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The initial release of igr supported Irish grid references with precision of 1 m, 10 m, 100 m, 1 km, 10 km and 100 km square. A refinement of Irish grid references to refer to 2 km squares – also known as tetrads – involves placing a letter after a 10 km grid reference. The … Read more

Digital Nature is pleased to announce the initial release of igr, an open-source R package designed to simplify using Irish grid references in R. The package is now available via CRAN. Location data can be stored in many different forms and formats, and locations on the island of Ireland have often been recorded using Irish … Read more

Congratulations to the Heritage of County Cork publication team who recently launched their latest book, the Natural Heritage of County Cork, with the support of Cork County Council and the Heritage Council. As well as introducing the flora and fauna of the county, the book also includes details of 30 standout sites where the richness … Read more

Detailed information on recent work with BirdWatch Ireland has just been published in the peer-reviewed Irish Birds Journal, Issue Number 45. This issue includes articles on: A sincere thanks to all the co-authors of these articles, the funders of these projects, and the editorial team and peer-reviewers of Irish Birds for helping deliver and publish … Read more

Digital Nature was delighted to display a summary of the results of its exploration of Yellowhammer data at the Irish Ornithological Research Conference 2023