Mark Shorten

Mark Shorten has been birding activity since 1975 and has been involved in many conservation projects and surveys since then. He has contributed to the Winter Atlas, Breeding Atlas 1988-91 and 2007-11, Chough Survey 1993, Cork Seabird survey 1985, Cork Harbour Counts 1978-2005, country bird survey and Dragonfly Atlas. He was editor of the Cork Bird Report 1990-95 and Cork bird recorder 1990-2021. He is joint author of the   ‘The Birds of County Cork’. 

He wrote the original proposal to create a Harpers Island bird reserve and is involved with its management.

Since 2018 he has worked on the BRIDE Project as bird surveyor and scoring Results Based Payments. Since 2019 he has worked as a bird surveyor on windfarm projects. He has a particular interest in bird sound recording and has developed an expertise in Nocmig and bird call identification. He has sound recorded over 130 species in Ireland.