Niall Hatch
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150 appearances
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first heard Aug 2026
last heard 25 Aug
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Within Ireland or to the continent or even further south than that.
And so things like climate change have a big impact on them.
Things like pollution disturbance in the wintering grounds is a big issue too.
We see that although a lot of our non-breeding uh waders here in Ireland where there's so much disturbance at beaches and mudflats with people letting dogs run out them and so on.
Well, that's that's happening elsewhere as well.
So that's hitting them.
Um, we're seeing obviously the effect of climate change as having an impact on the survival rates of their chicks, their ability to regulate their own body.
temperatures, their ability to forage for themselves because the the young waders are very precocious, meaning that they're very well developed when they hatch out.
And they are feeding themselves really from day one.
They're very active.
They can run around, but that that means that they're very vulnerable to changes in in if it's not like that not like they can fly away like their parents can to go and find food elsewhere.
They're they're stuck to where they can waddle around on their feet, you know, within a few meters.
And that makes a big difference too.
So all of these things hitting them at once.
It's really been
really insurmountable for them.
It's got to the stage where we know for sure that many of these breeding waiter species they can't survive in Ireland without really serious and significant human intervention and assistance.
That that that's absolutely it, because the the thing is that these birds are declining essentially because something has gone wrong in their habitat.
And if you can r fix that and you can also help them deal with these predator pressures, the pressures they have with this predation, which again it's a man made problem because when you have a situation where you have loads, thousands and thousands of breeding pairs of wagers, if a fox comes in and takes takes a few chicks somewhere in a population level it has no effect at all.
If you're down to a hundred or so pairs of curves,
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