National Biodiversity Data Centre

Pollinator-friendly farming

Welcome to this course for farmers, farm advisors and agricultural students, as part of the All-Ireland Pollinator Plan, implemented by the National Biodiversity Data Centre and supported by the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine.

How to identify and record Ireland's ants

Ireland's farmland birds

This course aims to give farmers some background to the link between birds and agriculture and how to identify farmland bird species.

Spiders of Ireland

In this course, we will get a brief introduction to Ireland's native spiders, developed with Collie Ennis.

Identifying Ireland's common farmland hoverflies

In this course, you'll learn about the key identification features of hoverflies and how to identify species commonly found in Ireland which includes those frequently recorded on Farmland as part of the Protecting Farmland Pollinators EIP project.

Marine Biodiversity Citizen Science Open Course

This course is designed to enable beginners and those wishing to refresh their recording skills to identify and record common marine intertidal species found around the Irish coastline.