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Interfering with swans during nesting season is a criminal offence
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Data from swifts who fly 10,000km from Africa to these shores tells a remarkable story
The clock is ticking to save the curlew
‘Without action, the curlew will be extinct as a breeding species in Ireland within a decade’
Storm Emma brought us the regular refugees from winter cold
Another Life: Michael Viney on tired birds, bitter temperatures and climate chaos
Birdwatching for beginners: change your life a feather at a time
You don’t need to spend lots of money or grow a beard to appreciate birds
Europe’s big freeze sends flocks of waxwings to Ireland
Exotic birds seen in unusually high numbers along coast from Antrim to Wexford
When the white swallows come back to Tacumshin
The Wexford lake in autumn is a prime staging post for thousands of Ireland’s migrating swallows, house martins and sand martins
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Eric Dempsey’s new book, ‘Don’t Die in Autumn’, is an honest, joyous account of life as a birdwatcher
‘Here, come look at the birds,’ Ma says. Fifty years later, I’m still looking
Don’t Die in Autumn is Eric Dempsey’s account of his lifelong love of birds and deep sense of wonder at the natural world’s magic that first took flight as a toddler in Finglas
An app that knows its curlew call from its blackbird song
In city or in forest, an ingenious app gives you the lowdown on warblers known and unknown
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