10,000 Birds

MARCH 1, 2024

Most of the Icelandic population winters in the British isles The sightings stopped, but then on 18 February 2019 EY70 137 was observed on Lady’s Island Lake, Wexford, Ireland. Did it then move on to Ireland? Was this where it spent its winters? It seems highly likely that it was.

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Lithuania Iceland Morocco Ireland 130

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 14, 2012

Thumbing through the cheap flight destinations from the local airport and trying to figure where might offer the chance of something different in early October without breaking the bank I was drawn to the short hop over to Ireland.

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Ireland Geese Stray Europe 155

10,000 Birds

MARCH 29, 2024

Over 150 headstarted Curlew chicks have also been colour-ringed as it is vital to assess the return rates and survival of these captive-reared individuals too.”

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Fox Eggs Finland Badgers 193

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

All month long we’ll be visiting – in spirits, at least – the rugged Celtic landscapes of Scotland and Ireland where whiskey was born and – with luck – have a look at the birds that inhabit them.

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New York Owls New York City Cuba 204

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

All month long we’ll be visiting – in spirits, at least – the rugged Celtic landscapes of Scotland and Ireland where whiskey was born and – with luck – have a look at the birds that inhabit them. I must admit that this isn’t the bottle I had planned for the final installment of this year’s edition of Whiskey Month at Birds and Booze.

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Eagles Ireland Oregon Protection 203

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 30, 2013

Portstewart may be considered one of the finest bird watching points in Northern Ireland, but visitors will find crane flies more prominent this time of year! This weekend, at least for those of us in the United States, takes us across the threshold from symbolic summer to fall.

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Ireland United States 2013 Birds 152

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 15, 2017

And in Ireland, well… In Ireland they killed Wrens. In Wales people who slept in late – and female servants, who probably never slept in late in their lives – used to be beaten with holly branches for luck, although modern assault laws have largely ended the practice. And tied them to the top of sticks.

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Ireland New Zealand Hunting Cooking 131

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Here in the southeast of Europe where I live, woodpeckers appear slim, but up there in Ireland where the painter Killian Mullarney lives, they may more commonly fluff up their feathers to keep more air for insulation and this new ball-like appearance (literally!) may be more usual for northern Europe?

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Europe Birds Woodpeckers Ireland 252

Critter News

APRIL 12, 2010

This complaint is the result of proposed legislation to ban puppy mills in Ireland. Tags: Ireland legislation puppy mills dogs. Legislators are being contacted by people around the world to support the legislation. They are blaming the dastardly Green Party whose leader proposed the legislation.

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Puppy Mills Animal Welfare Legislation Ireland 100

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 19, 2012

Enjoy gorgeous vistas like this exquisite cloudscape over Dunfanaghey, Ireland (Find out what Alan spied under those Irish skies …). Whatever your plans this weekend, make time to enjoy SkyWatch Friday. Also be sure to come back Monday to share your best bird of the weekend !

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Ireland 2012 Birds 144

10,000 Birds

JULY 9, 2011

They range across most of Europe and into the southern parts of Scandinavia, but, like all other woodpeckers have shunned Ireland (Ireland does however have Guinness and the Irish, so there is some justice in the world). The most striking feature of a grounded bird is the red crown with a black face and pale eye.

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Woodpeckers Ireland 2010 Suffering 168

Reddit Animals

JANUARY 2, 2021

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United Kingdom Ireland Whales Whaling 40

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 26, 2012

Whooper Swans ( Cygnus cygnus ) The Whooper Swans of the UK and Ireland generally come from Iceland. The site is an important wintering site of Whooper Swans , a large Arctic migrant that is found across the northern extent of Eurasia. They are popular birds, and are the National Bird of Finland.

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Finland Ireland Iceland Birds 104

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

All month long we’ll be visiting – in spirits, at least – the rugged Celtic landscapes of Scotland and Ireland where whiskey was born and – with luck – have a look at the birds that inhabit them.

