Niamh Phelan

nphelan@biodiversityireland.ie

Biodiversity Engagement Officer

has responsibility for the promotion and oversight of the National Biodiversity Data Centre’s engagement and outreach programme, developing training resources for our recording community and serves as the Data Centre’s Operations Manager. She also manages the All-Ireland Marsh Fritillary Monitoring Scheme in which 16 volunteers survey across 49 key sites for Marsh Fritillary.

Articles by Niamh Phelan

Farmers’ Wildlife Calendar 2022

04/01/2022

The Farmers’ Wildlife Calendar is an annual recording initiative by the National Biodiversity Data Centre that is supported by the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine. The aim of the Farmers’ Wildlife Calendar is to track the effects of weather and climate change on seasonal events such as frogs spawning and the arrival our read more

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Identification Guide to Ireland’s Bats now available

14/12/2021

Bat Conservation Ireland and the National Biodiversity Data Centre are delighted to announce the publication of an ‘Identification Guide to Ireland’s Bats’. For the first time ever, Ireland now has a field guidebook to Ireland’s Bats for its nine resident bat species and two vagrant bat species. read more

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Great Spotted Woodpecker continues its remarkable spread in Ireland

26/10/2021

The Great Spotted Woodpecker has continued its dramatic range expansion in Ireland and now occurs in all counties. Records submitted to the National Biodiversity Data Centre show it is extremely widespread in Leinster, has colonised much of the border counties and continues to extend its range westward, though it is still relatively scarce west read more

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