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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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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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0:53:42

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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0:53:36

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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0:12:01

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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0:04:47

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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0:15:42

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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0:18:14

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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0:01:11

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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0:03:52

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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0:03:15

I’ll Take You Home Again, Kathleen

Mooney Goes Wild ·

2024/04/08

we discuss the impact of storms on animals and check in with our panellists to see whether they survived the meteorological onslaught.

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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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01:04:00

The Gearagh

Mooney Goes Wild ·

2024/04/08

Derek was filming for Bank from the Brink at the The Gearagh in Co. Cork during the week. While there, producer and director of the programme, our good friend Rory Cobbe, took the opportunity to speak to local resident Una Keating about the area, when what should fly overhead but their first Swallow of the year?

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0:08:47

Rainbow Trout Caviar

Mooney Goes Wild ·

2024/04/08

Terry travelled down to meet with owner Ger Kirwan and general manager Stephen Murphy-O’Sullivan under a very well-known bridge in Aughrim, Co. Wicklow, where they explained the processes involved in the rearing Rainbow Trout Caviar and also the harvesting of the eggs.

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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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0:05:51

Richard gets up close and personal with Ötzi the Iceman

Mooney Goes Wild ·

2024/04/08

Last week, Richard Collins took a trip to the Italian Alps with no fewer than seven of his grandchildren. The main purpose of their visit was to see the remains of Ötzi the Iceman, the oldest-known naturally preserved mummy in Europe.

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0:12:55

Rays, skates and sharks in Tralee Bay

Mooney Goes Wild ·

2024/04/08

Mooney Goes Wild Researcher Michele Browne met with Louise Overy, a shark expert and lecturer at MTU Kerry, they speak about the importance of Tralee Bay as a nursery ground for the above-mentioned cartilaginous fish species, about Angel Sharks, in particular, and about the hunt for Mermaid’s purses.

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0:05:18

Fisheries Society

Mooney Goes Wild ·

2024/04/08

In Co. Kerry, fishermen are leading the way in the protection of vital sea nurseries in Tralee Bay. Denis O’Shea is Manager of the Tralee Oyster Fisheries Society, and he joins us on tonight’s programme to tell us more.

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0:54:17

Mooney Goes Wild

Mooney Goes Wild ·

2024/04/08

Derek is joined by Richard Collins, Eric Dempsey, Niall Hatch, Terry Flanagan, Michele Browne and Denis O'Shea. Topics up discusion include, storms, birds, Ötzi the Iceman and marine life.

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0:05:29

Kestrels in decline

Mooney Goes Wild ·

2024/04/08

Niall Hatch tells us on tonight’s programme, the Kestrel is sadly declining in Ireland, to such an extent that it now finds itself on the Red-list of Birds of Conservation Concern in Ireland, it is nonetheless still to be found in all 32 counties on this island and is not yet a rarity here.

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0:09:20

Questions from listeners

Mooney Goes Wild ·

2024/03/04

Derek and the the panel answer your questions about the Robin, The House Martin and the House Sparrow.

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