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Owls Ireland United States Europe 214

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 5, 2015

Steve Falk gives authoritative accounts and Richard Lewington provides the detailed illustrations in the Field Guide to the Bees of Great Britain and Ireland (a British Wildlife Guide published by Bloomsbury ). Backed up by hundreds of excellent photographs, they have brought to life the bees of the British Isles.

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Ireland United States Game 2010 101

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 12, 2012

Perhaps the biggest event of this winter has been the late winter occurrence of hundreds of ‘white-winged gulls’ from Shetland to Dover and seemingly at all points in between we, in Britain & Ireland, have been inundated with Iceland Gulls and Glaucous Gulls in recent weeks.

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Ireland Iceland Endangered Species Japan 155

10,000 Birds

MARCH 10, 2013

Dressed up to the nines they just can’t resist the urge to get out there and put on a display for the rest of the party-goers who are often still in the early stages of waking up or acquiring the necessary dutch courage to get out and give it some. Inland -breeding waders are without doubt the local equivalent of early party dancers.

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Factory Ireland Breeding Rescue 165

10,000 Birds

MARCH 28, 2011

We have not coined it, but how wide its use in Ireland we cannot say; it may have origin in this one fertile Celtic brain, or it may have been handed down from father to son for many generations. The spelling is uncertain; probably its author could not have informed us, whoever its inventor was; it is certainly not in most dictionaries.

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Ireland Birds 225

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 7, 2016

The coast of the Mediterranean Sea is used mostly as a wintering ground, with just a handful of breeding colonies between Greece, northern Italy and eastern Spain (and recently through central Europe all the way to Ireland). So there you have it: conservative taxonomy leads to unfortunate common names.

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Europe Spain Italy Greece 120

10,000 Birds

MARCH 15, 2019

Remarkably, al-Maghrib’’s Kitab al-Juhrafiya ( Geography ) even makes mention of Ireland and Iceland, islands at the edge of the known world at the time, and identifies these places as sources of this coveted falcon.

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2016 Iceland Falcons Europe 100

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 31, 2012

Graham Clarke liked Dotterel , a bird he needed for Ireland. Dotterel are not exceptionally rare in Ireland occurring during both spring and autumn migration. However their preference for high mountains plateaus or large open stubble fields means that they are probably overlooked or pass through unseen.

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2012 Ghana Ireland Birds 133

Animal Person

MAY 2, 2009

The modern day racing greyhound's life is conditioned purely by economics - if it’s too old or slow to compete as a gambling medium - it will be disposed of as cheaply as possible and swiftly replaced with one that can, from endless supply which are bred in Ireland with the aid of EU funding.

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Greyhounds Speciesism RSPCA Euthanasia 100

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

I have invested in a book, “The Butterflies of Britain and Ireland” by Jeremy Thomas and Richard Lewington, from which most of the information above has been transposed. Others however were building on the success of the re-introduction scheme by ensuring that there is a new population for next season. The male is on the left.

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Rabbits Ireland Sheep 2002 155

4 The Love Of Animals

MARCH 17, 2010

Medium, 8-10 pounds) This cat originated on the Isle of Man, an island off the coast of Ireland. The Irish Wolfhound is a large, graceful, muscular dog, an excellent runner that makes a great family pet—but you’ll need a lot of space, and a large car! The most unique feature of the Manx is a short stub tail, or no tail at all.

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Pets Ireland Dogs Puppies 100

10,000 Birds

JULY 22, 2014

The species spread north to the Mediterranean, reaching parts of Spain and southern Europe, spread along the Atlantic coast of France and, at times, even reaching Britain and Ireland. In the east, this species can be found along the east coast of Africa, the Nile Valley,and into parts of the middle east and India and southeast Asia.

