Niall Hatch

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In Your Nature · In Your Nature Ep 59 - Breeding Waders EIP · 25 Aug 2026 podcast

But that's kind of hiding the fact that actually the ones that the few species that breed here in Ireland are actually doing really badly.

And they're a real s cause for concern.

Uh so it's really important now that they're getting finally they they're starting to get the attention that they deserve.

And hopefully it's not too late.

Hopefully we can save some of these species.

Well, uh there's many reasons.

I think that really it can all boil down to us humans though, if you want, like the the the the short and and sharp answer to it.

Uh but the big thing that's affecting them, well, it it's it's loss of habitat.

That's the case for so many of our birds, but the breeding wagers are so specific in the habitat that they need that that really has brought them to the brink because the Irish landscape has changed really beyond all recognition in just the space of a few decades.

Uh we've gone from a situation where where the curlew was once quite recently

Within our lifetimes, a relatively widespread and abundant bird, and it's gone down to to to just, you know, uh barely a hundred pairs or or so around the country.

It's just sort of slipped under the radar because they breed in big open expanses, they've been very hard to monitor.

And things like coniferous plantations or roads, or even things like electricity pylons encroaching on the space where they are, telegraph poles as well, that allow predators uh this the the opportunity to

scan and watch or to creep up on their prey.

I think that's been very significant for a lot of those birds.

Also the changes in agriculture, a lot of these birds they can't really cope with just the silage monoculture.

Um and that's but that's been a big issue.

But then when you couple that with the fact that many of these birds, even the ones that breed here in Ireland, they are migratory to at least some extent.

We still don't fully know the the movements that these birds make, but they d they don't spend their time or their whole year in the breeding areas generally.

They are moving either

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