Eoghan Murphy
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 27 Jul
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I hope that answers your question in a long-winded way.
Yeah, of course you worry about it.
I suppose it's like your teenager has gone off to the disco.
It's only human nature you'd worry a bit.
It boils down to this thing of trying to get them integrated into wild populations.
Head-starting has, you know, it's a relatively new technique in conservation, but it has been ongoing in the UK for quite a number of years now.
And as I said earlier, we've been doing it for quite a number of years in Ireland.
Like, fledged wild birds, it's not just if you have a wild bird and it fledges, then it's safe and it lives to be an adult.
Like, there is a mortality rate that is relatively high in wild birds.
And we will probably see that the same in...
in head-started birds but what we're not seeing is that all our head-started birds you know are all getting predated or none of them are surviving and i suppose this year to see some of these head-started birds from previous years coming back to breeding grounds acting like adults pairing up with either on a male or female depending on on the sex of what we released
incubating eggs and rearing chicks.
I mean, that's sort of the ultimate this bird has now expressed itself as a wild bird.
And we're hoping that that happens.
I mean, these birds will know roost sites and if they can get in with post-breeding flocks,
All waders do, well, most waders do anyway.
They form these post-breeding flocks safely in numbers.
And I suppose that the adult birds or the most senior birds in those flocks may decide where do we go to feed, where do we go to roost, where are we safer.
And if they're in a flock of, you know, Carl, you could be in a flock of 30 or 40 birds.
If one of those birds sees a mink or one of those birds sees a flock, you will hope that that...
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