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Mooney Goes Wild — 268 episodes

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Nature On One: Talking Birds (Bank Holiday Monday, May 4th 2026 at midday)

2

Blue Tits, Cuckoos and Woodpeckers

3

Mermaid's Purse Discovered By Schoolboy In Co. Kerry

4

Dawn Chorus - RTÉ Radio 1 and RTÉ lyric fm | Sunday, May 3rd 2026 | 00:00 - 07:00

5

April 1st No Fools Day For Salmon Of Knowledge

6

Swallows And Wrens

7

Greenland Shark Washes Up On Irish Coast For First Time

8

Wild Dublin Art Exhibition At Rathmines Library

9

Our Marvel-ous New Sig Tune!

10

A Chorus Of French Frogs

11

Counting Rooks

12

The Cork Crow Conundrum

13

Farmer Moth Monitoring Scheme

14

Happy Birthday, Dr. Collins

15

Trying To Save New Zealand’s Albatrosses From Extinction

16

Terry Has A Tree-mendous Time At The National Botanic Gardens

17

Pine Martens

18

Make A Date For Dawn Chorus 2026: Sunday 3rd May

19

A Bed Of Lettuce? We Look At Foods That Can Make You Sleepy

20

Bidding Farewell To Our Brent Geese

21

On The Trail Of Cuskinny’s Kingfishers

22

Old Irish Goat Carries 3,000 Of Irish History

23

Backyard Badgers And Flowerbed Foxes

24

Meet The Woodcock: The Wader That Doesn’t Wade

25

Dublin’s Rare Surviving Elms Offer New Hope Against Dutch Elm Disease

26

Looking Forward To Nature Nights Live On RTÉ Radio 1

27

Grey Squirrels In Ireland: How Did They Get Here?

28

Keeping Track Of Ireland’s Squirrels And Pine Martens... And You Can Help!

29

Terry Goes On A Wild Goose Chase In Co. Wicklow

30

E-mails From Listeners

31

The Brent Goose: A Natural Symbol Of Dublin

32

Woodpeckers And Electricity Don’t Mix

33

Naturescapes: Getting A Helping Hand From The Natural World

34

Have You Been Feeling Under The (Extraordinarily Wet) Weather Lately?

35

The Collared Dove: An Avian Success Story

36

Peregrine Falcons In Cobh

37

Report - Ireland’s First "Living Seawall" In Cobh

38

Dinosaurs: What Happened To Them?

39

Designated deer: Sika added to the list of EU invasive alien species

40

Ancient shamrock at the Trinity College Herbarium

41

Biophilia at the Bots

42

Dr. Matthew Jebb is back... it’s about lime!

43

The Importance Of Biological Recording

44

The Robins Of Richie Ryan

45

What On Earth Is "Biophilia"?

46

The Great Big Garden Birdwatch

47

The Living And The Dead

48

What’s On Éanna’s Burns Night Menu?

49

Happy Retirement To Dr. Matthew Jebb

50

The Great Big Garden Birdwatch

51

Making Your Own Nature Reserve

52

A Mob Of Meerkats

53

Coping With A Confused woodpecker

54

What’s The Key To Taking Great Photos Of Kingfishers? Patience!

55

Dolphins Thrill Spectators In Cork City

56

When Is The Right Time To Have A Baby Bat?

57

Wetland Birds

58

Dead Zoo

59

Great Spotted Woodpeckers

60

Wildlife Stories From Sweden

61

Ten Thousand Years Deep: The Story of Ireland's Peatlands

62

Batman and Robin!

63

Weir-y seals!

64

The Great Irish Fossil Hunt

65

Green bus shelters in Ljubljana, Slovenia

66

Nature Book Suggestions For Christmas

67

BirdWatch Ireland’s Irish Garden Bird Survey starts today

68

Red Squirrel without a tail

69

Wildlife along Dublin’s River Dodder

70

A seal in the River Liffey?

71

Feeding Hooded Crows

72

Harper’s Island Wetlands Nature Reserve livestream

73

The Unnatural History of Animals: Tales from a Zoological Museum

74

After 25 years, Puffins return to the Isle of Muck

75

Domain of the Dinosaurs exhibition

76

Bird 'flu update: is it safe to feed garden birds?

77

Up close and personal with Ireland’s largest oak tree

78

Roger Casement: patriot, diplomat, poet, human rights campaigner . . . and naturalist?

79

Dragonflies of Britain and Ireland: 5th edition

80

Why has a new invasive alien seaweed been appearing along our coasts?

81

Autumn leaves feature on new seasonal stamps from An Post

82

Are trees responsible for humans having fingerprints?

