File 5 - Birds

1 folder (c. 100 pp)

Letter from Richard Nairn, director of the Irish Wildbird Conservancy discusses tern colonies in Connemara, a survey of breeding birds of machair habitats in Western Ireland with a list of sites for Robinson to review. Photocopied article by Michael Viney 'On the Machair', (1984). Correspondence on machair in placenames - muirbheach, and whether that indicates further sites. Photocopied article 'Breeding waders of sand dune machair in north-west Ireland', R G W Nairn and J R Sheppard, Irish Birds 1985 (1984-1985);

Photocopy of Tim Robinson's article in IWC News (November 1984) 'Birds in Irish Placenames';

Corrib Conservation Centre, Third Annual Report (1984);

Photocopied article from Irish Birds, Vol 2 No 4, 'Survey of Heronries in Connemara, 1974-1977' by J K Partridge;

Offprint of 'The 1984 All Ireland Tern Survey' by A Whilde (Irish Birds 3:1-32 (1985);

Publication from Corrib Conservation Centre 'Corrib Country Ecotour' by Tony While, illustrations by Pádraic Reaney (1985);

Letter to Tim from Paul [Haworth] enclosing a copy of his report to the World Wildlife Fund: 'A Survey of Upland Breeding Birds in West Galway, Eire: Report to the World Wildlife Fund Project 147/84' (1985);

Typed list, undated '100 Birds that can be seen within easy reach of Moycullen and Oughterard'.

Selected photocopies from 'The Natural History of Ireland' Vol 1 Birds by William Thompson (1849);

Newspaper cuttings from Irish Press, Irish Times, (c. 1986-9), all on birds and ornithology;

Two blank 'Species Record Card' from the Corrib Conservation Centre.

Postcard to Tim from [Tony Whilde] noting a sighting of Spoonhill at Carna (1990);

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