Podcasts about mooney goes wild

In this special edition of Nature on One, celebrating thirty years of Mooney Goes Wild, Colm Flynn meets the people behind the voices and revisits some of the moments that made this nature programme a household favourite.

Would you believe that next month Mooney Goes Wild will celebrate 30 years on air?! To celebrate this landmark occasion, our good friend and acclaimed documentary-maker Colm Flynn has crafted a special documentary programme all about the show. It will be broadcast on RTÉ Radio One at 15:00 on Bank Holiday Monday, 5th May.

Mooney Goes Wild listener Roland Umanan took a stroll in Merrion Square Park and found an interesting quote from Oscar Wilde: “The birds sat on top of the trees and sang so sweetly...” So, do birds actually sit? Richard and Niall discuss.

Mid-March is when our first migrant breeding birds begin to arrive back to Ireland including the Sand Martin, Swift, Swallow, Cuckoo and Ringed Plover. We are asking Mooney Goes Wild listeners to take part in a wonderful ‘citizen science' project by reporting their first sightings of these birds.

In this repeat of a special one-hour Mooney Goes Wild documentary, we delve into the history of Dürer's Rhinoceros.

On 30th December, be sure to tune in to RTÉ Radio One between 09:00 and 11:00, when the Mooney Goes Wild team will be bringing you Winter Birds, a live programme all about the remarkable wading birds which flock to our beaches, estuaries and mudflats each winter, as well as our much loved garden birds.

All of us here in the Mooney Goes Wild team would like to extend our heartfelt congratulations to our esteemed colleague and friend Éanna Ní Lamhna, who last month was awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Science by the University of Galway.

Every Christmas, the team here at Mooney Goes Wild likes to bring you some of our recommendations for wildlife-themed gifts for your nearest and dearest. This year, we have chosen to focus on natural history books, with Derek and panel each focusing on their own preferred title and interviewing the authors.

Derek is joined by Richard Collins & Éanna Ní Lamhna. We discover the Angle Shades moth, a highly camouflaged, almost army fatigue-patterned moth.

Derek is joined by Richard Collins while Niall Hatch reports from the town of Mandelieu-La Napoule in southern France seeking out the European Bee-eater; Marc Holderied, Professor of Sensory Biology at the University of Bristol, tells us about moths; and Terry Flanagan visits the farm of Kieran Morley's where he rears snails.

Derek is joined by Éanna Ní Lamhna, Richard Collins, Terry Flanagan & Niall Hatch to discuss a rare orchid that has been rediscovered in Galway, Wings magazine, and Terry's Nature News.

Derek is joined by Éanna Ní Lamhna, Richard Collins & Niall Hatch to discuss rodenticide, harvestmen and a leatherback turtle stamp.

Derek is joined by Richard Collins, Niall Hatch and Terry Flanagan to discuss violets, sand Martins, and the undersea world

Derek is joined by Richard Collins, Niall Hatch and Terry Flanagan to discuss Meerkats, Pigeons, Natterjack Toads, the National Botanic Gardens at Glasnevin and much more

Repeat of Nature on One Eggs Presenter Niall Hatch, Producer Derek Mooney

Derek is joined by Richard Collins, Niall Hatch and Terry Flanagan to discuss Hippos, Insects, Blue Chaffinch and much more.

Derek is joined by Niall Hatch, Terry Flanagan and Richard Collins.

Derek is joined by Richard Collins, Éanna Ní Lamhna, Matthew Jebb and Reporter Terry Flanagan. Topics up for discussion include; a weeping olive tree, why are plant species so distinctive and readily identifiable, Asiatic Lion cubs in Fota Wildlife Park and Crab Spiders.

Mooney Goes Wild contributor Jim Wilson speaks to two men who have been monitoring the St. Colman falcons, Allan Farrell of BirdWatch Ireland's Cork Branch and UCC graduate and BirdWatch Ireland raptor expert, Dr. Alan McCarthy.

Derek is joined by Eric Dempsey, Niall Hatch, Jim wilson, Allen Farrell and Alan McCarthy. Topics up for discussion include the White Swallow, mystery of the missing Moth, birds regrowing missing feathers and the Peregrine Falcons.

In this special one-hour Mooney Goes Wild documentary, we delve into the history of Dürer's Rhinoceros.

Derek is joined by Richard Collins, Terry Flanagan and Michèle Browne. Topics up for discussion include Bees, Otters, Sand Martins and an exhibition at the National Botanic Gardens.

Sunday 5th May was International Dawn Chorus Day, and to celebrate this important date in the natural history calendar the Mooney Goes Wild team once again brought listeners across Ireland and the world a live seven-hour celebration of Irish birdsong.

Derek is joined by Eric Dempsey, Richard Collins, Éanna Ní Lamhna and Michele Browne, with reports by Terry Flanagan & Niall Hatch.

International Dawn Chorus Day will take place on Sunday 5th May, and this year the Mooney Goes Wild team will again be bringing it to listeners across Ireland, the world a celebration of Irish birdsong from midnight through to 7:00am on RTÉ Radio One, in a simulcast with RTÉ Lyric FM. We look forward to the biggest radio event in the natural world.

Derek is joined by Richard Collins, Éanna Ní Lamhna, Terry Flanagan Niall Hatch Jim Wilson, Eric Dempsey and Michele Browne. Topics up for disucssion, The Dawn Chorus, Wildmind in Kerry, Choughwatch 2024, Fungi and nesting.

