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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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In this special one-hour Mooney Goes Wild documentary, we delve into the history of Dürer's Rhinoceros.
We visit locations from the Cliffs of Moher in Co. Clare to the Westman Islands, off the southwestern coast of Iceland, to explore the beauty and astonishing adaptations of the Puffins, as well as to see how conservationists are trying to turn the tide so that these unique creatures can have a future.
Kicking of out first Series of Summer Docs, we look into the world of the Cuckoo. Produced and Presented by Derek Mooney- first broadcasted, Aug 2018
Derek is joined by Richard Collins, Terry Flanagan and Michèle Browne. Topics up for discussion include Bees, Otters, Sand Martins and an exhibition at the National Botanic Gardens.
We dispatched our roving reporter Terry Flanagan to a Bee Identification Workshop at Baltyboys House in Blessington, Co. Wicklow, organised by Brian Murray of microWild, a project to promote and create biodiversity meadows.
Listener Denis Crone got in touch with us recently, asking for our help. He has a goldfish pond in his garden in Saggart, Co Dublin and recently he discovered that all of his fish had been killed by an Otter. We duly dispatched Terry Flanagan to check out the pond and to provide some advice.
Derek and Richard talk to Jim Wilson and Alan Farrell of the Cork Branch of BirdWatch Ireland about the artificial Sand Martin nesting bank constructed at Harper’s Island Wetlands in Co. Cork.
Michèle Browne speaks to Joseph Lynch, a guide at the National Botanic Gardens and organiser of Stories from the Gardens exhibition.
Derek is joined by Eric Dempsey, Richard Collins, Éanna Ní Lamhna and Michele Browne, with reports by Terry Flanagan & Niall Hatch.
Sunday 5th May was International Dawn Chorus Day, and to celebrate this important date in the natural history calendar the Mooney Goes Wild team once again brought listeners across Ireland and the world a live seven-hour celebration of Irish birdsong.
On Monday 6th May, in a special collaboration with the National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS), we gave our listeners an unprecedented opportunity to get up close and personal with one of Ireland’s most fascinating yet least well-known birds, the Chough.
Sam Bayley of NPWS last year, placed satellite tags on 4 adult male as part of the Irish Cuckoo Tracking Project. Sam discusses with Niall how these three Cuckoos got on.
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.
If you have ever wanted to know more about the appearance of gossamer, whether sea snakes could be encountered in Irish waters, tand much more, be sure to listen!
On a recent stroll along the Grand Canal in Dublin, Derek and Richard spotted a Cormorant. They are famous for holding their open wings out perpendicular to their bodies. It is often claimed that they are "hanging their wings out to dry, but there is also evidence to show that holding their wings out may also aid Cormorants in digesting their food.
Our roving reporter Terry Flanagan travelled to the campus of University College Cork, where he spoke to BirdWatch Ireland’s Dr. Alan McCarthy about a pair of Ravens that are nesting in a pine tree in the university grounds.
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.
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.
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.
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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