Oonagh Duggan
@NatureNymph
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Limerick woman living in Laois. Nature lover who wants to leave the planet better than she found it. Head of Policy & Advocacy, BirdWatch Ireland. Views my own.
Portlaoise, Co Laois
Joined December 2009
Taking the plunge on Bluesky but not leaving here yet. Give me a follow so we can stay in touch. 🦋
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Such an Irish thing really isnt it. Cattle in the Áras. I've also liked seeing baled grass in the Phoenix Park of a later summer.
Dexter Cattle, a rare native breed, have returned to Áras an Uachtaráin. The Dexter Cattle reduce grass on the grounds ahead of the spring and summer allowing for more species to flower, benefitting nature and soil, as well as promoting the genetic diversity of Ireland’s cattle
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Spent last week in Hungary for EU-wide ‘implementation support event’ titled ‘Restoring Europe’s Threatened Grasslands’. Talks, workshops, field visits, all aimed at navigating opports & challenges in fast-changing EU policy context (Nature Restoration Regulation, new CAP, etc.)
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Graham Prole is giving a talk about Mute Swans at the Botanic Gardens tomorrow night Wed Oct 15th. Hosted by the BirdWatch Ireland Tolka Branch @dublinbirding.
TOLKA BRANCH Birdwatch Ireland Monthly Talk on Wed. 15th Oct. 2025 at 7:45PM in the Botanic Gardens Auditorium in Glasnevin, Dublin is "The Mute Swan in Dublin" by Graham Prole. The car park opens at 7:30PM and is free. @BirdWatchIE @MidlandsRinging @GrahamProle @BirdwatchDublin
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TOLKA BRANCH Birdwatch Ireland Monthly Talk on Wed. 15th Oct. 2025 at 7:45PM in the Botanic Gardens Auditorium in Glasnevin, Dublin is "The Mute Swan in Dublin" by Graham Prole. The car park opens at 7:30PM and is free. @BirdWatchIE @MidlandsRinging @GrahamProle @BirdwatchDublin
TOLKA BRANCH Birdwatch Ireland Monthly Talk on Wed. 15th Oct. 2025 at 7:45PM in the Botanic Gardens Auditorium in Glasnevin, Dublin is "The Mute Swan in Dublin" by Graham Prole. The car park opens at 7:30PM and is free. @BirdWatchIE @MidlandsRinging @GrahamProle @BirdwatchDublin
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@SteelySeabirder fluorescent beak...wonder if it's how Puffin view each other at night...eye spectrum diff than humans.... imagine if moon fluorescent to see the many plants & animals in a different "light" https://t.co/PgFQ66sTld
cbc.ca
Ornithologist Jamie Dunning had the idea to shine a UV light on a puffin in January. The results were spectacular.
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Thanks to an observant member of the public, we were recently able to assist this adult swan at Elsecar Reservoir, reported to us with a fishing hook in the webbing of bird’s foot. The hook was carefully removed, and the swan immediately returned to his family.
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How can someone forget owing €50 not to mind €3,300.
Micheál Martin says he's 'glad' Jim Gavin paid the money back to previous tenant
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And then there were two. A busy time for this ruff at White's Marsh as all the locals wander past.
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I found myself getting very angry listening to less than convincing commentary frm @InlandFisherIE @EPAIreland on @RTECountryWide abt Blackwater. No urgency whatsoever. Im wondering does govt care at all abt this river, water quality, nature @timmydooley
rte.ie
People, events and happenings around the country, presented by Philip Boucher-Hayes.
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Ploughing the field to get it ready for sowing winter wheat and this Long-eared Owl taking advantage of all the displaced mice.
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Cmmr @MarosSefcovic had a lot of reading material on the journey home.
Commissioner Maroš Šefcovic bumps into the Dealer when he was out and about around Dublin during his visit at the end of last week. Read more: https://t.co/ZbyfsPsSWN
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The emotion from the director as well as the recipient….
“Oh my god… I have no words.” Listen to the emotional moment this year’s laureate Maria Corina Machado finds out she has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Kristian Berg Harpviken, Director of the Norwegian Nobel Institute, shared the news with her directly before it was
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And why Sudan’s Emergency Response Rooms were my tip for the #nobelprize2025 for peace #EyesonSudan
🗣️ “President Trump, who claims, dubiously, to have brought about an end to seven wars, may hope that his current intervention in the Middle East will make him a contender in 2026." 📩 Read the latest newsletter from Channel 4 News' International Editor @lindseyhilsum
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.@HeaneyCentre @lindseyhilsum told us abt #EmergencyResponseRooms in Sudan. After aid agencies fled, community-led, volunteer-run networks are helping to provide humanitarian aid to civilians affected by ongoing conflict & her hope that they'd get the #NobelPrize.
Our @Channel4News story about the #Darfuri women who walked from #ElFasher to #Khartoum - the cruelty they fled and the kindness they found in the #EmergencyResponseRooms. @Zahra_ZW producing, @munksoren camera/edit https://t.co/JutGMa8MWg
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Lough Beg and Church island. A haven for wintering waterbirds and breeding waders
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In Séamus Heaney country last night to hear @lindseyhilsum speak abt war, ppl & poetry & her book ‘I brought the war with me’ @HeaneyCentre Bellaghy, Co Derry. She inscribed in her book for me the 1st line of this magnificent poem by Yehuda Amichai which she also introduced me to
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Shocking and sad to see 3 rare White-tailed Eagles killed by wind turbines in Co. Donegal. Clearly the collision risk modelling used in the planning permission application was deeply flawed in this case.
donegaldaily.com
FacebookTweetLinkedInPrint Wind turbines in Donegal have killed three white-tailed eagles in less than a year, according to the National Parks…
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‘We need to reject violence and to value other people, even if they are your enemy’ Read @lindseyhilsum on the kindness co-existing with cruelty amidst Sudan's civil war https://t.co/0bNi2phijg
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3 White tailed Eagles killed by collision with turbines bet Oct 2024/May 2025 in Donegal says @NPWSNatureCons 2 at same windfarm highlighting issues w/collision risk modelling. Windfarms need to be in the right places to avoid impacts to wild birds. https://t.co/UrGLjna8UT
donegaldaily.com
FacebookTweetLinkedInPrint Wind turbines in Donegal have killed three white-tailed eagles in less than a year, according to the National Parks…
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