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Overview
This report is the published outcome of the work of the Northern Ireland Seabird Network — a network of volunteers, researchers and organisations — coordinated by the BTO Seabird Coordinator, and funded by NIEA.
It contains detailed species accounts for the 22 breeding seabird species in Northern Ireland, as well as articles on a range of topics:
- Manx Shearwaters nesting on Rathlin
- Rathlin Island Breeding Seabird Census 2025
- Tracking Lesser Black-backed Gulls on Lough Neagh
- Puffins return to Isle of Muck
- Outer Ards: 2025 Seabird Nesting Report
- Strangford Lough: 2025 Seabird Nesting Report
- Forthcoming seabird research work: ACCLIMATISE project
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Acknowledgements
This report is the published outcome of the work of the Northern Ireland Seabird Network — a network of volunteers, researchers and organisations — coordinated by the BTO Seabird Coordinator, and funded by the Northern Ireland Environment Agency.
The Editors of the Northern Ireland Seabird Report 2025 are grateful to the SMP, which includes BTO and JNCC (and RSPB as associate partner), for their assistance with data and strategy, and to Nina O’Hanlon, Erin Taylor and Dawn Balmer of BTO for their comments on and contributions to the draft. Special thanks to all those who have surveyed seabirds, collected data or provided information to assist us over the years. Thanks also to those who have contributed their photographs to this edition and others. This report would be impossible without your efforts and you have contributed to our knowledge of seabird populations in Northern Ireland.
We are also grateful for funding from the Environment Fund managed by NIEA/DAERA, particularly with the support of Steven Fyffe, Richard Gray, Claire Macnamara, Aoibheann Morrison, Ronan Owens, Liz Pothanikat and Richard Weyl.