The goosander is considered a very rare breeding duck in Ireland and Wicklow Mountains National Park staff are looking for assistance from the public in tracking their numbers, especially for ...

Anglers claim birds such as the cormorant are devastating fish stocks on Welsh rivers More than 2,000 people sign a petition calling for licences to cull fish-eating birds in Wales Anglers claim ...

St John’s Chapel, Weardale: Unlike migrating drakes, females like this one can’t simply fly off when we approach her brood on the river Outside the breeding season, goosanders are usually wary birds, ...

AN extremely rare visitor to our shores was captured in this photograph by local man Michael Guerin recently when he noticed some strange plumage among a brace of mallards on the Feale. Michael was ...

Q: I really appreciate your nature column that we see in the Bennington Banner, but this morning the photo and caption above your column has me baffled. Nowhere online or in any of my bird books do I ...

The ice-edged easterlies brought their own kind of harvest to our parish. I climbed up the Yare river bank, and there on the water were three goosander, the male a glorious mix of emerald and ...

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If you are not too averse to rising early, the hour before sunrise is a special time. On the slopes above the upper lake in Glendalough, Co Wicklow, it can be very special indeed: there is the promise ...

The Wildlife Trusts describe the goosander as a "handsome bird and a great fisher" A project to bring wildlife and people closer together at Washington Wetland Centre has seen a new site record for a ...