Daybreak with Evonne Ferguson

Daybreak with Evonne Ferguson

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Daybreak with Evonne Ferguson episodes

  • Naturefile - Ants
    There are thousands of ant species across the world, but here are some you are more likely to find in Ireland. Anja tells us more!

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    7 min
  • Naturefile - Alien Wildflowers
    Terms such as wild, native or alien are often used by botanists but what exactly do they mean? How long does a plant have to have occurred here to count as native?

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    7 min
  • Naturefile - Choughs
    Now that the chicks have fledged, Red-billed choughs can be seen soaring over the coastline in flocks and gathering together on clifftops and coastal grassland, where they to poke their distinctive red beak in the ground in search of small insects to eat. Explore the unexpected ways of being a chough in Nature File this Saturday morning.

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    7 min
  • Naturefile - Wild Peas
    Wild peas are clambering through hedges, woodland edges and pockets of wild tangled growth right now, using their climbing tentacles to help them get to the light. These delicate wild flowering plants are the original ancestors of domestic pea. Discover the world of wild peas on nature file this week.

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    7 min
  • Naturefile - Cold water coral reefs
    Spectacular coral reefs thrive on Ireland’s continental margin, some reaching over 100m in height, teeming with life forms of every description. Discover the strange world of Irelands’ cold water coral reefs this Saturday morning on Nature File.

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    7 min
  • Naturefile - Puffins
    During the summer months, puffins are tending to their young, with their yellow, red and orange bills stuffed with sand eels and sprat to bring to the baby birds, who are still hidden away in burrows. Explore the strange world of puffins in this weeks Nature File with Anja Murray.

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    7 min
  • Naturefile - Mice
    Characteristically, mice are known to have a pointed snout, small rounded ears, a body-length scaly tail, and a high breeding rate. The best known mouse species is the common house mouse. Mice are also popular as pets.

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    6 min
  • Natuefile - Aromatic Herbs
    Most of the aromatic herbs we are familiar with are more at home in the Mediterranean, though native plants such as bog rosemary, wild thyme, sorrel and water mint have long been used for adding flavour to food.

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    6 min
  • Naturefile -Lizards

    Across the worlds there are many types of Lizard, but one one species made it to Ireland, and here they manage to live discreetly, going largely unnoticed by us. 

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    6 min
  • Naturefile - Osprey
    The osprey (Pandion haliaetus) also called sea hawk, river hawk, and fish hawk.

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    7 min

About Daybreak with Evonne Ferguson

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Naturefile is a celebratory journey to the lesser-known realms of nature in Ireland with Anja Murray. With surprising stories uncovered each week, about everything from lichens to trees, Swallows to…

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