83

The Genius of Trees

84

Domain of the Dinosaurs exhibition

85

Nature On One: The Ring Ouzel

86

The Basking Shark Conference

87

BirdWatch Ireland’s Irish Garden Bird Survey

88

Looking back at Eric Dempsey’s documentary about a very special bird: the Ring Ouzel

89

Night Kayaking in Cork

90

Driven nuts by a crow

91

Slender-billed Curlew declared extinct and previewing 'The Ring Ouzel'

92

The Hare's Corner

93

A robin with a crooked beak and crows on the beach at Lissadell

94

Mary’s Mizen Weather

95

Ring Ring

96

Creating roosting islands at Cuskinny Marsh Nature Reserve

97

Mary's Mizen Weather

98

Birds at the Edward Worth Library

99

An Áit a nÉitlíonn na Madaí Crainn

100

The Secret Lives of Owls in Ireland

101

The Glossy Ibis

102

Killarney National Park Autumn Talks Series 2025

103

Éanna’s Wild Dublin book: second edition out now

104

The “season of mists and mellow fruitfulness” is upon us

105

Celebrating National Tree Day

106

Seed-collecting with Jeremy Turkington

107

The threat posed by alien invasive species: don’t bring plants home from your holidays!

108

The problem of invasive alien plant species illegally being offered for sale

109

Birds and humans join forces to exploit beehives: the remarkable tale of the honeyguide

110

Edelweiss - may you bloom and grow forever

111

Investigating avian intelligence

112

The Mayfly

113

The Sustainable Futures Forum

114

Friendship is an important factor in gorillas, not just humans

115

Crockery Mountain

116

The different ways we can identify animals

117

Wings and Bird Detectives: we take a look at BirdWatch Ireland’s membership magazines

118

Are butterflies finally flying high again this year?

119

Global Action Plan: helping people to reconnect with nature

120

Rambling Along the Royal Canal

121

Episódio 149 - Mooney Goes Wild

122

Urban wildlife goes off the rails in Dublin!

123

Wild Dublin – second edition is on the way!

124

Noisy Sparrowhawks

125

Ancient Music in the Forest

126

On the trail of foraging foxes and backyard badgers!

127

Ealing Wildlife Group: an update

128

This is the time of year when wasp behaviour tends to change . . . and we are more likely to get stung

129

“Wonder reptile” fossil challenges ideas about how and when feathers evolved

130

Forgotten Forests: Twelve Thousand Years of British and Irish Woodlands

131

Where have all the insects gone?

132

International Conference on Basking Sharks

133

Two critically endangered Flapper Skates washed ashore in Co. Mayo

134

Looking back at Ken Whelan’s Nature On One documentary on mayflies

135

An update on Garrylucas Marsh

136

Reporting from Global Birdfair 2025 in Rutland, England

137

Can we save the Ash tree?

138

Water pollution rises during summer

139

Exploring the world of Irish bats

140

Remembering plastic hurleys

141

PodSóRespondeQuemSabe

142

Celebrating 100 episodes of RTÉ’s Ecolution podcast

143

How did a Leopard become frozen high on Kilimanjaro?

144

Carlow Garden Festival

145

Celebrating the saving of Abbeyleix Bog, 25 years on

146

Mooney’s Wheel of Wildlife

147

Filming the fastest animal on the planet

148

Monitoring marine mammals

149

Magpie missing its tail

150

Terry’s portable amber time-capsule

151

Take part in the Great Irish Fossil Hunt

152

Bee Safari at Harper’s Island Wetlands Nature Reserve

153

BirdWatch Ireland identifies Ireland’s most important areas for seabirds

154

Giving rare waders a head start in life at Fota Wildlife Park

155

Cuckoo singing three notes: what’s going on?

156

Living Among the Puffins on Skellig Michael

157

Anglers urged to report sightings of Pacific Pink Salmon in Irish rivers

158

Sumer is icumen in

159

Looking forward to Ken Whelan’s upcoming documentary about mayflies

160

The highlights of Dawn Chorus 2025

161

The Birds of County Donegal

162

Insect Portraits: Capturing the personality of (mostly) Irish Insects

163

Bringing back the White-tailed Eagle

164

Irritable Owl Syndrome

165

How to manage elephants in captivity

166

Questions from Listeners

167

Rambling on Rathlin Island

168

What can nature tell us about living together?

169

Five fantastic facts about our feathered friends in five minutes

170

Robins eating slug pellets

171

The loss of experience in elephant societies

172

The uplifting power of a Blackbird

173

Terry Flanagan is in clover . . . literally!

174

Cuckoo singing in Co. Wexford . . . but is he too late?

