10,000 Birds

AUGUST 10, 2019

These individuals were seen during a cliff walk in Northern Ireland during August. My cliff walk took me up the Red Trail from the Giant’s Causeway (an outcrop of hexagonal, basaltic columns on the north coast of Northern Ireland). This year is an irruption year with Painted Ladies showing up in abundance.

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Reddit Animals

JANUARY 2, 2021

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 18, 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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Eagles Birds Deer Ireland 72

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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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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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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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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Owls Birds New York Species 77

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 Birds Species Ireland 77

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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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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10,000 Birds

MARCH 2, 2023

It is kind of interesting, actually, and about the Norman invasion of Ireland. But once you passed ‘the Pale,” you were outside the authority and safety of English law, and subject to all the savageries of rural Ireland. ’ “ This has absolutely nothing to do with the Pale Thrush , of course.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 Birds Ireland Breeding 81

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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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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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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Endangered Species Iceland Albatross Ireland 62

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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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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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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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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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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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 17, 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 whiskey was born and – with luck – have a look at the birds that inhabit them.

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Eagles Birds Lions Hunting 62

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 31, 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.

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Geese Birds Wildlife Ireland 61

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 Species Birds South Korea 67

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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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 Species Rabbits 64

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 Birds Species Ducks 68

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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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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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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10,000 Birds

MARCH 18, 2022

And of course, Saint Peter is the patron saint not of Ireland, but of places as varied as Rome, Scranton, and Las Vegas. So, with that, this is the best I could do this year. A cream stout by St Peter’s Brewery. Yes, it’s English ( shh! ).

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Las Vegas Birds Blackbirds Ireland 73

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 3, 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 whiskey was born and – with luck – have a look at the birds that inhabit them.

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