OUR civilisation ‘rests’ on the ‘three Rs’.

CORNCRAKES, barn owls, and their likes, are the ‘sick men’ among Irish birds.

LONESOME GEORGE passed away ‘peacefully’ at the Charles Darwin Research Centre in the Galapagos.

THE cuckoo is in trouble.

CELEBRATING the exploits of frontierswoman Martha Jane Canary, Doris Day sang, “Take me back to the Black Hills, the Black Hills of Dakota”, in the 1950s film Calamity Jane.

IT is said “God made the world but the Dutch made Holland”.

ACCORDING to the Meteorological Service, average temperatures here rose by three quarters of a degree in the last 20 years.

MAY 6 was International Dawn Chorus Day. People struggled out of bed at cockcrow to hear the birds.

TWO young lionesses can be seen at the new ‘Asian Forests’ facility in Dublin Zoo.

THE collared dove, now firmly established as a native bird, bred for the first time in Ireland in 1959.