Selected Recent Experience

(Additional Projects Available on request)

Solar Farms, Co. Cork/Clare/Offaly/Tipperary/Meath 2022 – 2025 (various clients including: Soleire Renewables, ESB).

Project Management of the full ecological assessment of proposed solar farms in Co. Cork, Offaly, Meath, and Tipperary, including Preliminary Ecological Appraisals (PEAs), AA-Screenings, Natura Impact Statements (NIS), Appropriate Assessment (AA), Ecological Impact Assessment (EcIA), Biodiversity Management Plan (BMP), aquatic Surveys, protected mammal Surveys (including bats and otters), breeding bird and wintering Bird Surveys.

Bat Surveys (Infrastructure Projects (2016 – Ongoing).

Bat Surveys for large infrastructure programmes within Ireland, inc. construction, infrastructure, forestry, and windfarm projects. Recent bat Surveys include Ballyfeeny, Crag, Milane Hill, and Killadeer windfarms (2024 – Present); the N6 GCRR (2023); Ballinasloe Strategic Housing Project (2022); Various Solar and Wind Farm projects in Cork, Clare, Tipperary, Meath, and Offaly, respectively, on behalf of Entrust Planning Services (2020-2022) and ESB (2022); N59 Moycullen Bypass (Wills) (2022 – 2023); and N5 Turlough to Westport (Wills-BAM (JV) and RPS) (2019).

Ornithological surveys for wind turbine developments, solar farms, and other large scale infrastructure projects (2016 – Ongoing).

Conducted surveys include Vantage Point (VP) counts, hinterland, feeding distribution, general breeding, and wintering surveys, as well as specialised wader and single species surveys such as Woodcock, Barn Owl, Hen Harrier, Merlin, and other raptors, in Counties Galway, Cork, Clare, Tipperary, Meath, and Offaly, respectively. Most recently at Ballyfeeny, Crag, Milane Hill, and Killadeer windfarms (2024 – Present).

Avian Collision Risk Modelling at various Windfarms 2022-2025 (FuturEnergy, BioSphere Environmental Services, Greensource, EDF).

Provided Collision Risk Modelling to Wind farm sites. Target species included Woodcock, Barn Owl, Hen Harrier, Red Kite, and Merlin, and other upland birds and raptors. Most recently at Ballyfeeny, Crag, Milane Hill, and Killadeer windfarms (2024 – Present).

N6 GCRR, Co. Galway 2023-2025 (Scott Cawley and ARUP Group on behalf of Galway County Council)

Project Manager, responsible for the delivery of the ecological surveys, options selection assessment, the assessment of impacts and development of the mitigation strategy. Lead author of the biodiversity chapter of the EIAR, the AA Screening Report and the NIS. Designed and conducted extensive habitat, mammal (inc. bats), marsh fritillary, amphibian, and wintering and breeding bird surveys (inc. Woodcock) in and around Galway city to support the planning application of the N6 Galway City Ring Road.

Galway Racecourse Stables (2023-2024 Scott Cawley and ARUP Group on behalf of Galway City Council)

Project Manager and lead author, responsible for the delivery of the ecological surveys. Lead author of the biodiversity chapter of the EIAR, the AA Screening Report and the NIS. Designed and conducted habitat, mammal (inc. bats), marsh fritillary, and wintering and breeding bird surveys within the Racecourse Project area to support the planning application.

Bective Hotel, County Meath 2021 – 2023.

Construction of the Bective Hotel, a 104-bedroom hotel at the historic Bective House in Navan County Meath. Projects managed included: AA-Screenings, NISs, EcIAs, CEMP formulations, Protected Species surveying, derogation licence applications, ECoW monitoring and regulation of bridge and embankment works; breeding and targeted (Dipper) bird surveys.

N59 Moycullen Bypass 2021 – 2023 (Wills)

Ecologist in attendance (ECoW) throughout the construction works of the N59 Moycullen Bypass. Also conducted IAPS surveys, mammal surveys, breeding bird surveys, and bat surveys.

N17 R320 Lisduff Junction Upgrade 2022 – 2023 (BAM)

Conducted Bat Surveys, and IAPS Phase 1 surveys and Method Statements for IAPS removal for the N17 R320 Lisduff Junction Upgrade. Ecologist in attendance for the supervised removal of IAPS and demolition of buildings located within the projected works.

OPW Appropriate Assessment of the 2020-2024 arterial drainage maintenance programme (Ryan Hanley).

NIS element of the Appropriate Assessment. Daniel was involved in the habitat classification, protected species surveys, and invasive-species surveys of approximately 515km of channels and embankments for six Arterial Drainage Schemes.

N5 Turlough to Westport, 2019 - 2020 (Wills BAM JV/RPS).

Co-led the protected habitat, mammal, bat, bird (breeding), and IAPS surveying teams, respectively, prior to commencement of works in February 2020. One of the Ecological Clerk of Works on the N5 project.

Pipeline Sites, IAPS Investigation & Management Plans, Limerick City, County Limerick 2021 – 2023 (Limerick County Council).

Surveyed sites across Co. Limerick to develop Phase 1 and Phase 2 invasive species management plans for seven different districts including Limerick West, Limerick North, Limerick East, Cappamore, Kilmallock, Adare Rathkeale, and Newcastle west.

(Woodland) Natural Capital Assessment, 2021 – 2023 (Veon Ecology).

Project involved designing and carrying out Baseline Ecological Surveys (including Bat Surveys) to inform a Natural Capital Assessment (NCA) of a client's entire Forest Portfolio (20 sites amounting to 679 hectares).