We are embarking on an exciting herbarium digitisation project, DigiHerb, in partnership with Naturkundemuseum Karlsruhe & UGent Botany lab under the Interreg NWE programme. NBG Ireland Office of Public Works DBNherbarium

Lovely catch of Shelduck on the Ribble Estuary in Lancashire this morning for #BirdRinging 😊

March 17th is a day not only to honour our national patron saint in Ireland but also our local icon and hero in Fingal, the wheelie-mad Big Bird of Rush.

A rough north-east sea pounding the Isle of May today so seabirds sheltering off west side below big sea cliffs like these Puffins and Razorbills

A delightful #doodle of birds having a chat, left by a reader in a book of poems from 1674.

Great to see our paper out Biogeography.News! Both island characteristics and competitor density/presence impacts bird foraging traits in an island chain of the Indonesian Archipelago, showing the eco/evo processes at work in #biogeography #ornithology onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jb… 1/2

I mean, is this place just meant to be a giant tourist attraction?

Students at Trinity College Dublin have set up an encampment for Palestine, demanding that their university cut ties with Israel as per BDS principles supported by the vast majority of students and staff. 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸 Trinity BDS Campaign 🇵🇸 Trinity College Dublin Students' Union 🌈🇵🇸 Trinity College Dublin

Unmistakable beak: Olive-backed sunbird (Cinnyris jugularis) in #Brunei. Photo: Husini Bakar. Borneo #wildlife #birds #birding #wildlifephotography

Breaking: Trinity to work towards total divestment from Israel in unprecedented win for BDS. trinitynews.ie/2024/05/breaki…

Opinion: Footman Footnotes – Frank McNally on the late and very colourful Gillies MacBain irishtimes.com/opinion/an-iri… via Irish Times Opinion

📺 'Ireland's Hidden Treasures' is available on RTÉ Player: rte.ie/player/series/…. Ep. 2 discussed Sáirséal agus Dill, an Irish-language publisher. These #illustrations by #AnnYeats were for "Margadh na Saoire". Explore more #sketches in our catalogue: catalogue.nli.ie/Search/Results…

#dogsatpollingstations

Such terrible news coming from St. Michan's Church, with the destruction of mummified remains through arson. I included this historic postcard in the Three Castles Burning book. I don't believe the lore that Stoker was ever there, but in the same decade that he was writing

DBN herbarium staff have collaborated with National Parks and Wildlife Service colleagues to publish a study on assessing genetic variation and taxonomic integrity of rare bryophytes in Ireland. Colin Kelleher Christina Campbell Fionn Ó Marcaigh NBG Ireland npws.ie/sites/default/…

Interesting piece here about Nicholas Payne and his search for great white sharks in Irish waters. How cool is that! rte.ie/news/2024/0710… 🦈🦈🌊⚓️

‘Feasta’ Imleabhar XVI (16) Uimhir 12 Eagrán na Leabhar, Márta 1964 Mionphortráidí déanta ag Úna Watters de mhórscríbhneoirí Gaeilge na linne.

July 22 1796 - Huzza! Huzza! I am always huzzaing, like a blockhead.

Nice to see our paper out in the latest issue of Biogeography.News! Both island characteristics and competitor density/presence impacted bird foraging traits in an Indonesian island chain, showing the eco/evo processes at work in #biogeography #ornithology onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jb…

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