Derek is joined by Richard Collins, Éanna Ní Lamhna Niall Hatch, Michele Browne and Margaret Tallot. Topics up for discussion inclube birds, quiries from listeners, Dawn Chorus and the Great Yellow Bumblebee.

Derek is joined by Éanna Ní Lamhna, Richard Collins Niall Hatch, Jim Wilson and Mark Carmody. Topic up for discussion include potted plants, the wildlife of Sir Lanka and bird photography.

Derek is joined by Richard Collins, Niall Hatch, Matthew Jebb, Terry Flanagan and Michele Browne. Topics up for discussion include the Island of Lambay, Duke of Wellingtons tree, Sri Lanka, Cloncrow Bog and Shamrocks.

Derek is joined by Richard Collins & Niall Hatch,T erry Flanagan, Éanna Ní Lamhna, Michele Browne Dr Roy Anderson and Rob Gandola.

Derek is joined by Richard Collins, Terry Flanagan, Niall Hatch, Éanna Ní Lamhna, Terry Flanagan and Jim Wilson. Topic up for discussion include Blue Tits, hedge cutting, Climate Heroes Challange, birds and human health, birds standing on one leg and a new year plant hunt.

Derek is joined by Éanna Ní Lamhna, Richard Collins, Terry Flanagan, Ken Whelan and Niall Hatch. Topics up for dicussion include Common Frogs, the Great Tit, Sturgeon, Salmon and grummpy Snowdrops.

Nature On One series on Public Holidays and Mooney Goes Wild have teamed up with BirdWatch Ireland, Ireland's largest wildlife conservation charity, to bring you our inaugural live Garden Birdwatch.

Derek is joined by Éanna Ní Lamhna, Richard Collins, Terry Flanagan, Jim Wilson, Niall Hatch, Josh Davis and Rob Gandola. Topics up for discussion include; giant penguins, Blackbirds, Bullfinch, The Great Big Garden Bird Watch and Living Classrooms.

We revisit three of these Nature Notes with the people who wrote them, all of whom will be very familiar to regular Mooney Goes Wild listeners.

Derek is joined by Éanna Ní Lamhna, Richard Collins, Terry Flanagan & Niall Hatch. Topics for discussion include birds in stormy weather, Jays, inedble insects, nature notes and wildlife playing a key role in enhancing the well-being of patients

Derek is joined by Éanna Ní Lamhna, Richard Collins, Michael Sheridan, Jorgo Chatzimarkakis, Terry Flanagan & Niall Hatch

Today's Mooney Goes Wild festive special is about a bird that is intimately associated in Irish tradition with St Stephen's Day: the tiny Wren. As Niall Hatch tells us on tonight's programme, these feisty little birds punch well above their weight.

On Christmas Day last year, we broadcast a Mooney Goes Wild special all about the two yuletide plants which feature in one of the most popular Christmas carols. One of the traditional Irish musicians who featured on Vanessa Williams' recording was whistle-player Cormac Breatnach. He talks to Derek Mooney and Éanna Ní Lamhna.

Derek is joined by Richard Collins, Gustavo Zoladz, Terry Flanagan, Cormac Breatnach, Éanna Ní Lamhna, Niall Hatch, Michele Browne, Andrew Byrne and Nick Coughlan. Topics for discussion include the original Christmas bird, an otter in Herbert Park and the Wren.

Derek is joined by Éanna Ní Lamhna, Researcher Michele Browne, Niall Hatch, Terry Flanagan and Richard Collins for this years Chrsitmas Special.

Derek is joined by Éanna Ní Lamhna, Richard Collins, Jim Wilson, Niall Hatch and Neuroscientist Dr Amy Courtney. Topics up for discussion include wildlife on the railways. octopuses, great spotted woodpecker, Harpers Island wetlands and Short-eared owls.

Derek is joined by Éanna Ní Lamhna, Richard Collins, Eric Dempsey, Niall Hatch & Reporter Terry Flanagan. Topics up for discussion include Wild Garlic, The Irish Garden Bird Survey, The I rish Staring Murmuration Survey and more.

Derek is joined by Éanna Ní Lamhna, Terry Flanagan and Niall Hatch. Topics up for discussion include Wild Boars, Short-ear Owls, Waxwigs and Sika's.

Derek Mooney, Eric Dempsey and Niall Hatch discuss the Wader from Dublin's Sandymount Strand, one of the most important wader habitats in the country  and find out why Ireland is so vital for their survival.

In this Mooney Goes Wild special we look at the fascinating project that is underway to reintroduce Eurasian Beavers in West London.

Derek is joined by Richard Collins, Éanna Ní Lamhna, Niall Hatch, Reporter: Terry Flanagan and Palaeontologist Dr. Tiffany Slater.

Derek is joined by Richard Collins, Éanna Ní Lamhn, Niall Hatch, Reporter: Terry Flanagan, Katriona McFadden and Johnathan Beck, project leader of Airbus Fello'fly.

For many years on Mooney Goes Wild we consistently said that there were 99 species of Bee in Ireland. These two new arrivals – the Ivy Bee and the Hairy-footed Flower Bee – have brought the Irish bee total to 101 . . . but can Éanna name them all?

Derek is joined by Richard Collins, Éanna Ní Lamhna, Niall Hatch, Reporter Terry Flanagan and Declan O'Donovan, Animal Care Manager at Cork's Fota Wildlife Park