Place: Little Skellig

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<p>A Minke Whale lunge feeding on schooling prey near Skellig Beag. Picture: Valerie O'Sullivan</p>

outdoors

On a mission to boost marine habitat health

Greater Skellig hot spot included in same league as the Galápagos Islands and the Great Barrier Reef

<p>The gannet’s body is specially adapted for diving. Air sacs under the skin of the head and chest protect it like bubble-wrap as it hits the surface of the water at 100kmph. Gannets hunt fish by diving into the sea from a height and pursuing their prey underwater. For this picture, the camera was in an underwater housing lowered into the water as the birds were feeding</p>

outdoors

Juanita Browne: Visit a seabird colony — they're wildlife wonders

general

New collection shines a light on the Skelligs

news

Little Skellig gannets using plastic to build nests, says Birdwatch Ireland

We can learn from New Zealand about eliminating unwanted invaders

news

Skellig Ring named as one of top regions for travellers in Lonely Planet 2017 yearbook

Skellig is a tough old rock and can survive Star Wars

As the ‘Star Wars’ film crew returns to Skellig Michael on Monday, Liam Quinn agrues that the claims the Unesco World Heritage Site will be damaged simply don’t stand up.

Sat, 12 Sep, 2015

Gannets facing wind farm risks

Wind farms out a sea are probably less harmful to wildlife than land-based ones.

Mon, 25 May, 2015

Choosing our avian mascots

IN 1961 Nelle Harper Lee, ‘the Jane Austen of Southern Alabama’, won a Pulitzer Prize for her novel To Kill a Mockingbird.

Mon, 14 Jan, 2013

Ventry walk is steeped in history

VENTRY/ST COLMAN’S WALK, CO KERRY

Mon, 07 Jan, 2013

World-class show by our starlings

OH TO be in Africa where the great herds of wildebeest are crossing the Serengeti and the Masai Mara on their annual migration.

Mon, 16 Jan, 2012

This gannet colony chooses an odd spot

IRELAND has a new gannet colony; the first to be established since 1988.

Mon, 13 Aug, 2007

Skelligs to get EU-protected status

THERE can be few more magnificent sights off the coast than the spectacle of the Skellig Rocks sitting serenely in the Atlantic on a clear, sunny day. But, of the two million tourists that come to the south-west each year, only a fraction ever go to the trouble of taking a ferry to these remote citadels.

Mon, 05 Mar, 2007