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Birding in Nigeria
Dr. Mark Wilson, a post-doctoral researcher at BEES, with broad interests in animal behaviour, bird biology, forest ecology and conservation writes from Nigeria: I’ve been in Nigeria for just over a week now, and though I am without a … Continue reading
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Burren Fieldtrip 2012
Rebecca Neal describes the fieldcourse on Landscape Conservation and Management (AE4012) based in The Burren. We spent the first week of term on a fieldtrip to the Burren, Co. Clare. The first day was spent looking at the geology and … Continue reading
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River Management and Restoration in Spain
Four BEES PhD students (Fergus Mc Auliffe, Ruth Enright, Lucas Jagodzinski and Maria Kirrane) took part in the Erasmus Life Long Learning intensive research program “River Management and Restoration in the Atlantic Arcâ€. This project took place in Cangas del … Continue reading
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Creepy Crawling Home – Algarve Diary 2012
The final day of our intense but rewarding week in the Algarve came around very quickly. by Lee-Jane Eastwood The group projects carried on from yesterday and my group returned to the dunes at Salgados to record more data for … Continue reading
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Algarve Diary 2012 – As Gaeilge
Day 5 Caoilfhionn Nà Chorrain Tosnú maith ar lá a chúig. Bhà an aimsir brea leo agus bhà an suncream amuigh linn, ag súil nach titheadh an fearthainn orainn inniu. Ag a naoi a chlog d’fhágamar an t-ostán le haghaidh … Continue reading
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Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? – Algarve Diary 2012
Day 6 By Neil Caughland, Rebecca Newman and Naomi O’Reilly. Today was the beginning of the main project for the zoologists, ecologists and plant scientists. A select few, including ourselves, chose to study the behaviour of some of the exotic … Continue reading
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Into the Mountains – Algarve Diary 2012
Day 4 (31st march) By Shazia Waheed and Sini Burdillat Today our class went to the Monchique Montains. On the way whilst travelling inland up increasing elevation, we made a number of stops to look at the different kinds of … Continue reading
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Algarve Fieldtrip Diary 2012
My name is Léan O’ Connor and I’m a third year Zoology student at UCC, who has the wonderful pleasure to be writing this from the (not so sunny at the moment) Algarve, where my class, along with Ecology and … Continue reading
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BEES student continues her study of wildlife biology on the slopes of Hawaii’s volcanoes
Susan O’Donohoe trained and worked for a number of years as a Montessori school teacher. Having completed the Diploma in Field Ecology in the School of BEES, UCC, Susan has worked with the US Forest Service in Oregon and is … Continue reading
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UCC researchers ‘crack’ the cause of pink colour in Mute Swan feathers
In a paper to be published in the international journal Wildfowl UCC researchers, describe for the first time, the cause of pink coloration in Mute swans which has been observed in many parts of Ireland, Britain and North America. ‘Symmetrical … Continue reading
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