These common mystery birds are members of a group of birds that are known as "diving ducks" in honour of how they hunt Tufted duck, Aythya fuligula, Linnaeus, 1758 (formerly, Nyroca fuligula; protonym ...
Gulls have learned to follow diving ducks and take the bottom-dwelling mussels that the ducks bring to the surface, a food source that would otherwise be inaccessible to them. Gulls are one of the ...
DURING a break in play at my home club an Droim Mór's recent thriller of a Tyrone championship encounter against title holders Dungannon, I noticed a solitary whooper swan flying relatively low in the ...