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A close-up of a Panasonic Lumix G9II camera held by a hand, with a blurred green grass background.
I've been using the superb Panasonic Lumix G9 Micro-four-thirds camera for my wildlife photography since I reviewed it here on the site back in 2018, not long after its release. It was... and indeed still is... a fantastic camera for wildlife. With the announcement of the Lumix G9II in late....
A basking shark off the West Cork Coast
"Shark-infested waters" isn't a term you normally associate with the Irish coastline, yet in late spring and early summer the Irish coast is one of the best places in Europe to see one of the world's largest sharks. The basking sharks (Cetorhinus maximus) is the largest fish in the North Atlantic, and second....

Wildlife Features

Watching deer in Ireland takes patience and practice
With the Autumn deer rut in full swing Environmental Biologist David O'Brien takes us on a journey into the hills of county Wicklow in search....
wildlife-gift-voucher Christmas
You know it’s coming. Big commercial brands have been pushing it since October, and yet somehow this most surreptitious of holidays still creeps under your....
Buff-tailed_bumblebee,_Bombus_terrestris
  Ireland's Wildlife Contributor Albert Nolan gets up close and personal with the bees of Limerick and discovers that the City really is buzzing!   ....
Red Squirrel in Co. Waterford, Ireland
The red squirrel (Sciurus vulgaris) is one of our most charismatic species, found in woodlands in many parts of Ireland and is an animal that....