Eoghan Murphy

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Mooney Goes Wild · Headstarting Chicks Helps Ireland's Curlew Numbers · 27 Jul 2026 podcast

genetic knowledge of an alarm call will still be in these birds.

And when one bird flushes, they'll all flush and go somewhere safely.

So again, I mean, there are certain unknowns in this, and this is why data is critical.

All these birds are going to be flagged.

We have a leg wringing and a flagging scheme, and a lot of them, a large subset of them will be GPS tagged.

So that's knowledge gathering.

And again, in another year's time, we'll know more than we do as I sit here now talking to you.

The Breeding Raider EAP will run hopefully until 2029.

That's what our budgetary forecasts are showing at the moment.

And what we agreed this year with National Parks and Wildlife Service, Department of Ag, Natural England, the Yorkshire Dales Moorland Group.

is that we will take 40 eggs from the Orchardales for five years.

So this was the first year of five years.

So it's really, really significant.

If we can keep that going, keep building our knowledge, keep building the expertise within the groups that are involved, I mean, it has to be a positive.

And we all know that ground nesting bird conservation in Ireland is not a five year, it's not five years and it's fixed.

These birds have been in decline for 40 or 50 years and it's going to take sustained effort for cycles of five or cycles of 15 years.

It would be even better to give real assurance to landowners and farmers that we're serious about this and it will take a number of cycles and then we'll see where we are.

But I mean, you're into 2040, 2050, looking into the future for these birds, I think.

Yeah, it's a number of things and unfortunately our ground nesting birds are

They're sort of struggling from a number of different angles.

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