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Posted on September 5, 2018September 1, 2018

Extinct in Ireland, September 5th, the Barberry Carpet Moth – last seen in Clonmel!

Continuing a month of postings on species extinct in Ireland since the coming of humans, the first insect of this series and a moth last found in Clonmel – the barberry…

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Posted on September 4, 2018September 1, 2018

Extinct in Ireland, September 4th, the Bittern

My rather melancholy September project continues.  Another bird today, this time the bittern. From “Whittled Away”: Eaten in Medieval times, it nested in undisturbed wetlands until the mid 1800s. Winter…

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Posted on September 2, 2018September 1, 2018

Extinct in Ireland: September 2, the wolf

Extinct in Ireland continues! From Padraic Fogarty’s “Whittled Away” Wolf: Widespread and probably abundant in Ireland until a concerted extermination programme finished off the last one in the late 1700s. I…

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Posted on September 1, 2018

Extinct in Ireland: September 1st, the sturgeon

I’ve been reading Pádraic Fogarty’s “Whittled Away: Ireland’s Vanishing Nature”. It’s a sobering read, puncturing the fond illusion that many Irish have that their homeland is some kind of environmental paradise,…

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