The Trusts’ radio-tracking study on the life of lapwing chicks features on the new RTÉ television series of ‘The Zoo’ this Sunday the 6th May at 6.30 pm.
Posted on May 4, 2017 in Lapwing News, Media, Trust, Trust News, Website News, Wildlife News
Irish Grey Partridge Conservation Trust
Conserving Ireland's Native Game Birds: The Grey Partridge and Red Grouse
Posted on May 3, 2016 in Lapwing News, Media, News
This article appears in the Irish Examiner dated Friday, April 29, 2016. The original full article can be read here: http://www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/outdoors/richard-collins/the-survival-rate-of-lapwing-chicks-is-alarmingly-low-394777.html A farmer, walking his fields
Posted on April 26, 2016 in Lapwing News, News, Trust News
Large numbers of hatched chicks do not necessarily equate to a large number of fledged young During this study the breeding productivity of lapwings in
Posted on October 28, 2015 in Lapwing News, Trust, Trust News
In just two breeding seasons, forty-one Lapwing chicks, from forty-one separate broods have been radio-tracked in the grey partridge conservation project area. This objective of
Posted on June 29, 2015 in Lapwing News
Some pictures from lapwing radio tracking fieldwork.
Posted on June 24, 2015 in Lapwing News, Trust News
Research carried out by the Trust is gathering data on Lapwing chick survival and the causes of mortality. Interestingly this research is been carried out on NPWS lands not
Posted on June 8, 2015 in Lapwing News, Trust News
Exciting times for the lapwing radio tracking project at Irish Grey Partridge Conservation Trust! So far we have radio tagged 13 lapwing chicks! Hopefully
Posted on April 2, 2015 in Lapwing News, Trust News
Today, the first clutch of lapwing eggs in 2015 has been found in Boora. The nest was found in the Marl Square – an area favoured by
Posted on March 10, 2015 in Lapwing News, Media, Trust
The Trust will continue its radio tracking study to look at the causes of mortality among lapwing chicks. 88 nests with eggs and 40 broods
Posted on December 13, 2014 in Lapwing News, Trust, Wildlife News
This year forty-two broods of lapwing chicks and thirty-four lapwing nests with eggs were recorded on the grey partridge project area in Boora County Offaly.