Farmers say they have been left "in limbo land" as they wait for the full introduction of a scheme that will support nature ...

The amber-listed Manx Shearwater has bred on Rathlin Island for the first time in decades. And hopes are now high that their ...

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The presence of six calling male corncrakes on Rathlin Island this breeding season has been hailed as a "record-breaking" milestone. The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds Northern Ireland ...

Rathlin Island ​has attracted breeding pairs of Manx Shearwaters for the first time in decades with several pairs of the endangered bird species successfully raising a chick this year.

Barn owls in County Down have successfully bred for three years in a row. They are one of Northern Ireland's rarest birds with fewer than 30 breeding pairs in the country. But on one farm in ...

A Co Down farmer is celebrating after one of Northern Ireland’s rarest birds successfully bred on his land for the third year in a row. Barn owl numbers are down to fewer than 30 breeding pairs in the ...

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