Irish Wetland Bird Survey Training Resources
If you love waterbirds – wildfowl, waders, gulls etc. – but want to learn more about them or do more to conserve them you’re in the right place. The Irish Wetland Bird Survey (I-WeBS) has been dedicated to monitoring our wintering waterbirds since 1994/95. A huge amount of ‘people power’ goes into this survey and it simply wouldn’t be possible without the hundreds of volunteers, NPWS staff and BirdWatch Ireland staff who take part year in year out. With all this experience under our belts we wanted to make it more accessible for people to find out about how to undertake such a survey and share some of the tips and tricks gathered over the years.
Below you will find a couple of quizzes to test your waterbird ID skills as well as courses to guide you through the methodology of I-WeBS and how to go about identifying and counting waterbirds.
These resources have been brought to you as part of the workshop series, hosted online in 2021, which were kindly funded by the EPA event support scheme.