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Terry Flanagan

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
42 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

Mooney Goes Wild
Counting Rooks

They're a very social bird.

Mooney Goes Wild
Counting Rooks

Explain what's happening there.

Mooney Goes Wild
Counting Rooks

Now, they're all flying around, right?

Mooney Goes Wild
Counting Rooks

And more than that even, because I know that they can recognise human faces.

Mooney Goes Wild
Counting Rooks

Lots of studies have been done on that.

Mooney Goes Wild
Counting Rooks

Is one of the reasons for their success that they're closely associated with humans?

Mooney Goes Wild
Counting Rooks

They seem to follow humans.

Mooney Goes Wild
Counting Rooks

Whereas they like to nest in trees, we wouldn't consider them a woodland bird.

Mooney Goes Wild
Counting Rooks

They are all grouped together here in this rookery.

Mooney Goes Wild
Counting Rooks

We're saying something like 16 or 17.

Mooney Goes Wild
Counting Rooks

We've looked at one or two rookeries already which have had even more nests than that.

Mooney Goes Wild
Counting Rooks

What happens when it comes to territory for the birds?

Mooney Goes Wild
Counting Rooks

But the nesting, they're nesting very, very close together, within, certainly within half a metre.

Mooney Goes Wild
Counting Rooks

So their territory then, is that half a metre?

Mooney Goes Wild
Counting Rooks

or half a metre squared or cubed?

Mooney Goes Wild
Counting Rooks

We're listening to them here all of the time, that very distinctive caw, caw, which is again the Irish name.

Mooney Goes Wild
Counting Rooks

Would you call this singing or do they sing?

Mooney Goes Wild
Counting Rooks

Looking at them as well here too, both sexes are the same.