waders are the largest and one of the most important groups of birds in Ireland. When a large group of waders, such as dunlin or golden plover, takes to the sky, they fly over the estuary as a ...
Birds of Ireland: A field guide By Jim Wilson, with photographs by Mark Carmody Featured in Birds of Ireland: A Field Guide, (Gill Books) by Jim Wilson, with photographs by Mark Carmody.
The bird in question was a four-month-old red kite, one of 27 released in Northern Ireland earlier that summer as part of a reintroduction programme led by the Royal Society for the Protection of ...