Country diary: A magical encounter with a ‘fairy bird’ not seen here for 30 years | Mary Montague
Annagh Marsh, County Mayo, Ireland: I hold my breath as I watch a red-necked phalarope darting about, tweezering food. Without habitat restoration, it wouldn’t be hereOn a sunny morning a few weeks ago, Dave Suddaby, the reserves manager with the conservation organisation BirdWatch Ireland, led me across the machair to where the fairy birds were nesting in Annagh Marsh. “Fairy bird” is the name given to the red-necked phalarope by the Irish naturalist Robert Lloyd Praeger after he encountered the…
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