Ciara Laverty, part of a team that monitors bird numbers around Lough Neagh, has noticed changes this year Early birds may catch the worm - but it's the early volunteers who catch the birds. And ...

Early birds may catch the worm - but it's the early volunteers who catch the birds. And the ones that get caught in the 18-metre long, fine-mist nets strung high across a reed bed at Killycolpy, on ...

July 17, 2023 at 3:06pm BST. The deliberate torching of a store for equipment used in a major bird ringing project has jeopardised a comprehensive study of wildlife on the shores of Lough Neagh ...

These fleets of pochard, scaup and goldeneye made Lough Neagh an internationally significant site for overwintering birds in the 1980s. In the years since, their numbers have plummeted.

The water lapping against the shore of Lough Neagh is not a healthy blue, but a sickly green. A walk along the canal path at Toome, Co Antrim, reveals just how unwell the lake is. At the lock ...

"The temperature of the lough has increased by one degree since 1995," explains Gerry Darby, manager of the Lough Neagh Partnership. "That doesn't sound a lot, but it is for a lough like this.

Lough Neagh Partnership Manager, Gerry Darby said even before this year's blooms, the decrease in fly life was evident. "There used to be so many of them and you could almost see them like plumes ...

Lough Neagh, the largest freshwater lake in the UK and Ireland, is being poisoned by a toxic blue-green algae on an apocalyptic scale. It is killing fish, birds and dogs and there are serious ...

A 2013 study by Queen’s University researchers found that the number of migratory winter birds in the Lough Neagh area had dropped by almost 80% in the previous decade, while there had also been ...

Image caption, Ciara Laverty, part of a team that monitors bird numbers around Lough Neagh, has noticed changes this year Article Information Author, Louise Cullen Role, Agriculture and ...