World Wetlands Day: Free birdwatching event in Tramore
This Sunday 2nd February is World Wetlands Day. This is an international day to celebrate your local peatlands, rivers, mudflats, estuaries, lakes and marshes.
On Sunday in Tramore from 10.30a.m. to 12.30 p.m. ornithologist Denis Cullen will hold a FREE birdwatching event in the bird hide at Tramore Nature Park. This is a fantastic way to get your eye in to identify some of the incredible birds that gather in Tramore Backstrand for winter before they start making their way back to Iceland, Greenland and Northern Europe. Get to know a wide range of species that call this wetland home. Come down and join in for some expert knowledge. Suitable for all ages.
World Wetlands Day is an initiative of the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands. Ireland is one of 172 signatories to the framework to protect and restore these habitats for their unique biodiversity. Waterford has two wetlands of international importance known as Ramsar sites – Tramore Backstrand
