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Goose gymnastics, East Cork - Pink-footed Goose does a somersault while a bemused Mute Swan looks on. #Birds

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Great White Egret in flight

One of several Great White Egrets currently at The Gearagh, Co. Cork. Regular winter visitors now, surely they will stay and breed sometime in the not so distant future. #Birds #IrishBirding

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It was a pleasant surprise to come across this Pink-footed Goose in East Cork yesterday - a scarce winter visitor to Ireland from the Arctic Tundra. #Birds #BirdsSeenIn2025 #phonescoped

Cormorant with a perch in its beak.

Fine Catch!
Cormorant with Perch at The Lough, Cork.
#Birds #Cork

Snipe?

Ring-necked Duck on a lake, showing the white ring on the bill tip and white at base.

1st winter male Ring-necked Duck at Castlemartyr Lake, East Cork, 22/10/25.
#Rare #BirdsSeenIn2025 #Birds #IrishBirding

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Great White Egret with a Grey Heron behind it.

Great White Egret at Cuskinny Marsh Nature Reserve with a local Grey Heron who appears surprisingly tolerant of this exotic visitor! #birds @birdwatchireland.bsky.social @limosawit.bsky.social

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If at first you don't succeed ..
In the rain yesterday at Harper's Island, a Hooded Crow eventually drives a Sparrowhawk away from the small wader that the Sparrowhawk had just caught.
@IslandWetlands @BirdWatchIE #phonescoped #kleptoparasitism @birds

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Small Warbler perched on a branch.

Small warbler perched on a branch.

The lovely Northern Parula on the Beara Peninsula yesterday - a great find by Kieran Grace and only the 4th Irish record of this vagrant N. American warbler. #Rare #Birds #BirdsSeenIn2025

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Isabelline Wheatear standing on seaweed on a beach - a rare vagrant to Ireland, much paler than the commoner Northern Wheatear.

The Isabelline Wheatear at Ballinclamper, Co. Waterford, today. #birds #rare #BirdsSeenIn2025

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Shoveler male moulting from eclipse plumage, head feathers a little disheveled. US spelling of disheveled deliberately used to reflect the single "l' in Shoveler.😉

Slightly disheveled Shoveler
#Birds

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Wheatear perched on a rock.

Northern Wheatear, Ballycotton- stopping off here for a rest and a feed before continuing on his annual migration to overwinter in Africa. #Birds

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A pair of Migrant Hawker dragonflies mating, forming a wheel shape.

Migrant Hawker mating wheel at The Gearagh, Co. Cork. 23/09/25
#Dragonflies #IrishNature @johncreedon.bsky.social

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The beautifully iridescent Glossy Ibis.

Glossy Ibis at The Gearagh, Co. Cork - part of the recent large influx into Britain and Ireland. #BirdsSeenIn2025 #Birds @johncreedon.bsky.social

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Subadult Heermann's Gull in winter plumage perched on a rock - a large gull with a red beak, grey mottling on its head and a dark grey back.

The distinctive Heermann's Gull, seen on our pelagic trip off Vancouver Island #Birds #BirdsSeenIn2025 #Gulls

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The Irish name for Lapwing is Pilibín - said to be named after King Philip of Spain who wore a feather in his cap.

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