Andrew Power

Wildlife Conservationist | Seabird scientist #seabirds #marinebiology | Love the #outdoors, #wildlife & #Sinai

[Andrew Power @aerpower]

Atlantic Auks 🎨🐧 from the starling sized Little Auk to the extinct, goose sized Great Auk. 4 species breed in Ireland #seabirdersaturday

[Féaron Cassidy, PhD @FearonCassidy]

I still miss the river at @nuigalway but feel very privileged to work at beautiful @MaynoothUni campus, if you haven’t visited Ireland’s universities add it to your list!

[gopisundar @gopisundarks]

A photo to celebrate today, and to underscore the need to expand beyond protected wetlands, especially in countries like ours.

[Andrew Power @aerpower]

@Ash_w_b @BAS_News Good luck!

[Andrew Power @aerpower]

It finally happened

[Art History Memes for Aesthetic Fiends @ArtMemeLord]

St George testing the dragon for covid

[Conor Ryan @whale_nerd]

We found about 1000 fin whales over a 5x5 mile area off South Orkney. Blue and humpback also mixed in. Mind completely blown 🐳 @LindbladExp #NationalGeographicEndurance

[Dr Dean Lomax @Dean_R_Lomax]

I’m absolutely thrilled to reveal the largest ichthyosaur skeleton EVER discovered in Britain!

It was an honour to lead the excavation and unearth this incredible Jurassic GIANT from its ancient rocky tomb in Rutland! Found by Joe Davis @RutlandWaterNR #RutlandSeaDragon

[Andrew Power @aerpower]

@Mshorten @BirdWatchIE That is amazing.

I’ve been looking through some of his stuff online, really like how readable it is…it must have been so exciting to be a birder/ornithologist in that time…

Good luck with the book!

[Andrew Power @aerpower]

I came across a cool paper from 1911 about the discovery of Fulmar breeding in Ireland.

The ornithologist Richard Ussher was alerted to breeding Fulmar in Mayo by a boatman who referred to them as “white Cawnoges”. Cawnoge being the Irish word for Manx Shearwater.

Love this!

[Andrew Power @aerpower]

Back in Carlow for a few days and have already seen Crossbill, Woodpecker, Goosander Brambling as well as this Peacock butterfly enjoying some winter sun the day after Christmas.

Splendid having this on your doorstep 😊

[Andrew Power @aerpower]

Had a wonderful view of a male Sparrowhawk out birdwatching this morning, was delighted to hear @PhilippeAuclair experiencing the same joy on the @guardian_sport FW!

[Andrew Power @aerpower]

@juliaellenbaak Great job 👏

[Andrew Power @aerpower]

@TheLabAndField @AdriftLab Nice talk!

[Andrew Power @aerpower]

Watching Humpback Whales off Loop Head with @FearonCassidy, incredible! Also saw a couple of bonxies, hundreds of dolphins…finished the day with a snorkel in the pollock holes in Kilkee, saw some decent sized wrasse

Bloody hell, needed that after weeks of computer work!

[Dr Haley Dolton (she/her) @haleydolton]

It was such a privilege to see these amazing sharks doing their thing off the coast of Clare this week! I’ll never forget it!! I also deployed a few more tags for my PhD (see if you can spot it)! A massive thanks to @IWDGnews for having me 📸 Simon Berrow/IWDG/@BaskingIrish

[John Murphy @JohnMur92523137]

A nice day spent off the Fastnet Rock, Co. Cork in great company on my first pelagic birding trip. 5 ticks.

#pelagicbirding #shearwatertours.

[Andrew Power @aerpower]

Comma butterfly in Leixlip

Named after the white mark on the underside of wing that looks like a comma 🤨

I used to get the 'Wild Ireland' magazine as a kid & remember reading they had been spotted in Wexford, blew my mind then, great they have established & spread in Ireland!

[ivan zhao @zhaovan8]

oh sorry i cant im busy that day

[Andrew Power @aerpower]

Found the pothole marked on this wonderful map, I’ve had this (and other Burren maps) since I was a kid and absolutely adore them. Great for finding caves, ring-forts holy wells that you would never know were there!

[Andrew Power @aerpower]

We came across this magical, hidden pothole in the Burren called Poll an Phúca which means hole of the púca, a supernatural creature in Irish folklore.

From the entrance you can hear an invisible river flowing deep underground.I imagine this sound to be the wailing of the púca!