3 days ago · Rathlin’s butterflies put on a good show this year, with big influxes of migrants adding to the usual colourful array of resident species This was our ninth year recording butterflies on Rath…

Mar 29, 2025 · 2024 was yet another action-packed year of avian activity on Rathlin, and as ever there has been no shortage of things to pack into our annual report! Our seventh annual bird report covers …

New for 2024, we’ve put together a wee booklet of the birds of Rathlin covering the species most likely to be encountered on the island. The famous cliff-nesting seabirds take pride of place on the front …

Rathlin Bird Report 2024

Two nature nerds on Rathlin Island

Dec 23, 2024 · Rathlin’s “usual suspects” – in 2024, these 15 species of butterfly were recorded on Rathlin, with nothing really unexpected appearing this year. We’ve shown them all here in taxonomic …

New for 2024, we’ve put together a wee booklet of the birds of Rathlin covering the species most likely to be encountered on the island. The famous cliff-nesting seabirds take pride of place on the front …

Posts about charophytes written by hkwatsonPyramidal Bugle is a rare and very localised plant within all of Ireland, occurring on Rathlin and a few sites on the west coast, but not known from anywhere else …

Rathlin is a special place for birds and bird lovers alike. The island is home to breeding bird species that are scarce in NI, as well as others that occur in regionally, and in some cases internationally, …

In our continuing quest to learn more about the wildlife of Rathlin (and wildlife in general), we try to find, identify and record as many species on the island as possible. Having landed here in 2017 already …