Quite a few Wheatear around the Healy Pass yesterday. Always lovely seeing the first of these southern African migrants each year #spring #migration #CoCork

Birds of Prey: Listen back to Irene O'Brien National Parks and Wildlife Service as she talks about 'Peregrine Falcons to Red Kites – spotting our native birds of prey' on TODAY WITH CLAIRE BYRNE RTÉ Radio 1
Irene is NPWS District Conservation Officer for Co Mayo

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Ah the romance of releasing balloons, what a way to show how much you care 🙄 This one arrived on the island just over a week ago, about a month after Valentine's Day #WashedUpOnRathlin #balloonsblow #2minutebeachclean

Peregrine falcons: NPWS has installed three web cams (under licence) and a nest tray at Clonakilty Parish Church #CoCork to study the resident pair of Peregrines. The cameras are not livestream but updates and clips are being shared on a special page: facebook.com/profile.php?id…

Chough courtship at #nestflix Watch as the male feeds the female as part of their courtship ritual #pairbonding It's only over the last 2 days that we've witnessed this behaviour on camera. A sign that they're close to laying? Stay tuned in to find out! youtube.com/live/yMnvzd356…

On the flip side, 51 young have now been fledged in the wild. No of fledged young crashed in 2018+ due to the loss of 2 most productive females to bird flu but is increasing again. One Irish bred female fledged 10 young in 4 years since 2020 and no of pairs is up to 16 in 2014

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Grim reading but this brings to 60 the no of WTEs found dead here since reintros began in 2007. Shooting is particularly heinous but rel rare (7%) while poisoning is the no 1 killer (25%)

Rare white-tailed eagle found dead in Co Roscommon rte.ie/news/connacht/…

I can't believe I find myself in the position to share this with you, but here is what I believe to be the first Irish sound recording of a Golden Eagle!

It begins with a husky chattering from an angry Peregrine which was warding it off, & the eagle sounds like a yappy terrier!

Another new project started this year. Grey Heron is a Qualifying Interest for Cork Harbour SPA so we are targeting heronries around the harbour to get information on dispersal, longevity and how individuals use the estuary BTO National Parks and Wildlife Service BirdWatch Ireland EURING

A very happy St Patrick’s Day from Glengarriff Woods Nature Reserve! A special trio of Irish plants grow here (pictured): St Patrick’s Cabbage (Saxifraga × polita), 'Shamrock' aka Wood Sorrel (Oxalis acetosella) and Irish Ivy (Hedera hibernica) #LáFhéilePádraig #StPatricksDay

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'Tá an tSeirbhís Páirceanna Náisiúnta agus Fiadhúlra ag fiosrú bás iolair mharat i ndeisceart Chontae Ros Comáin inné.' #iolarmara

White-tailed Sea Eagle update: Last year's Glengarriff chick (pictured aged 9 weeks) is now in Co Kerry but he spent some of the winter in Roaringwater Bay, Co Cork. One day he was joined briefly by his sibling Cuileann, who fledged in 2022 (see image of their tracks 3/11/23).

Listen back to Clare Heardman, District Conservation Officer with the National Parks and Wildlife Service, discussing two new livestream nest cams exploring the changing nesting habits of the scarce Chough on RTÉ Morning Ireland #CoCork #nestflix

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Choughed to see not one, but two new National Parks and Wildlife Service nest cams go live today! Streaming from two locations in #WestCork , #Nestflix will have nature lovers on the edge of their seats as they follow the fortunes of two chough pairs preparing to mate, lay and fledge their young. 🍿📺

LIVE! Follow two pairs of West Cork chough on livestream nest cams installed by NPWS. At the moment they're nest-building but we hope to follow their progress from laying to fledging chicks.

Thanks to Alan McCarthy, Jason Fathers & the landowners whose buildings the chough nest in.

Chough nest cam: watch this space! National Parks and Wildlife Service has installed a livestream camera in a chough box in a barn #westcork Another chough cam is being installed in a cattle shed. They are due to go live soon. Thanks to Alan McCarthy BirdWatch Ireland & Jason Fathers, Wildlife Windows UK.