For three decades, Mooney Goes Wild reporter Terry Flanagan has been roaming the highways and byways of Ireland in search of answers to your wildlife queries. He's been up every tree, down every ditch and through every hedge in pursuit of a good story - if there's a mystery in the natural world, Terry is usually the man to solve it... he is, after all, the Sherlock Holmes of RTÉ wildlife reporting!

Over the years he has investigated countless countryside curiosities that have left listeners scratching their heads! Tonight we're dipping into the archives to revisit some classic Terry reports - including the mystery of communal rook roosting in Portlaoise, meeting the Swans of Lough Ennell and pausing to savour the orchids of Mount Merrion...

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Terry Flanagan visits Declan Murphy in Newcastle, Co Wicklow, to discover why 2026 has been a good year for Irish butterflies.

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Niall Hatch answers listeners’ questions about elusive summer Robins and why insects survive crashing into windows.

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Terry Flanagan learns night photography from Anthony Lynch at Dunsink Observatory.

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Rory Cobbe meets Róisín FitzGerald, John Leahy & Aileen Tennant at Fota to learn more about their new Sumatran Tiger cubs.

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Thom Breathnach tells us about SANCCOB in Cape Town, and their efforts to save the Critically Endangered African Penguin.

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Niall Hatch explains how spiders survive getting wet, and why House Spiders so often find themselves trapped in our baths...

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Terry Flanagan & Éanna Ní Lamhna visit TCD’s Herbarium to meet curator Dr Peter Moonlight after its major refurbishment...

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