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Posted on May 6, 2019May 6, 2019

David Monacchi: “Fragments of Extinction”, the sounds of vanishing nature

With the prospect of mass extinction in the news, it seems a good time to reflect on the loss of soundscapes. In Ireland, the corncrake and the curlew were once…

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Posted on September 28, 2018September 28, 2018

Clonmel top pollinator-friendly town in Ireland

Or, more specifically, Clonmel won the top pollinator prize in the TidyTowns awards.  As readers may have noticed, September has been the month of commemorating species lost in Ireland since the coming…

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Posted on September 26, 2018September 15, 2018

Extinct in Ireland, September 26th, Large copper (Lycaena Dispar)

The first butterfly to feature on the melancholy month of Irish extinctions is the Large Copper Another permanent Irish extinction is the Straffan Butterfly Farm which is now permanently closed.…

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Posted on September 12, 2018September 11, 2018

Extinct in Ireland September 12th – Spiral Chalk Moss (Pterygoneurum lamellatum)

Moving from yesterday’s flower, the meadow saxifrage, to a moss species no longer found in Ireland. The demise of “mud capped stone walls”, as outlined below, is another example of…

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Posted on September 11, 2016

No green to be seen: a biodiversity desert on Slievenamon

Two weeks ago I walked on Slievenamon, not all the way to the summit but simply up the path near Kilcash and then around the area just where this path…

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Posted on July 16, 2016

Three a girl … – the return of magpies

I have blogged here and here about the relative lack of magpies in my garden. As is probably obvious, I have recently been in Donegal and in the last week was away again. So my focus…

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Posted on June 28, 2016June 28, 2016

Falling Back in Love With Biodiversity data submitting

I posted a while back about my reservations about submitting biodiversity data. I hoped it was clear from that this was more a  personal reservation about a certain habit of…

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Posted on June 1, 2016

On submitting biodiversity data

Recently – on  International Day for Biological Diversity to be exact – I blogged about the various events going on and my own participation in submitting data records to the National Biodiversity Data…

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