175

Mooney Goes Wild at 30

176

Mooney Goes Wild: Live From Bloom 2025

177

Breeding Waders EIP: saving some of Ireland’s most endangered birds

178

Zombie Spiders

179

Remembering Michael O'Meara

180

Hazel Dormouse in Co. Clare

181

A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square

182

Rare bird looks set to stay in Dublin’s Phoenix Park . . . knock on wood

183

Dublin Port Tolka Estuary Greenway

184

National Biodiversity Week 2025

185

Going Cuckoo with Eric Dempsey!

186

Papillons de France

187

Lime Hawk-moth

188

Invasive Species Week: 12th to 18th May 2025

189

Great Tits: a staggering 77 years of data from Wytham Woods in England

190

Corncrakes and Cuckoos on Inishbofin

191

Looking back at Dawn Chorus Live 2025

192

Tackling aquatic invasives

193

Nestwatch 2025

194

Harper's Island Wetlands

195

Mooney Goes Wild Turns 30

196

Looking forward to Dawn Chorus Live on Sunday 4th May

197

Portlaoise Pigeons

198

Dawn Chorus sounds preview

199

Celebrating 30 years of Mooney Goes Wild!

200

Curlew headstarting

201

Niall goes birdwatching and exploring in Egypt

202

"A short back and sides" asked the Robin!

203

Looking ahead to NestWatch 2025

204

A Robin visits Derek's house ahead of the Dawn Chorus

205

Jim Wilson's Sand Martin stream gets an upgrade

206

Wasps in glasshouses shouldn’t grow domes!

207

April showers: something to celebrate

208

Ridding Killarney National Park of Rhododendrons

209

Jack Snipe: one of the most secretive Irish birds of all

210

Hoopoe invasion!

211

Corvid intelligence

212

Duck feeders

213

Do birds sit? Oscar Wilde certainly seemed to think so!

214

Saving The Maharees from coastal erosion is a true community effort

215

Join the hunt for mermaid’s purses

216

(Not so) Common Crane seen in Co. Kilkenny

217

Pocket Forests at the University of Galway

218

Doctors by Nature

219

A Tale of Dandelions and Guinea Pigs

220

Drumming duets in the Garden County

221

Nesting Season special: Easter Monday, 21st April 2025

222

New Year Plant Hunt

223

Why doesn’t ice stick to Polar Bear fur?

224

Swimming Upstream: one man’s fight to save the Atlantic wild salmon

225

Did St. Patrick really rid Ireland of snakes?

226

National Tree Week: “Planting Trees, Growing Together”

227

How good are the facilities for birdwatchers in Ireland?

228

The Lark Ascending

229

Spring Alive: submit your records of migrant birds

230

Harper’s Island Wetlands: the perfect place to watch waterbirds

231

Frogs are feeling frisky!

232

World-class murmurations at Lough Ennell

233

Name That Tune!

234

Frolicking French Flamingos

235

Sustainable Futures Forum at University College Cork

236

Calling all farmers: the Breeding Waders EIP needs you!

237

Marsh Fritillary butterfly

238

Hazel Dormouse in Co. Kildare

239

Humpback Whale bites off more than it can chew

240

Pesticides in pet fur pose problems for nesting birds

241

La Fête du Mimosa

242

Wearing your art on your sleeve: the ink-redible world of animal tattoos

243

Knock, knock. Who’s there? The Green Woodpecker!

244

If it doesn’t walk like a duck and it doesn’t talk like a duck . . . it may still be a duck!

245

Here Comes the Sun!

246

Ceramic Swallows in Lisbon

247

Humpback Whale makes a journey spanning three oceans

248

Celebrating Snowdrop Month

249

Proud as a Peacock: looking at mating displays in the animal kingdom

250

The Red Fox

251

Eggs

252

Dürer's Rhinoceros

253

The Disputed Toll

254

Pope Leo's Elephant

255

Winter Birds Special

256

Nightjars confirmed to be breeding in the south-east of Ireland

257

The Keeper of the Bees: Bees and Beekeeping in Irish Folklore

258

On Land and Water: the superb new book from wildlife photographer Sheena Jolley

259

Congratulations, Dr. Éanna Ní Lamhna!

260

Death’s-head Hawk-moth

261

Ireland’s Generous Nature: The Past and Present Uses of Wild Plants in Ireland

262

Lichens of Ireland and Great Britain: a visual guide to their identification

263

Meetings with Moths: Discovering their Mystery and Extraordinary Lives

264

Christmas gift special: focus on books about nature

265

The Most Perfect: Thing Inside (and Outside) a Bird’s Egg

266

Drawn to Nature: Encounters with Irish Wildlife

267

The Field Guide to Dumb Birds of North America

268

Parakeets in Rome