A FEMALE bottle-nosed dolphin became stranded in Co Kerry last year and was returned to the sea.

LITTLE terns began nesting at Crimdon, near Hartlepool in Teeside, in the mid-1990s.

BLACKFISH, a documentary-style murder mystery, opens in cinemas this month.

THE recent sunny spell brought bees out in force; bumbles are flitting between flowers in my garden.

THE news from Syria is so dreadful, you must forgive me for mentioning something trivial; reports this week say only one bald ibis has returned to Palmyra, the site of the country’s only breeding colony.

IT’S Leaving Cert time again; the cruel Darwinian ‘points race’ is selecting out the fittest. Such trials, alas, have always been with us.

ACCORDING to the State of Nature report just published, 60% of Britain’s native species have declined during the last half century and 10% may soon be extinct.

RONAN and Emma Lally have caused quite a stir.

THE jellyfish has no brain, no bones and no teeth.

THE red-necked phalarope is a colourful little wading bird, which used to breed in Ireland.