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Birder & Hobby Photographer in the West of Ireland, working in a native Forest. Post pictures of birds, nature & landscapes encountered on my travels.
Interested in nature and the environment around the world.
All pictures my own unless otherwise stated.
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Yeah they’re great. I’m lucky enough to see them most days and they never fail to entertain
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😃 They are from the family of Kinglets and Firecrests but we call them Goldcrests around here.
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Cormorants have always been comfortable in deep water; whether salt or freshwater. They are more common on the coast but breed inland, their close relatives Shags would be more specific to the coast. There’s a large Cormorant colony on Bunlicky lake near the Limerick tunnel
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I do think there have been positives for nature and biodiversity in recent years. The corncrake project being a great example. Timeline would be a concern though
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That’s true. I just hope the emphasis is on native woodland. And 2050 is a long way from now; particularly when you consider any reintroduction would take time to establish also.
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Of course if we rewilded the uplands en masse we would increase habitat greatly and reduce conflict with livestock as they wouldn’t be there anymore.
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18% forest cover is quite ambitious and still no guarantee of success. I think psychologically wolves would be a much harder sell though and their adaptability would also make them likely to target livestock; which would cause huge political problems.
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Interesting. Whichever predators we reintroduce, step one is improvement and extension of wild habitat and the only thing stopping that is ourselves.
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Lynx. They’re shy, deer specialists, don’t attack humans. We would need to increase the habitat to make it viable but not by anywhere near as much as we would for Wolves.
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Another one I learned recently; birds you refer to as Loons in the US and Canada we simply call Divers.
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Yeah I believe birds of the genus Buteo are referred to as Buzzards in Eurasia and Africa and Hawks in the Americas. Medium sized, stocky raptors; I’ll try to remember to give them both names in future for a worldwide audience!
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One of the traditional songs performed for the Wren today:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nW9x...