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Ireland’s BioBlitz 2012 18/19th May

Mothman · 2012-05-12 04:30:37

Meant to start this thread earlier. Ireland’s BioBlitz 2012 Next weekend! 18/19th May Four sites will be competing in Ireland’s BioBlitz 2012: * * Crawfordsburn Country Park, Co Down * Glengarriff National Nature Reserve, Co. Cork * Lough Boora Parklands, Co. Offaly * Phoenix Park, Dublin 8 Programme of events The odds! :D…

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12-05-2012 5:30am

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Meant to start this thread earlier.
Ireland’s BioBlitz 2012
Next weekend! 18/19th May

Four sites will be competing in Ireland’s BioBlitz 2012:

Crawfordsburn Country Park, Co Down

Glengarriff National Nature Reserve, Co. Cork

Lough Boora Parklands, Co. Offaly

Phoenix Park, Dublin 8

This year’s BioBlitz is now a cross-border event with the participation of CEDaR in Northern Ireland.
Ireland’s BioBlitz 2012 is run in collaboration with CEDaR, Northern Ireland (Centre for Environmental Data and Recording) http://www.nmni.com/cedar; Bord na Móna http://www.bordnamona.ie/; OPW (Office of Public Works) http://www.opw.ie/en/ and the Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht (NPWS) http://www.npws.ie/. The event is also supported by Dublin Zoo, Dublin City Council and National Botanic Gardens.
The event will commence at 17.00 hrs on 18 May 2012 and finish at 17.00 hrs on 19 May 2012. If you are interested in finding out more about Ireland’s natural heritage or would like to join one of the participating teams, please contact the National Biodiversity Data Centre for further details:

Programme of events
The odds!

See 2011 thread & 2010 thread

I'll be attending Phoenix Park with moth traps running over night. Unfortunately the weather for next week seems to be continuing as it is, which will make for poor returns in the moth traps.

There will be a scheduled "opening of traps" at 8am near the visitors centre.

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#2 15-05-2012 11:00pm
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whyulittle wrote: »

http://bioblitz.biodiversityireland.ie/

I assume this event is open to people not participating? I would like to go and listen/watch; will there be other people doing that or will I just be left alone while the teams compete?!

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#3 15-05-2012 11:05pm
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Definitely go along Meller. The event is open to everyone. If you want to record species you will need to register at the base camp. There will also be various events organised for the public at the different locations so it might be good to go along to one of those where you can learn about recording wildlife i.e. different techniques for recording different creatures!

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#4 15-05-2012 11:15pm
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There is a full list of events taking places at Boora over the two days on their website.

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#5 18-05-2012 10:35am
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Best of luck to everyone involved No locations near me this year so not sure who to shout for...:p

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#6 21-05-2012 3:58pm
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I hear Glengarriff were the winners with 1020 species.I wonder is there a list somewhere of what they got in each area?

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#7 21-05-2012 5:40pm
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I was at Lough Boora Parklands for the Dawn Chorus, a great morning, the highlight for me was the fly-over by a Woodcock, just brilliant. I didn't see or hear the Long Eared Owls but they were spotted by another group, lucky them.

One of the guys togged out for the aqua search, brave man in that weather..

The weather was terrible so the moth traps were pretty lean...

Lough Boora Parklands 3rd with 940 speces....

http://www.facebook.com/LoughBooraParklands

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#8 22-05-2012 1:40am
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thebishop wrote: »

I hear Glengarriff were the winners with 1020 species.I wonder is there a list somewhere of what they got in each area?

Didn't they win it last year??

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#9 22-05-2012 8:24am
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Killarney won it last year. To date different locations have competed each year.

I don't think the full species list is available online.

There were some quality moths at Lough Boora. Hawk-moths, Buff-tip are always great public pleasers and a couple of scarcer species as well.

Only about one moth per trap in Phoenix park. It was cold and wet and seeing the weather today...if only.....

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#10 22-05-2012 11:51am
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Mothman wrote: »

Only about one moth per trap in Phoenix park. It was cold and wet and seeing the weather today...if only.....

Allways the way:(

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#11 09-02-2013 10:06pm
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The species list for each of the sites is now available. Some interesting species listed for Boora to keep me hooked.

Phoenix Park, Dublin

Crawfordsburn Country Park, Co. Down

Lough Boora Parklands, Co. Offaly

Glengarriff Nature Reserve, Co. Cork

This year's participants are also known.

We're delighted to announce that the 4 main sites for BioBlitz 2013 have been finalised. Next year we'll see Wicklow Mountains National Park, Co. Wicklow; Lough Key Forest Pak, Co. Roscommon; Burren National Park, Co. Clare and Colebrooke Estate, Co. Fermanagh up against eachother.

https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=481357741907682&id=174128575963935

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#12 09-02-2013 11:11pm
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I've just noticed, the results have been changed.

Glengarriff who were crowned Champions have been demoted to 3rd, Boora up to 2nd and Crawfordsburn the new Champions.

Ouch to Glengarriff!

http://bioblitz.biodiversityireland.ie/

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