Person: Eric Dempsey

A COMPREHENSIVE SERIES OF ARTICLES ON THIS TOPIC

general

Winter greens: How to champion our environment this season

Kya deLongchamps shows us how to champion our environment

home and gardens

Islands of Ireland: To everything tern, tern, tern

home and gardens

Little wanderers in the wild need care over the winter season

Seaweed rich in nourishment and free, for now

Buzzing with excitement after unusual-looking species

On the box: Bird’s-eye viewing the new reality TV

A new reality TV craze is sweeping the country with householders glued to bird boxes.

Fri, 28 Jun, 2013

Why not give an activity this year?

How about a day out with the Twitchers as a Christmas gift? Author and expert Eric Dempsey of Birds Ireland offers a number of trips and full-day workshops from his base in Co Wicklow.

Sun, 09 Dec, 2012

‘Worst breeding summer’ as birds abandon nests

Birds all over the country have abandoned their nests due to the washout summer, making it one of the worst breeding years in memory.

Fri, 17 Aug, 2012

Irish bird habitats book one for the shelf

THERE are not as many books about birds in Ireland as there are about birds in Britain.

Mon, 18 Jun, 2012

Fox may have undeserved reputation

FEW animals better highlight the urban-rural divide in Ireland than the fox.

Mon, 02 Jan, 2012

The gift of Irish wildlife in a book

BOOKS make excellent Christmas gifts and last Monday’s Examiner carried recommendations from the crime-thriller, vampire and general fiction genres.

Mon, 12 Dec, 2011

Cats ’n’ dogs? No, it’s rainingbirds and fish

THOUSANDS of red-winged blackbirds fell from the sky in Beebe, Arkansas, during New Year’s Eve celebrations.

Mon, 17 Jan, 2011

Perfect time to turn over new leaves

BOOKS make ideal Christmas presents and, this year, the outdoors reader is spoiled for choice. Here are a few suggestions.

Mon, 06 Dec, 2010

Take flight with superb nature books

TWO new, outstanding nature books from Gill & Macmillan arrived in the post this week.

Mon, 27 Sep, 2010

Phalarope breaks all conventions

ACCORDING to ornithologist Eric Dempsey, three red-necked phalaropes visited a site in the midlands this summer.

Mon, 26 Jul, 2010

Coming in from the cold

IN January 2007, a strange bird was seen on the sea off Farnham in Yorkshire.

Mon, 12 Apr, 2010

‘Bird walk’ through magical pages

Damien Enright takes flight with a wonderful book.

Mon, 15 Sep, 2008

2,500 celebrate great outdoors at science festival

MORE than 2,500 people from the south-east revelled in this year’s Bealtaine Festival of Outdoor Science, a week-long event which saw them embrace the great outdoors.

Tue, 20 May, 2008

A bird book that ticks all the boxes

FOR the weekend birder, the peripatetic birder (the travelling salesman, say) or the twitcher, Finding Birds in Ireland, The Complete Guide, by Dempsey and O’Clery is the book to buy.

Mon, 26 Nov, 2007

The harmless hunt for the feathered grail

LATE summer is a lean time for the birdwatcher.

Mon, 15 Oct, 2007

Unusual visitor wings its way in to meet the native gulls

A STRANGE gull has taken up residence in the centre of Dublin. I have not seen the celebrity myself but Eric Dempsey, who runs the Birds of Ireland News Service (BINS) and is an authority on rare birds, has been keeping tabs on the visitor.

Mon, 26 Mar, 2007