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Wednesday, 30 November 2016

Pink-footed Goose up close... too close?

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  Pink-footed Goose , Ballydavid, 30th November 2016 (M.O'Clery) A very confiding adult individual, sticking to the same patch of...
Tuesday, 29 November 2016

Pink-footed Goose, Ballydavid

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Pink-footed Goose , Ballydavid, 27th November 2016 (Barbie Begley). A terrific portrait of a very scarce species in Kerry with typica...
Saturday, 26 November 2016

Eric's Coumeenoole moment...

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Great account of an exciting Kerry birding moment. Days like these don't come around too often while birding Kerry headlands in autumn....
Friday, 25 November 2016

AGP at Carrahane and Dark-bellied Brent

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American Golden Plover , Carrahane, 22nd November 2016 (Kilian Kelly). American Golden Plover , Carrahane, 22nd November 2016 (Kilia...
Thursday, 17 November 2016

Recent ringed bird sightings in Kerry

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There are a increasing number of bird colour-ringing projects around Europe, and the various species sporting the bright jewellery and brac...
Tuesday, 15 November 2016

Genetic identity of Killarney Chiffchaffs

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Following from this post HERE , a paper published in the 2015 edition of Irish Birds  shows how the first record of a Chiffchaff of the rac...
Monday, 14 November 2016

AGP still at Carrahane

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Juvenile American Golden Plover , Carrahane, 12th November 2016 (Hubert Servignat). Looks like the same bird as was present at this s...
Saturday, 12 November 2016

Gulls galore at Rough Point

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Part of the large gull flock around Rough Point, 12th November 2016 (M.O'Clery). Every now and then, when currents, wind and tid...
Saturday, 5 November 2016

Singing like a Loon

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After almost a month of predominantly easterly winds throughout October, there has been something of a mass arrival of birds from the NW At...
Friday, 4 November 2016

Not in the field guides

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This pipit, feeding alone at the edge of a muddy pool at Carrahane, would make you think twice. Not only tame, but very pale, with whitish ...