Ferdia Marnell
@ferdia_marnell
Zoologist interested in Biodiversity, Wildlife, Irish Rugby, Hockey, Hurling, Amphibians, Mammals, Moths, Food. And wine. Views my own 😎
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19-06-2016 14:31:55
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We're heating up with submissions for All-Ireland Mammal Symposium 2024 (Oct 4/5 2024)! July 31st is the deadline for abstracts for talks/posters. We encourage students to submit no matter what the stage of your work, this is why we created this conference 15 years ago! sites.google.com/view/aims2024/…
🐸A special day for 500 of these tiny toads, released back to their home at Inch, in Páirc Náisiúnta na Mara Ciarraí. The Natterjack is unique to Castlegregory and Castlemaine. We've been working with Fota Wildlife Park and Oceanworld Aquarium to help them survive, and 🤞 thrive!
The guys in Oceanworld Aquarium have been a key element of National Parks and Wildlife Service's conservation work for the #Natterjack in #Kerry 👏👏👏👏👏🐸🐸🐸
🐸🐸🐸The natterjack toadlet release, with Oceanworld Aquarium and Fota Wildlife Park, has been an annual highlight for me for the last 8 years. But today's release into our new National Park at Inch dunes was special - such an amazing place for Nature 🐸🐸🐸🦋🐌🐝🪲🏵🌸🌼🐞
Early Reg deadline for the All-Ireland Mammal Symposium in ATU Galway City is fast approaching - Aug 31st! Register for €75, and only €50 for students. With over 100 attendees already registered, don't miss out on 2 full days of mammal talks! eventbrite.ie/e/all-ireland-…
🚜 If you’re at the National Ploughing Ploughing Championships today, drop in and see us - we’re on Row 11, Block 3 - in the Climate Action marquee. Find out more about our schemes to protect nature, discover our National Parks and meet our staff! #Ploughing2024
That's it from day 1 at the #Ploughing24 - a busy day for the Department, its units, agencies and staff. We were delighted to welcome Ministers Malcolm Noonan T.D. and Alan Dillon to the event today. Visit us at stands 172 and 173, Row 11 tomorrow and Thursday
#AIMS2024 - been there, got the mug! Thanks to all who attended! A big thanks to all our generous sponsors - National Parks and Wildlife Service Vincent Wildlife INJ-Journal ATU Galway City Scott Cawley MKO The Heritage Council Galway City Council Galway County Council An exciting time for Irish mammalogy!
🫎🐗🦔🦇🦡🐾🐀🐋 That's a wrap for AIMS2024!! Well done ATU Galway City. Two great days catching up with old friends, meeting new National Parks and Wildlife Service colleagues and hearing about everything going on with mammals in Ireland. Department of Housing, Local Government & Heritage Notice Nature Ireland VWTIreland Bat Conservation Ire
New paper! 🦇❄️💤 How often do bats scout and switch hibernacula? For Natterer’s and Daubenton’s bats it turns out, almost never. …lpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11… Based on the brilliant long-term monitoring being led by Frauke Meier at Bat Research Greifswald, and published in Animal Conservation
Natural Capital Ireland is recruiting a voluntary chairperson with experience in the areas of #naturerestoration, #ecosystemservices, #biodiversity, #sustainabledevelopment or other relevant subjects. Read more and apply via Boardmatch Ireland by October 25: boardmatch.ie/board-vacancy/…
Some nice weather graphics here Met Éireann Carlow Weather !!
🐸🐸 This is the dream PhD - the summer in #kerry helping to conserve Ireland's rarest amphibian and the winter in Queen's University Belfast 🎓 investigating aspects of its biology and ecology. Form an orderly queue please!! 🐸🐸 National Parks and Wildlife Service Notice Nature Ireland The HSI ARG UK