Birds do it. Bees do it. Even educated fleas do it.

There are five species of tern here, while Rockabill Island represent 80% of the roseate tern’s European numbers. It’s a conservation success story, says Dan MacCarthy

One of the world’s rarest birds — once thought extinct for over 300 years — has been spotted off the Kerry coast.

You could call them real-life Rockabillies. Two people are set to bag dream summer jobs monitoring seabirds on a remote rocky outcrop off the Irish coast.

The iconic Irish swallow is on the decline due to the widening of the Sahara, soaking Irish summers, and human hunters, according to a leading bird expert.

A select group of farmers have enjoyed an €11m government bonanza through implementing measures aimed at conserving the protected hen harriers on their lands.

Waxwings, one of the most iconic Christmas birds, have flocked into Ireland in their greatest numbers for years.

A colony of young Irish seabirds has been wiped out after rats swam into the middle of Dublin Port, climbed wooden poles, and devoured them.

The nation’s favourite species of globe-trotting birds are disappearing, with numbers of swallows, swifts, and cuckoos all plummeting.

THERE’S good news on the bird front; little terns seem to have bred successfully this summer.

SWALLOWS are returning to Ireland earlier and earlier each year to nest, possibly because of increasing temperatures.

ROBINS, wrens and goldcrests are just some of the feathered friends that BirdWatch Ireland is asking households to keep an eye out for over the coming weeks.

THE mournful call of the curlew resonates with the Irish psyche, a reminder of ancient tragedies, the great famine or the emigrant ship.

The haunting cry of the curlew is known as the sound of the Irish countryside but the bird is now in danger of becoming extinct in Ireland.

BIRDWATCH Ireland needs your help; they want you to report any cuckoos, swallows or swifts which you see during the next few weeks. These three bird species are easy to identify, even without binoculars, so you don’t have to be a regular birdwatcher to do your bit.

The Government could face compensation claims from the poultry industry if the bird flu damages business here, Agriculture Minister Mary Coughlan said today.