New habitats of the Irish brent

THE Wild Geese left Ireland to enlist in foreign armies after the wars of the 1690s.

Now another wave of geese is fattening up, laying on fats for their great journey, one which they undertake each year when they head northwards to their breeding grounds.

Greylag geese will travel to Iceland. The whitefronts of the Wexford Slobs will do likewise, stopping off there on their way to Greenland. The barnacle geese of our western seaboard also breed in Greenland.