Ricky Whelan

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189 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Aug 2026 last heard 25 Aug

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

Let's talk about head starting and let's talk about very recent successes or or milestone.

We've just reached it this week.

Head starting is one of the tools available to you in the toolbox.

Let's call it that.

Yeah, exactly.

The next tool, and people don't like talking about it because it means it means valuing one animal over another one, more so.

As conservationists and and and breeding wader people and ground nesting bird people have been doing this for decades.

But if you're if you're into animal welfare, sometimes it's very hard one to balance in your own mind.

So, from a point of view, tell me about the sort of

sort of predators we're talking about that that waders encounter in Ireland and and and how how how how to deal with that or how

I I think most people can square mink being um well let's call it destroyed.

Um what they are invasive and I mean it they they you know and I suppose for years the gun clubs and angling clubs and all have been doing that.

So there is a more of a social acceptance.

But I don't think you're going away you're not going around blowing away hedgehogs, but I mean you're removing them from sites that they're

If you want curlews, you can have hooded crows as it stands in most environments.

And that the carrying capacity for curloo is just not there as it stands.

And nobody says that, but that is what's happening.

And the the the the magpies and the hooded crows are are removed.

Yes.

And and and that's how it's done.

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