![]() ![]() The live-stream event will include bird expert Sam Bayley, identifying bird song of Skellig Michael - the popular puffin, kittiwakes, gannets and razorbills. ![]() This years Dawn Chorus is led by Regional Manager Southern Division NPWS, Eamonn Meskell, Regional Manager Killarney National Park, Danny O’Keeffe, and Conservation Rangers, Mary Sheehan, Padraig (Brac) O’Sullivan, Sam Bayley, Jess Burkitt, Sean Forde and Tricia Beecher. The territorial call begins with a song of a robin, followed by the soft tones of the blackbird, then song thrushes, wood pigeons, wrens, warblers, sparrows, and finches. The cloisters of Muckross Abbey with its centerpiece 500-year-old Yew tree, will come alive with bird song, just before 5am - 30 minutes either side of the sunrise. The beautiful surrounds of Muckross Abbey, along with the sixth century monasteries of Innisfallen Island and Skellig Michael will provide the perfect amphitheatre to this years ‘Dawn Chorus’ – presented by the Conservation Rangers of Killarney National Park, National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) – when it is live streamed from 5am onwards from the Killarney National Parks Facebook page. ![]()
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