BirdWatch Ireland
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Another Life: Badgers once again top list of roadkill
- Environment
- November 28, 2020, 06:00
Beyond the darkling hills of the Wild Atlantic Way, the big roads widen, straighten, point sweepingly from A to B. In the nights before Christmas I im(...)

How to create a classic tailored winter garden
- Gardens
- October 24, 2020, 06:00
If the quintessential summer garden is the frothy, floaty equivalent of a pretty summer dress, then the best kind of winter garden is like a classic w(...)

The importance of cracking down on carbofuran
- Science
- September 17, 2020, 01:00
“Carbofuran has the unpleasant distinction of being so hazardous to wildlife, that it simply cannot be regulated or managed accordingly without mortal(...)

Another Life: Our waders are growing fewer year by year
- Environment
- August 29, 2020, 06:00
In the many years of this column, I’ve explored much bad news about Ireland’s birds – species after species shown as “threatened” or “vulnerable” in t(...)

‘You could stick a broom handle in the Kerry ground and it would grow’
- Gardens
- August 29, 2020, 06:00
It was back in 1990 that American-born Marilyn and Ray Farrell, art gallery owners based in Maine, accepted an invitation from their artist friend, Ne(...)

Another Life: Arrival of great skuas may alter seabird balance on Clare Island
- Environment
- August 15, 2020, 06:00
Birds, too, have their bullies, muggers and thieves. Seagulls, some of them, snatch ice-creams and sandwiches from human fingers. I once watched a rav(...)

The declining choughs of Dursey island need decision makers’ help
- Environment
- July 11, 2020, 06:00
At the far end of Dursey island, Co Cork, the choughs are gathering in new families to probe the ground for grubs, stabbing the wind-shorn grass with (...)

Spotted flycatcher is less likely to be spotted with each passing year
- Environment
- June 13, 2020, 06:00
Last year it was the mistle thrush that grabbed me – my affectionate attention, that is. Each morning as I marched out to measure the rain, he was per(...)

Lonely lapwings and the secret world of non-breeders
- Environment
- May 16, 2020, 06:00
Early to my desk, I found the hillside seriously somnolent: the ewes still pillowed, their lambs close and dozing. The ocean gleamed with zig-zags of (...)

Mixed messages from politicians on biodiversity
- Environment
- February 1, 2020, 06:00
On first encounter a generation ago, it seemed such gawky jargon, the coinage of science journals, that I winced at using it here in ordinary, affable(...)