Martin Browne
Question:365. Deputy Martin Browne asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will make publicly available the information that the open season Order for 2023 was based on. [29230/23]
View answerTuesday, 20 June 2023
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With regard to Ireland’s wild bird populations including those listed on the Open Seasons Order, the National Parks and Wildlife Service of my Department is significantly involved in the collection of data leading to the estimation of population sizes, ranges and trends. This data, feeds into our regular reporting under Article 12 of the EU Birds Directivities (Directive 79/409/EEC), which allows for an assessment of whether the requisite measures have been taken to maintain the population of bird species referred to in Article 1 of that Directive. In addition to Ireland’s latest Article 12 Report covering the period 2013 – 2018, the following resources are relevant to those bird species on the Open Seasons Order:
The status of Red Grouse in Ireland and the effects of land use, habitat and habitat quality on their distribution. Irish Wildlife Manuals, No. 50. National Parks and Wildlife Service, Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, Dublin, Ireland.
Countryside Bird Survey: Status and trends of common and widespread breeding birds 1998-2016. Irish Wildlife Manuals, No. 115. National Parks and Wildlife Service, Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Ireland.
Irish Wetland Bird Survey: Waterbird Status and Distribution 2009/10-2015/16. Irish Wildlife Manuals, No. 106. National Parks and Wildlife Service, Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Ireland.
Irish Wetland Bird Survey (I-WeBS)
Bird Atlas 2007-11: the breeding and wintering birds of Britain and Ireland. Thetford: BTO; 2013.
The New Atlas of Breeding Birds in Britain and Ireland: 1988-1991. Author(s): Gibbons, D.W., Reid, J.B. & Chapman, R.A.. Published: January 1993 Burke B, Lewis LJ, Fitzgerald N, Frost T, Austin G, Tierney TD.
Estimates of waterbird numbers wintering in Ireland, 2011/12–2015/16. Irish Birds. 2018;11:1-2. Gilbert, Gillian, Andrew Stanbury, and Lesley Lewis.
Birds of conservation concern in Ireland 4: 2020–2026."Irish Birds 43 (2021): 1-22.
birdwatchireland.ie/app/uploads/2021/04/BOCCI-2020-2026.pdf