Ken Foxe<\/p>\n
A pigeon in a costume cupboard, a dead fox behind an academic building, and a seagull with suspected bird flu were among the wildlife callouts at Trinity College Dublin over the past two years.<\/p>\n
The famous city campus has had dozens of sightings of rats, mice, moths, and silverfish, according to a log of incidents.<\/p>\n
In one case, a pigeon somehow got trapped inside a press filled with costumes at the Lir Academy for drama.<\/p>\n
Last June, tests were carried out on a seagull found on campus to determine whether it had died of bird flu.<\/p>\n
An incident log said: \u201c[Disease] not present, all good.\u201d<\/p>\n
In 2024, the university dealt with a series of incidents involving carpet moths in various parts of the campus with spray treatment applied.<\/p>\n
There were multiple callouts for rodents that year with a \u201cbaby rat\u201d discovered in one trap and droppings found around a sink.<\/p>\n
Another entry from the logs said: \u201cBad smell, carcass found, removed, temporary [bait] boxes installed.\u201d<\/p>\n
On one occasion, pest controllers were called and spotted \u201cvisible movement\u201d as well as carcasses on site.<\/p>\n
The records also showed at least a dozen times where burrows were baited in the hopes of keeping rodents at bay.<\/p>\n
Reports were also logged of a dead squirrel, a dead fox, and pigeons nesting in the roof space of the Arts Block.<\/p>\n
Asked about the records, a spokesperson said on a campus as large as Trinity, with many historic buildings, it was inevitable staff would be called out to deal with wildlife.<\/p>\n
They said: \u201cTrinity is a nature positive campus where our Estates and Facilities team work closely with the Sustainability Office to promote, preserve and enhance wildlife and biodiversity on the estate.<\/p>\n
\u201cCurrently we have over 520 species of plants, fungi and animals thriving on campus.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ken Foxe A pigeon in a costume cupboard, a dead fox behind an academic building, and a seagull…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":465570,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[201333,61,60,82,26105,40896,15120,263],"class_list":["post-465569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-science","tag-co-dublin","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-science","tag-tcd","tag-trinity-college","tag-trinity-college-dublin","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465569","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=465569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465569\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/465570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}