Mon, 30 Mar, 2020
The green linnet, alias the greenfinch, deserves such lavish praise; the male, in his green array, has bright-yellow wing-bars and tail-fringes.
Mon, 05 Nov, 2018
Sun, 20 Nov, 2016
Mon, 12 Oct, 2015
Wind farms out a sea are probably less harmful to wildlife than land-based ones.
Mon, 25 May, 2015
Willie wagtail has taken up residence in a supermarket in England (Ken Kendall, Irish Examiner, September 13).
Mon, 29 Sep, 2014
STAY OF EXECUTION
Mon, 22 Sep, 2014
A bird which earned a last minute reprieve after supermarket chain Tesco’s plans to shoot it caused a Twitter backlash in Britain has been caught and released.
Sun, 21 Sep, 2014
Supermarket chain Tesco has been forced to rethink a plan to hire a sniper to shoot a protected bird which has been flying around one of its stores.
Sat, 13 Sep, 2014
ACCORDING to Waterbirds in the UK 2012/13, a report just published by the British Trust for Ornithology, the populations of some duck and wader species are declining. Birds don’t recognise political boundaries and wetland ones are great travellers.
Mon, 01 Sep, 2014
Ornithologists dislike the use of ‘birdbrain’ as shorthand for stupid, because our feathered friends are very intelligent, says Rita de Brun. The British Trust for Ornithology has called on the British public to take part in a national survey on bird intelligence
Tue, 19 Aug, 2014
The whitethroats numbers have been affected by climate change in its winter home in the Sahel.
Mon, 23 Jun, 2014
DID three months of fierce winter storms affect our wildlife? Millions of trees were felled and swathes of farmland inundated.
Mon, 17 Mar, 2014
MANY people stop feeding the wild birds in their garden during the breeding season. The theory is it’s possible that young birds could choke on large seeds or pieces of nut that their parents bring back to them from bird feeders.
Mon, 04 Nov, 2013
COAL tits are visiting my garden.
Mon, 07 Jan, 2013
THE cuckoo is in trouble.
Mon, 02 Jul, 2012
THEY’RE clocking up thousands of miles as they complete their journey from England to Africa — and five migrating cuckoos fitted with tiny tracking devices are providing new information which could help explain a sharp decline in the number of the birds in Britain, scientists said Friday.
Sat, 20 Aug, 2011
Mon, 21 Mar, 2011
THE British Trust for Ornithology, normally called the BTO, publishes a Garden Bird Feeding Survey and it makes for interesting reading.
Mon, 27 Sep, 2010
THE songbirds of Europe are well studied, but some aspects of their lives are shrouded in mystery. Most small birds migrate at night, when we can’t see them; their flocks appear on radar screens.
Mon, 26 Jan, 2009
One of the largest ever surveys of birds in this country begins this week.
Sun, 28 Oct, 2007
RARELY has bird life in Ireland been receiving such publicity. Eagles, kites and hen harriers are all making headlines and attention could now be turning to the plight of songbirds which are facing a relatively new threat.
Mon, 10 Sep, 2007
A NOTE from the British Trust for Ornithology (the ‘BTO’) says that a sparrowhawk, ringed by me, has been found in Malahide.
Mon, 03 Sep, 2007
A WEEKEND to show how a green future could look takes place this Saturday and Sunday in Co Down where sustainable and environmentally friendly living will be on the agenda.
Thu, 23 Aug, 2007
A HUGE bird project is about to get under way and it’s one in which readers of the Outdoors page can participate.
Mon, 23 Jul, 2007
THE area of North County Dublin where I live used to be farmed.
Mon, 18 Jun, 2007
TWO RECENT studies, totally unconnected with each other, suggest mobile phones may be having a negative effect on wildlife. At first sight the notion seems a bit bizarre, or even paranoid, but the findings are interesting.
Mon, 21 May, 2007
Two recent studies, totally unconnected from each other, suggest that mobile phones may be having a negative effect on wildlife.
Mon, 14 May, 2007
I RINGED four blackcaps in the last month. What’s so remarkable about that you may ask; blackcaps are common birds nowadays.
Mon, 29 Jan, 2007
PEOPLE DON’T like starlings. They are noisy, aggressive and greedy. Their nests, often in the roofs of houses, are a total mess and they gobble up everything on the bird table, leaving nothing for the smaller birds.
Mon, 16 Oct, 2006
IF THE Keep Britain Tidy campaigners are to be believed, there has been a 20% rise in the number of rats on our sister island.
Mon, 09 Oct, 2006
ADULT CUCKOOS have left our shores and soon their youngsters will bid farewell to their devoted foster parents and head for Africa.
Wed, 30 Aug, 2006
I LIVE beside the sea, where the arrival of the seasons is announced on the avian public address system.
Mon, 14 Aug, 2006
The blackbird was today named as the nation’s early bird in a survey of more than 6,000 gardens across Ireland and Britain.
Thu, 23 Dec, 2004
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