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PI Book of Birds of Ireland
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Prompted by a poll and suggestion by jb7 we’ve created a new ‘project’ forum to help create a virtual book
of Ireland’s birds.For information on it and how it might work check out the sticky in the new forum
https://www.photographyireland.net/viewtopic.php?t=10230For any of your nature photographers who missed the background to this, check out jb7’s post here:
https://www.photographyireland.net/viewtopic.php?t=9994In case you don’t already have a reason to get out and take photographs with the various post-processing challenges and this years newly started POTY competitions running, you now have a nature/wildlife photography project to get involved in :)
Thanks
Congratulations and well done to everyone who has submitted pictures so far for this. I haven’t seen a single bad shot in there.
Well done to you too Mark for setting up the forum so promptly. The initial response has been great.
Well done JB and Mark. Excellent idea. The quality of photos is amazing
and I don’t think Noely’s added his yet….Thanks Pete-
Though something so obvious is hardly even an idea-Its going very well, and surprisingly, not one swan or Blackbird yet-
Perhaps someone knowledgeable, Pete,
could keep track on how we’re doing-
How many indigenous birds have we,
how many rare ones,
infrequent visitors,
escapees from aviaries and zoos who have decided to settle,
and those who blow in through some failure of their GPS-The list is already long,
but how much longer can we expect it to get?One other thing-
As the list lengthens,
its going to get difficult to find birds-The taxonomy could surely be working better-
alphabetical is good, but it breaks down slightly-Maybe a telephone directory would be better-
For example,
we could have the family name first,
Tit, Blue
Tit, Coal
Tit, Long Tailedand so on,
You get the picture-Good to see so many good pictures-
I’m sure there’s many more to come too-j
jb
i am looking for a list at the moment of birds native to ireland
we can then put it up and update which ones we have images of
and add to the list the ones that are not on it
from what i can see there are around 200 species of native birds
here one list i found. but i think we would need to sort it how we want it
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_birds_of_Ireland
Good one Steve.
JB – finding them once the list grows will be the next challenge for me :)
i am not sure that list i found is the easiest thing to follow but it seems to be quite comprehensive
I found a list on the web and awaiting permission to reproduce it here on PI as a guide.
It has 210 birds on it.I have put a list at http://www.petethebloke.com/birds.html
It includes some seriously rare birds, and the Irish names are not all in yet (I’m doing them as
we speak). Perhaps you can copy and paste it once I’ve done the Irish names, Mark?Just a thought…once I’ve done the Irish names, it’ll give a fair indication
which birds are likely to be seen and which are just too rare.Right. It’s done. Sorry it took a while – I don’t type very quickly.
Can you let me know if you spot any spelling mistakes?Pete
Pete,
I’ll put up the list in the bird book forum later on today.
Thanks for getting it together.
MarkDo you want me to do something with that list? IE clean it up, make it sortable, and put together some way of flagging what is and what is not already on the forum?
There is a really really quick example here : http://www.4o3.net/birds/index.php
That could be linked up to pull from a database, which would allow an admin to link directly to the relevant bird threads as they come up. If you want I have no trouble putting that together and sticking the PI logo up the top of it.
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