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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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0:07:24

Dinosaur fish in the Dead Zoo

Mooney Goes Wild ·

2024/02/12

Our roving reporter Terry Flanagan travelled to the Natural History Museum in Dublin to speak to Keeper Paulo Viscardi about the large sturgeon specimen on display in the museum, originally caught in the River Liffey.

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0:07:54

Great Tits are breeding earlier in the year than they...

Mooney Goes Wild ·

2024/02/12

We discuss the Great Tit, a colourful, clever and abundant bird, which range across most of Eurasia and which happen to be the most intensively studied birds in the world.

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0:02:45

Hold the front page! Frog seen in south Co. Dublin

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2024/02/12

Our panel discuss the emergence from hibernation of frogs each spring, including the factors that cause them to reappear on different dates in different parts of the country. Given the mild winter we have had, it stands to reason that frogs should be out and about over much of the country in the coming days, if they aren’t already.

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0:06:23

Salmon in trouble

Mooney Goes Wild ·

2024/02/12

Sturgeon are not the only migratory: the also travels long distances between its feeding and spawning waters. A highly celebrated species here in Ireland, sadly it is also an increasingly threatened one. As Ken tells us.

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0:54:38

Highlight Show: Mooney Goes Wild Great Big Garden...

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2024/02/05

Nature On One series on Public Holidays and Mooney Goes Wild have teamed up with BirdWatch Ireland, Ireland's largest wildlife conservation charity, to bring you our inaugural live Garden Birdwatch.

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0:14:51

Giant Penguins once roamed the beaches of New Zealand

Mooney Goes Wild ·

2024/01/29

Richard Collins speaks to Josh Davis, Digital News Editor with the Natural History Museum in London about this remarkable discovery, how these extinct giant penguins lived and how they compare to their cousins who still swim in the southern oceans today.

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0:10:00

Let’s hope the early bird catches the worm

Mooney Goes Wild ·

2024/01/29

Terry Flanagan brings us news of a pair of Blackbirds in his own garden who have already started the construction of their nest, a rather unexpected occurrence in the month of January.

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0:54:05

Mooney Goes Wild

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2024/01/29

Derek is joined by Éanna Ní Lamhna, Richard Collins, Terry Flanagan, Jim Wilson, Niall Hatch, Josh Davis and Rob Gandola. Topics up for discussion include; giant penguins, Blackbirds, Bullfinch, The Great Big Garden Bird Watch and Living Classrooms.

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0:06:34

Jim Wilson looks forward to our Great Big Garden...

Mooney Goes Wild ·

2024/01/29

Jim joins us to tell us more about what to expect on the big day and to fill us in on some of the most interesting recent avian observations at his bird table.

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0:18:08

Living Classrooms in the Garden County

Mooney Goes Wild ·

2024/01/29

Terry Flanagan visits Co. Wicklow, the Garden County of Ireland, where he meets up with local resident and wildlife expert Rob Gandola, where they discuss an exciting new project called Living Classrooms.

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0:02:46

Singing a different tune

Mooney Goes Wild ·

2024/01/29

Our panellists also discuss a bird which seems to be visiting garden bird tables and feeders with increasing frequency. The Bullfinch is a beautiful and unobtrusive little bird which especially loves to feed on flowers.

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0:23:24

Marymount Hospital

Mooney Goes Wild ·

2024/01/22

Researcher Michèle Browne travelled to Marymount University Hospital and Hospice in Cork to see an innovative programme where wildlife in is playing a key role in enhancing the well-being of patients, including those in the end-stages of life.

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0:06:21

Jays and acorns: a never-ending natural cycle

Mooney Goes Wild ·

2024/01/22

Jay's key strategy for coping with food shortages due to bad winter weather conditions is to plan ahead. Each autumn, Ireland’s Jays collect and bury vast quantities of acorns.

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0:10:22

Nature Notes from the Mooney archive

Mooney Goes Wild ·

2024/01/22

We revisit three of these Nature Notes with the people who wrote them, all of whom will be very familiar to regular Mooney Goes Wild listeners.

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0:11:29

You’re winding me up: how birds cope with winter storms

Mooney Goes Wild ·

2024/01/22

The weather here in Ireland has been pretty turbulent of late, we explore how some species of birds deal with high winds better than others, with those that feed mainly on insects and those that must spend the winter at sea generally finding it hardest.

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0:52:52

Mooney Goes Wild

Mooney Goes Wild ·

2024/01/22

Derek is joined by Éanna Ní Lamhna, Richard Collins, Terry Flanagan & Niall Hatch. Topics for discussion include birds in stormy weather, Jays, inedble insects, nature notes and wildlife playing a key role in enhancing the well-being of patients

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0:00:56

Gearing up for the Great BIG Garden Birdwatch on 5th...

Mooney Goes Wild ·

2024/01/15

Tune in to RTÉ Radio One from 15:00 this February Bank Holiday Monday to help us celebrate Ireland’s garden birds and the people who survey and conserve them, and don’t forget to let us know what you see on the day.

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0:01:21

Dublin's urban Otter is still in residence

Mooney Goes Wild ·

2024/01/15

Terry brings us an update on this magnificent mustelid, which is still thrilling visitors to the busy city park with its spectacular swimming displays and its "otterly" unusual tameness around humans.

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0:41:32

Green Hydrogen

Mooney Goes Wild ·

2024/01/15

November saw European Hydrogen Week, which gave us the opportunity to speak to Jorgo Chatzimarkakis, CEO of Hydrogen Europe about this exciting new fuel option and what it could mean for our planet.

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0:05:51

Cattle Egret feeding on a city street

Mooney Goes Wild ·

2024/01/15

While on holiday on the Canary Island of Lanzarote recently, our RTÉ colleague Brian Lally sent us a very interesting video he filmed of a bird called a Cattle Egret collecting cockroaches. Terry and Niall discuss these fascinating long-necked, long-legged birds.

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