The goosander is considered a very rare breeding duck in Ireland and Wicklow Mountains National Park staff are looking for assistance from the public in tracking their numbers, especially for ...

St John’s Chapel, Weardale: Unlike migrating drakes, females like this one can’t simply fly off when we approach her brood on the river Outside the breeding season, goosanders are usually wary birds, ...

AN extremely rare visitor to our shores was captured in this photograph by local man Michael Guerin recently when he noticed some strange plumage among a brace of mallards on the Feale. Michael was ...

The ice-edged easterlies brought their own kind of harvest to our parish. I climbed up the Yare river bank, and there on the water were three goosander, the male a glorious mix of emerald and ...

Q: I really appreciate your nature column that we see in the Bennington Banner, but this morning the photo and caption above your column has me baffled. Nowhere online or in any of my bird books do I ...

If you are not too averse to rising early, the hour before sunrise is a special time. On the slopes above the upper lake in Glendalough, Co Wicklow, it can be very special indeed: there is the promise ...

A new set of stamps is being issued to celebrate the diverse range of wild and domesticated ducks found in the UK. The stamps have images of 10 duck species and breeds including goosander, Indian ...