aughties & Arderroo, west of Moycullen (Shane O'Neill & Jennifer Troake).
Turtle Dove	30th April, Middlequarter, Inishbofin (John Lovatt).
Nightjar
Wheatear	14th March, Ballyconneely Bay (Dermot Breen).
Whinchat	13th May, Clonfert (Sean Holland).
Ring Ouzel
Spotted Flycatcher
Pied Flycatcher	29th April, Inishbofin (John Lovatt).
Garganey	28th April, Westquarter lake, Inishbofin (John Lovatt).

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.