Kilcoole Little Tern Conservation Project

The last week or two have been a bit quieter than the start of July The first batch of chicks has come and gone. The vast majority of them h...

Since the last post it's been all go at Kilcoole. Not long after the last update we lost nearly 50 nests to a high spring tide. This was...

As you can guess from the title...we've got chicks! 22 days since our first egg was discovered and the first few clutches are starting ...

In the last nearly two weeks since we found our first active nest we've gone all the way up to over 100 active nests, with no signs of s...

It's been a busy week at the colony! Since I last wrote we've completed the colony fencing and we've had several great and enthu...

It's now mid May, and the Little Terns are just arriving back at Kilcoole after spending the winter around the warm seas of west Africa....

The Little Tern breeding season has come to a close. 24/hr monitoring of the colony ended on the 22nd of July, and the wardens embarked on t...