| Well look-ey here-y |
| Looks like we got ourselves some visitors. Paw - go put the kittle on. |
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| Plankton-scooping beast trawls the deep off Galway coast |
| Sometimes that shark he looks right into ya. Right into your eyes. And, you know, the thing about a shark...he's got lifeless eyes. Black eyes. Like a doll's eyes... |
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| Giant birds wreak havoc |
| Enormous whopper swans seen on Ballynaki... oh hang on...whooper? Sorry, Whooper swans. But there were geese too so things could easily have spiralled out of control and gotten very ugly indeed. |
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| Breast one yet... |
| Amadan Beag uaigneach (Breandan O'Connor) ag faire ar eanachai eagsula thall i gCloch na Ron um deireadh seachtaine seo caite. Oh 's e an trua ghear nach mise, nach mise... |
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| Don't panic! |
| International Invertebrate Taxonomic Workshop 2010 attended |
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| Diet of Worms/Obair crua... |
| Arduous trip endured to land of strong sushine and delicious wines - all in the name of science. |
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| Meet the Barents |
| In which our intrepid explorers visit a strange new world, bathed in perpetual light - at the bottom of the top of their own one... |
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| Shark! SHARK! |
| Irish diver has close encounter with world's second largest extant shark off the Co. Clare coast. Shark survives encounter unscathed. |
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| What lies beneath... |
| AQUAFACT conduct illuminating Irish SAC & SPA marine surveys around the coast. Sea creatures unanimously welcome increased publicity. |
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| Jelly anyone? |
| Gelatinous creatures move silently off west coast. |
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| Bird man of Tully Mountain |
| Large raptors terrorize local man in Conamara. All three birds escape uninjured. |
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| World Cup Gold win for Donegal |
| Buncrana man strikes it rich, wins substantial sum in World Cup (pool) victory for Donegal. Unwilling to share his good fortune. |
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| Don't they ever stop migrating? |
| Barbary dove & Sand Martins wreak havoc in the west. Cuckoo & Swallow in Menlo. Good weather is nigh sayeth local soothsayer. |
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| Spring is sprung. The grass is ris. I wonders where the birdies is? |
| The first of the Spring visitors were heard and seen in Galway yesterday evening and this morning... |
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| Blue amphipods |
| Have you information on distribution/ecology of blue amphipods? |
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| You're gonna need a bigger boat... |
| Basking shark seen in Inisboffin Sound |
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| Wings of a dove |
| Barbary Dove (Streptopelia roseogriseus) spotted in Aughrusbeg |
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| Shearing successfully completed (Shave or Dye) |
| Two AF employees have been shorn this morning in support of the Irish Cancer Society. Photos to follow in our galleries section... |
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| Hair today, gone tomorrow (Shave or Dye) |
| Two 'brave' AF employees have been volunteered to baldly go where they have not gone before |
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| Have you heard about the bird(s)? |
| Four visiting birds have been observed in Co. Galway between December 2009 & February 2010 |
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| Mauve stingers swarm off Irish West Coast |
| A jellyfish known as the Mauve Stinger was observed in high densities off the Galway Coast from July to Sept 2009 |
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| New record for Phallusia mammilata (a sea squirt) |
| A tunicate (previously only known from Bantry Bay in Ireland) has been recorded at a new location near Valentia Island, Co. Kerry.
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| World record attempt for longest SCUBA dive |
| Two Irish brothers are planning to battle the cold and dark depths of the Atlantic to raise money for children's charities. |
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| Scientific surveys in SACs and SPAs 2009 |
| AQUAFACT will be conducting scientific surveys in numerous Special Areas of Conservation and Special Protection Areas around the Irish Coast throughout the remainder of 2009. |
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| White-backed gulls at Aughrus Co. Galway |
| 2 Glaucous Gulls were seen perched on offshore rocks at Aughrusbeg Strand, Cleggan, Co. Galway
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| Gadwall on Omey Island, Co. Galway |
| A male gadwall (Anas strepera) was observed on a small lake on Omey Island, Claddaghduff, Co. Galway |
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| Second digital SPI system |
| Second AQUAFACT sediment profile imaging (SPI) system completed |
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| Limacina at Carricknamackan |
| Planktonic snails in their thousands were noted at Carricknamackan, today |
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| Little Blue Heron in Ireland |
| A Little Blue Heron has been sighted near Letterfrack in Galway. |
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| Albacore Tuna off the southwest coast |
| Dr Pete Tyndall of |
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| Baby come back |
| SPI camera returns home after 4 week absence. Settling in well |
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