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Scottish birds are on the cusp of extinction

According to the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, Scotland’s capercaillies are in trouble; their numbers are falling relentlessly and, if effective measures aren’t taken, extinction looms, writes Richard Collins

Ancient census of royal swans helps to conserve the bird

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Manuscript returns to Dublin 400 years after leaving

Interloper is beavering away

Waiting for return of the ospreys

Moroccan magpies like Irish cousins

Feathers fly amid faction fighting

Richard Collins on the traditions surrounding birds.

Mon, 10 Nov, 2008

High hopes for the fish-eating hawk

BROADLOUGH is a shallow coastal lagoon on the river Vartry just south of Wicklow town. There, on a sunny day last October, I encountered one of the great hopefuls of Irish ornithology; an osprey.

Mon, 04 Dec, 2006