{"id":219365,"date":"2025-12-31T05:46:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T05:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/219365\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T05:46:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T05:46:08","slug":"rare-mushroom-find-in-alderney-sparks-push-to-record-wildlife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/219365\/","title":{"rendered":"Rare mushroom find in Alderney sparks push to record wildlife"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">An Alderney ecologist is emphasising the importance of recording wildlife following her discovery of a rare mushroom.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Niamh McDevitt, from the Alderney Wildlife Trust (AWT), found <a target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cx25xj13y5go\" class=\"sc-f9178328-0 iCaRzc\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">one of the rarest fungi in the British Isles<\/a> for the first time on the Channel Island in November.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Ms McDevitt said finding the date waxcap had been &#8220;very exciting&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">She added: &#8220;I&#8217;m sure they&#8217;ve been seen other times or people might not have even realised what they were looking for which just shows the importance of recording everything that you find.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Niamh said it was &#8220;quite obvious stood out in the grass&#8221; with its bright colours.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">After finding the mushroom, Niamh took photos and recorded it on a species identification app, where others verified her sighting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">She said she was encouraging others to record their sightings too to feed back into records for the island.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">She said: &#8220;It&#8217;s just important to know what&#8217;s on the island and you never know what you will find.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Niamh said she usually monitored seabirds on Alderney, but recently taken an interest in mushrooms and fungi.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">&#8220;You never know, you could be the first to discover one on an island or elsewhere,&#8221; Ms McDevitt said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Alderney ecologist is emphasising the importance of recording wildlife following her discovery of a rare mushroom. Niamh&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":219366,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[61,60,82,263],"class_list":{"0":"post-219365","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-science","11":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219365\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}