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Cattle South Korea Suriname Seychelles 170

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Counting the Birds I was in my teens when I undertook my first bird-survey: it was field work for the British Trust for Ornithology’s The Atlas of Breeding Birds in Britain and Ireland. The breeding and wintering birds of Britain and Ireland. Published in 1976, The Atlas was, I believe, the very first work of its kind.

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Ireland Turtles Geese Farming 215

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 28, 2011

Jason is a young American teaching English in Busan and Mike is a retired teacher originally from Ireland and we were soon talking all things birds as we drove into the countryside from Jinju, which was a 2 hour bus trip after a 45 minute train trip from the port area of Busan… so we are really leaving the city!

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United Kingdom Ireland Australia Investigation 157

10,000 Birds

JULY 23, 2014

A housecat in Buenos Aires got its start in Africa, a sheep in Australia to the Middle East, a chicken in Ireland can trace its origin to the jungles of Asia. They took dogs to Australia, chickens across the Pacific, rabbits to England, horses to the New World, and then brought potatoes back.

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New Zealand Possums Rabbits Ferrets 161

10,000 Birds

MAY 7, 2022

There are four regions in eBird ( England , Scotland , Wales , and Northern Ireland ) and the Collaborative has submitted checklists for all of them, with England leading the way at 198 species. The United Kingdom ranks sixteenth on the Collaborative’s country list with 211 species observed.

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United Kingdom Costa Rica Ireland United States 220

10,000 Birds

MARCH 8, 2024

Here some will remain for days, or, if the berry supply is good, weeks, but others head inland almost at once, and it’s usually not long before flocks turn up in western Britain and even Ireland. They are fast and efficient fliers, quite capable of covering considerable distances in a short time.

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Finland Estonia Bears Ireland 208

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 29, 2013

More importantly however, there used to be a time when identification guides were published that focussed entirely on the British Isles, leaving out many species of “continental” Europe, and these were labelled “of Britain and Europe” to promote sales outside the UK and Ireland.

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Europe Mammals Animal Birds 165

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Nuthatches are garden birds for many people in England and Wales (they are rare in Scotland and don’t occur in Ireland), but they like beech trees, and if you haven’t any beech trees in or near your garden, you are unlikely to see them.

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Barn Owls Japan Rats Owls 209

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 24, 2020

But seeing as the month is also bookended by Hogmanay and Burns Night, we’ll gladly take the opportunity to visit– in spirits, at least – the rugged Celtic landscapes of Scotland and Ireland where whisky was born and – with luck – have a look at the birds that inhabit them. He’s even been given a name: Gilbert. . Gilbert: The Famous Grouse.

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Sheep Branding Ireland Europe 194

Animal Person

JULY 20, 2009

Brief commentary follows this e-mail I received regarding greyhounds, animal rights and Ireland. At ARAN many of our volunteers work day and night fighting animal abuse- -we're simply asking you for just two hours during our week of action against the Greyhound industry in Ireland. Need reminding why cruelty to animals is wrong?

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Greyhounds Animal Rights Rights Ireland 100

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 3, 2013

Fortunately, I had T he Crossley ID Guide: Britain & Ireland by Richard Crossley and Dominic Couzens on my desk. Conceived and authored by Richard Crossley, birder, traveler, and photographer, The Crossley ID Guide: Britain & Ireland is the third book of the series. The description sounded a lot like a House Finch.

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Ireland 2013 United Kingdom Breeders 171

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 11, 2011

As Irene passed through Ireland depositing waders hither and thither, it was Tacumshin in County Wexford that hit the jackpot as it was transformed into a small corner of the US with Nearctic Waders appearing from every puddle.

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Ireland France Finland Estonia 221

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 6, 2013

Which is the story of how I ended up using Britain’s Dragonflies: A field guide to the damselflies and dragonflies of Britain and Ireland, 2 nd edition, by David Smallshire & Andy Swash to successfully identify my French dragonflies and damselflies. I’m going to look at Britain’s Dragonflies first.

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Ireland France Breeding Eggs 171