Dublin Port’s resident colony of terns is “thriving”, according to the wildlife charity that has been monitoring their progress for over 10 years.

Helen Boland, manager of BirdWatch Ireland’s Dublin Bay Birds Project tells RTÉ News: “The numbers have been going up and up over the past few years — generally around 500-600 pairs. They are thriving.”

Both common and Arctic terns nest in the port on four platforms, two of them pontoons built for this purpose.

The seabirds migrate here over vast distances — the former from West Africa and the latter from as far as Antarctica, the longest migration of any bird species.

RTÉ News has more on the story HERE.