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  • How a Cormorant Takes Off From Water, Phalacrocorax carbo in Connemara, Ireland

    Cormorants are large seabirds well adapted to swimming and diving. You'll often see them floating, almost submerged on the sea, a river or a lake or standing on rocks with wings outstretched

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  • Herring Gull, Larus Argentatus Gliding Over the Stormy Atlantic in Ireland - Faoileán scadán

    The much-maligned herring gull, Larus argentatus which is known in Irish as Faoileán scadán, seen here soaring and gliding above stormy waves on the Atlantic off the

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  • Razorbill Pair, Alca torda, Black, White and Yellow - Isle of Mull, Scotland

    The razorbill is a native seabird to Ireland and to Scotland which is where this image is from, over on Mull just up the coast from my home county of Antrim right in the north east corner of

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  • Guillemots Gathered in their Masses

    A recent visit to the coast brought me to a seabird sanctuary where I photographed many types of wild birds including puffins, razorbills, ...

  • Fantastic Fulmar in Flight, Fulmarus glacialis in Ireland

    The fulmar Fulmarus glacialis is not a native bird to Ireland, although it is now resident here all year round having first been recorded on the island in 1911.

    It is similar

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  • The Irish Honeybee, Apis mellifera mellifera

    The Irish honeybee Apis mellifera mellifera is Ireland's only native honeybee, it's a bee with a dark abdomen and is also known as the European dark bee.

    Seen here in late

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  • 14-Spot Ladybird Propylea quattuordecimpunctata in Ireland

    One of the few yellow ladybirds to be found in Ireland is the 14-spot ladybird Propylea quattuordecimpunctata which, like most ladybirds, feasts on the gardener's enemy -

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  • Bumblebee Bombus lucorum on Rosemary Flowers

    We might be restricted right now from moving too far from home but if you have a garden, balcony or window box then and some flowers then the chances are you have bees visiting.

    Here the

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  • Otter of the River Suir

    An interesting sight that you often won't see in Ireland, the elusive Eurasian otter has been on the IUCN Red List for some time, classified as Near Threatened and a species in

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  • Dunes of Dublin Bay - Biosphere

    Dublin Bay is a UNESCO Biosphere - a protected area designated important for wildlife.

    Since 1981 the beach and dunes, pictured here, at Bull Island

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  • Greylag Geese on the Green Irish Shore

    The greylag goose Anser anser is not a common sight in Ireland yet in some of the wetlands around the country it is possible to see these majestic birds like here with

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  • The Irish Donkey

    No journey through the west of Ireland can be complete without seeing one of the most characterful sights of the Irish countryside, the Irish Donkey.

    Here on a recent photo tour by

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  • Mad March Hare / Easter Bunny

    Seen throughout the year, the Irish hare is most visible in the spring months when it leaps and bounds, twists and turns, flashing across the green fields of the Irish countryside as seen in this

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  • Photographing Pine Martens in Ireland

    The elusive pine marten (martes martes) is the rarest of Ireland's mammals and along with our smallest, the pygmy shrew, is the one that most people are least likely to have

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