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2024 Migrants

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

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 Sand Martin  18th March, Rahasane turlough (Paul Troake)
 House Martin  11th April, Kinvara (Paul Troake)
 Swallow  29th March, Tooreen, Nr. Ballindereen (Paul Troake)
 Swift  30th April, Lydacan (David McNicholas)
 Common Sandpiper  
 Manx Shearwater  18th March, Sliver Strand, Galway city (Aonghus O'Donaill)
 Whimbrel  18th April, Ballyconneely (Dermot Breen)
 Marsh Harrier  
 Osprey  17th May, Nr. Friar's Island, Lough Corrib (Padraig Keirns)
 Hobby  
 Common Tern  7th April, Mweeloon (Sean Holland)
 Arctic Tern  13th April, Tawin (Sean Holland)
 Little Tern  13th April, Inishmore (per. Dermot Breen)
 Black Tern  
 Roseate Tern  
 Arctic Skua  7th April, Silver Strand, Galway city (Aonghus O'Donaill)
 Pomarine Skua  
 Great Skua  31st March, Renvyle Point (Niall Keogh)
 Long-tailed Skua  17th March, Maam Cross (Gerard Walshe)
 Willow Warbler  28th March, Tooreen, Nr. Ballindereen (Paul Troake)
 Wood Warbler  
 Sedge Warbler  7th April, Killaclogher Bog (Paidi Cullinan)
 Whitethroat  30th April, Renville (Sean Holland)
 Lesser Whitethroat  
 Grasshopper Warbler  16th April, Renville West (Sean Holland)
 Garden Warbler  
 White Wagtail  17th April, Ballyconneely Bay (Dermot Breen)
 Yellow Wagtail  
 Corncrake  18th May, Inishbofin (Fearghas Mac Lochlainn)
 Spotted Crake  
 Quail  
 Cuckoo  17th April, Ballyconneely (Martin O'Malley)
 Turtle Dove  
 Nightjar  
 Wheatear  19th March, Tawin & Aillebrack, Ballyconneely (Paul Troake & Dermot Breen)
 Whinchat  
 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 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.

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