Kilcoole Little Tern Conservation Project

With August coming to a close, how did the Little Terns do this year? The answer is a record smashing success! This year an estimated 1...

The field season for the Kilcoole Little Terns has come to an end in great celebration! This year has been incredible in terms of productivi...

We have already looked at other species breeding inside the Tern colony - Oystercatcher , Ringed Plover , Skylark and Mallard . We have als...

Nesting at the colony has finished for the 2015 season. All our chicks have come of age - the last chicks fledged two days ago. We have been...

I had some fun playing with a trail-cam in the colony today. This kind of camera uses motion sensors so that whenever there is movement with...

Most of the chicks at Kilcoole are well on their way to fledging. The youngest chicks roaming the shingle are 10 days old now, and all their...

The beach at Kilcoole is not only home to the Little Terns: we have many species on the shore, in the lagoon, in the surrounding farmland an...