Yes, but are there going to be military age males among them?
Brilliant news, another excellent project. The red kite reintroduction has been a great success, you now see them all around the Wicklow Mountains.
More good news stories like this please.
There is one in Swords today!
Just as they’re about to go extinct in Wales if the WRU keep fucking up…
Will they pose any danger to our native rugby players?
I love news regarding reintroduction of wildlife into regions they once went extinct.
the wolf should be reintroduced as well. time and time again you hear about the overpopulation of deer etc. they’re a very misunderstood animal. they stay well away from humans and they are instinctively terrified of us. it would be amazing to reintroduce them
There has been a huge collapse in numbers of native birds in the past few years and some of this has to be due to the explosion of buzzard numbers. Am I the only one worried that if you keep on introducing Apex predators into a vulnerable ecosystem we are going to have undesired consequences?
…why?
Bringing them over from Scotland?
151 years after they became extinct in Ireland, last remaining newly re-introduced osprey found poisoned.
I’m honestly shocked they’re even allowing us to give this a shot because the farmers always kill off newly re-introduced birds of prey.
Fantastic news
Man those eu fishing quotas don’t apply to anyone but the honest Irish working man huh
Ospreys are generally monogamous, and there’s a breeding pair that always raise chick’s on a certain piling at our beach. I like to grab my binoculars and watch them hunt and occasionally get into a scuffle with a bald eagle
Great news. I wonder how long before the fishermen say they are eating all the fish and start poisoning them, like the farmers did with the Eagles saying they were taking all the lambs.
I’ve seen an osprey in Ireland, admittidly I think i was a bird from Scotland migrating to France for winter. But does the bird have to be resident to be considered not extinct?
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Yes, but are there going to be military age males among them?
Brilliant news, another excellent project. The red kite reintroduction has been a great success, you now see them all around the Wicklow Mountains.
More good news stories like this please.
There is one in Swords today!
Just as they’re about to go extinct in Wales if the WRU keep fucking up…
Will they pose any danger to our native rugby players?
I love news regarding reintroduction of wildlife into regions they once went extinct.
the wolf should be reintroduced as well. time and time again you hear about the overpopulation of deer etc. they’re a very misunderstood animal. they stay well away from humans and they are instinctively terrified of us. it would be amazing to reintroduce them
There has been a huge collapse in numbers of native birds in the past few years and some of this has to be due to the explosion of buzzard numbers. Am I the only one worried that if you keep on introducing Apex predators into a vulnerable ecosystem we are going to have undesired consequences?
…why?
Bringing them over from Scotland?
151 years after they became extinct in Ireland, last remaining newly re-introduced osprey found poisoned.
I’m honestly shocked they’re even allowing us to give this a shot because the farmers always kill off newly re-introduced birds of prey.
Fantastic news
Man those eu fishing quotas don’t apply to anyone but the honest Irish working man huh
Ospreys are generally monogamous, and there’s a breeding pair that always raise chick’s on a certain piling at our beach. I like to grab my binoculars and watch them hunt and occasionally get into a scuffle with a bald eagle
Great news. I wonder how long before the fishermen say they are eating all the fish and start poisoning them, like the farmers did with the Eagles saying they were taking all the lambs.
I’ve seen an osprey in Ireland, admittidly I think i was a bird from Scotland migrating to France for winter. But does the bird have to be resident to be considered not extinct?
Extinct – no longer in existence.
This is like a Sun article!