Owen Murphy t/s Irish Wildlife Services is a wildlife management specialist, specialising in ornithology and the conservation of ground nesting birds. Irish Wildlife Services Director Owen Murphy has fulfilled contracts such as Curlew Advisory Officer for the Curlew Conservation Programme, Warden for Lough Ree and the mid-Shannon Callows for Midland’s Region of NPWS as well as many contracts for private ecological consultants. He is a Farm Planner on the NPWS Farm Planners panel and has written plans in relation to Breeding Waders and the associated habitat management. He specialises in Predation Risk Management, Conservation Detection Dog handling and training, surveying, report writing, landowner engagement, media, education and public outreach. He has extensive knowledge of the requirements of Breeding Waders and testament to this is the fact that Lough Ree ranked as the most important site for Breeding Waterbirds in Ireland in the recently published Irish WIldlife Manual No.129. He sits on Westmeath County Council’s Biodiversity Working Group as an independent specialist and also produces a Conservation themed Podcast series on Athlone Community Radio.

Irish Wildlife Services’s Director Owen will be employed as Project Manager of the Breeding Wader EIP-Agri Project

Trading As: Irish Wildlife Services