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Mooney Goes Wild

Derek Mooney and guests explore the natural world in all its forms. Listen live every Monday at 10pm on RTÉ Radio 1.

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Back from the Brink: RTÉ One television at 18:30 on...

Mooney Goes Wild ·

2024/05/13

The second episode of the series will be broadcast this coming Sunday 19th May at 18:30 on RTÉ One television. Derek looks at the lengths taken in northern Sweden to control the Raccoon Dog invasion, Rathlin Island's rat problem and the comeback of badgers in The Netherlands.

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0:52:14

Mooney Goes Wild

Mooney Goes Wild ·

2024/05/13

Derek is joined by Eric Dempsey, Richard Collins, Éanna Ní Lamhna and Michele Browne, with reports by Terry Flanagan & Niall Hatch.

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0:05:51

Eric Dempsey discusses the singing stars of Wicklow’s...

Mooney Goes Wild ·

2024/04/29

Researcher Michele Browne paid a visit to the East Coast Nature Reserve, where Eric gave her a sneak peek at some of the key avian singing stars he hopes to showcase on the Dawn Chorus . . . including, with a bit of luck, the skulking Grasshopper Warbler and the handsome Reed Bunting.

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0:10:58

Nesting drama in Co. Meath

Mooney Goes Wild ·

2024/04/29

Our roving reporter Terry Flanagan paid a visit to a listener called Margaret Nangle, who has a pre-school in Summerhill, Co. Meath. For many years now, the school has had a nestbox with a camera.

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0:05:44

WildMind in Kerry and Scops Owls in France

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2024/04/29

Niall Hatch is not in studio this week; he’s in the village of Fenit on the shores of Tralee Bay in Co. Kerry. He is at the WildMind festival, a celebration of environmentalism, conservation, sustainability and the natural world, he tells us more about the nature-themed festivities.

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0:01:49

ChoughWatch 2024

Mooney Goes Wild ·

2024/04/29

On Monday 6th May, in a special collaboration with the National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS), we will give RTÉ Radio One listeners an unprecedented opportunity to get up close and personal with one of Ireland’s most fascinating yet least well-known birds, the Chough.

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0:07:58

Flora, Fauna . . . and Funga

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2024/04/29

Giuliana Furci, Founding Director of the Fungi Foundation, an associate of Harvard University and a National Geographic Explorer speaks to Éanna all about fungi, fascinating and crucially important organisms that are neither plant nor animal.

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0:06:02

A quick audio guide to Cuskinny Marsh

Mooney Goes Wild ·

2024/04/29

One of our presenters of the Dawn Chorus, naturalist, author and proud Corkonian Jim Wilson, gives us an overview of some of the species he hopes to bring us during the broadcast.

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0:14:02

Looking forward to the Dawn Chorus: Sunday 5th May 2024

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2024/04/29

International Dawn Chorus Day will take place on Sunday 5th May, and this year the Mooney Goes Wild team will again be bringing it to listeners across Ireland, the world a celebration of Irish birdsong from midnight through to 7:00am on RTÉ Radio One, in a simulcast with RTÉ Lyric FM. We look forward to the biggest radio event in the natural world.

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0:53:31

Mooney Goes Wild

Mooney Goes Wild ·

2024/04/29

Derek is joined by Richard Collins, Éanna Ní Lamhna, Terry Flanagan Niall Hatch Jim Wilson, Eric Dempsey and Michele Browne. Topics up for disucssion, The Dawn Chorus, Wildmind in Kerry, Choughwatch 2024, Fungi and nesting.

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0:53:42

The Magpie

Mooney Goes Wild ·

2024/04/22

THIS PROGRAMME IS A REPEAT... The Magpie is much maligned. Biologist Terry Flanagan debunks some of myths and asks just why we have such strong feelings about this beautiful and intelligent creature.

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0:04:47

Hooded Crow nesting strategies

Mooney Goes Wild ·

2024/04/15

Derek and Richard came upon a rather untidy nest, high on an electricity pylon. It was the nest of a pair of Hooded Crows, we learn all about the nesting habits of these widespread and familiar Irish birds.

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0:01:11

Let’s talk about birds

Mooney Goes Wild ·

2024/04/15

Niall tells us about a talk on the topic of Irish Garden Birds that he gave to Bray Active Retirement Association in Co. Wicklow.

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0:12:01

Getting to know one of our rarest insects, the Great...

Mooney Goes Wild ·

2024/04/15

Margaret Tallot, co author of An Bhumbóg Mór Bhuí dicusses her new book which is all about the Great Yellow Bumblebee.

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0:18:14

Ireland’s Garden Birds

Mooney Goes Wild ·

2024/04/15

As mentioned above, as part of his work for BirdWatch Ireland, our very own Niall Hatch recently gave a talk all about Ireland’s Garden Birds to the members of the Bray Active Retirement Association in Co. Wicklow. We are pleased to bring you a portion of Niall’s talk

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0:15:42

Queries from our listeners

Mooney Goes Wild ·

2024/04/15

Our researcher Michele Browne brings us a selection of the natural history questions that you have posed to our expert panellists. Including a sick Greenfinch.

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0:53:36

Mooney Goes Wild

Mooney Goes Wild ·

2024/04/15

Derek is joined by Richard Collins, Éanna Ní Lamhna Niall Hatch, Michele Browne and Margaret Tallot. Topics up for discussion inclube birds, quiries from listeners, Dawn Chorus and the Great Yellow Bumblebee.

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0:04:20

One Swallow does not a summer make . . . quite clearly!

Mooney Goes Wild ·

2024/04/08

Despite the inclement weather, the past weekend saw an influx of migrant birds into Ireland, and leading the charge were some of our first Sand Martins and Swallows of the season.

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0:03:52

Cetti's Warbler

Mooney Goes Wild ·

2024/04/08

Eric Dempsey recently had the good fortune of seeing and hearing one a Cetti's Warbler at BirdWatch Ireland’s East Coast Nature Reserve in Newcastle, Co. Wicklow.

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0:03:37

Could a South American Creamy-bellied Thrush be...

Mooney Goes Wild ·

2024/04/08

Brilliant though it is, Merlin still makes mistakes, as we learn courtesy of an erroneous report we received of a Creamy-bellied Thrush, a species usually confined to South America. As our panellists explain on tonight’s programme, we can be absolutely certain that it is impossible for one of these New World songbirds to turn up in Ireland.

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