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Welcome to the Explore Your Shore! Seashore Splash! for Heritage Week 2020.

From 15th to the 23rd August we are asking those visiting the coast, within the Covid19 travel limits allowed under government guidelines, to record and photograph as many marine species as possible and upload them for the National Biodiversity Data Centre’s Explore Your Shore! citizen science survey, funded by the EPA.

We will be sending out regular reminders via the National Biodiversity Data Centre Twitter account and our Explore Your Shore! Facebook account. You can check into this site daily to see how things are progressing in terms of total records recorded, total species recorded and which coastal county is leading the way in terms of marine biodiversity recording.

We also want YOU to share your daily photos with us via social media, while not forgetting to reord via our web app or online recording form.

And there’s a prize!! – two lucky recorders who submit records for our Seashore Splash! will win a copy of our brand new identification swatch on Ireland’s Marine Bivalve Shells (which will be available from the National Biodiversity Data Centre online shop very soon!).

You can upload your records for our Seashore Splash! here


  • Records by Species


  • Records by County


  • Recording Effort


  • Recording Impact