Call for submission of photographs for consideration for the Atlas of Mammals in Ireland: 2010 – 2015
The National Biodiversity Data Centre and the National Parks and Wildlife Service have commenced preparations for the publication of Ireland’s first ever Atlas of Mammals in Ireland: 2010 – 2015 which is due for publication in November 2016.
The Atlas will provide distribution maps of all 69 terrestrial and marine wild mammals that have been recorded in Ireland and its marine waters. More than 40 national experts have been invited to author species accounts for the Atlas. To complement this information, the Data Centre is looking to obtain good quality photographs to accompany the species accounts. As there are so many of you who already submit high quality wildlife photographs to us we’d like to offer you the opportunity to have one of your photographs selected for the atlas. The Data Centre will provide a free Atlas to any person whose photographs are used in the publication.
Images should be submitted as medium resolution JPEG/JPG files and emailed to info@biodiversityireland.ie before 1st May, 2016. HIgher resolution photographs may be requested at a later date.
The Atlas will feature accounts for each of the following species.
| Pygmy Shrew (Sorex minutus) |
| Hedgehog (Erinaceus europaeus) |
| Greater white-toothed shrew (Crocidura russula) |
| Badger (Meles meles) |
| Feral ferret (Mustela furo) |
| Red fox (Vulpes vulpes) |
| Pine marten (Martes martes) |
| Otter (Lutra lutra) |
| American mink (Neovison vison) – |
| Grey Wolf (Canis lupus |
| Stoat (Mustela erminea) |
| Nathusius’ Pipistrelle (Pipistrellus nathusii |
| Natterer’s bat (Myotis nattereri) |
| Brandt’s bat (Myotis brandtii) – |
| Lesser Horseshoe bat (Rhinolophus hipposideros) |
| Leisler’s bat (Nyctalus leisleri) |
| Whiskered bat (Myotis mystacinus) |
| Common pipistrelle (Pipistrellus pipistrellus) |
| Soprano pipistrelle (Pipistrellus pygmaeus) |
| Daubenton’s bat (Myotis daubentoni) |
| Brown long-eared bat (Plecotus auritus) |
| Wild boar/Feral pig (Sus scrofa) |
| Red deer (Cervus elaphus) |
| Sika deer (Cervus nippon) |
| Fallow deer (Dama dama) |
| Feral goat (Capra hircus) |
| Muntjac deer (Muntiacus reevesi) |
| Red Squirrel (Sciurus vulgaris) |
| Grey Squirrel (Sciurus carolinesis) |
| Muskrat (Ondatra zibethicus) |
| Brown Rat (Rattus norvegicus) |
| Wood mouse (Apodemus sylvaticus) |
| House mouse (Mus musculus) |
| Ship rat/Black rat (Rattus rattus) |
| Bank vole (Myodes glareolus) |
| Hazel dormouse (Muscardinus avellansrius) |
| Beluga whale (Delphinapterus leucas) |
| Common dolphin (Delphinus delphis) |
| Long-finned pilot whale (Globicephala melas) |
| Risso’s dolphin (Grampus griseus) |
| Atlantic white-sided dolphin (Lagenorhynchus acutus) |
| White-beaked dolphin (Lagenorhynchus albirostris) |
| Killer whale (Orcinus orca) |
| False killer whale (Pseudorca crassidens) |
| Striped dolphin (Stenella coeruleoalba) |
| Bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus (tursio)) |
| Harbour porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) |
| Pygmy sperm whale (Kogia breviceps) |
| Sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus) |
| Northern bottlenose whale (Hyperoodon rostratus (ampullatus)) |
| Sowerby’s beaked whale (Mesoplodon bidens) |
| Gervais’ beaked whale (Mesoplodon europaeus) |
| True’s beaked whale (Mesoplodon mirus) |
| Cuvier’s beaked whale (Ziphius cavirostris) |
| Minke whale (Balaenoptera acutorostrata) |
| Sei whale (Balaenoptera borealis) |
| Fin whale (Balaenoptera physalus) |
| Humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae (longimana, nodosa)) |
| Blue whale (Sibbaldus (Balaenoptera) musculus) |
| Northern right whale (Eubalaena glacialis) |
| Red-necked wallaby (Macropus rufogriseus) |
| Rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus) |
| Irish hare (Lepus timidus) |
| Brown hare (Lepus europaeus) |
| Grey Seal (Halichoerus grypus) |
| Walrus (Odobenus rosmarus) |
| Harbour seal (Phoca vitulina) |
| Bearded seal (Erignathus barbatus) |
Terms and conditions
Photographers will retain the full copyright of their photographs which will only be used for the hard copy Atlas of Mammals in Ireland publication.
Photographers whose images are selected will licence the National Biodiversity Data Centre to use the photographs in the Atlas of Mammals in Ireland publication.
Photographs reproduced in the Atlas publication will be credited to the photographers.