Irish birds doing well but worrying trends taking flight

EMIGRATION has ceased and people are flooding into Celtic Tiger Ireland. The country’s human population is being transformed and so is the landscape.

Irish birds doing well but worrying trends taking flight

But how are our feathered friends coping with the changing times?

Do magpies rule the roost and are swallows and song thrushes thinner on the ground, as some people claim?

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