Garda\u00ed have recovered a male bullfinch during an operation targeting the illegal trapping and possession of wild birds in Limerick city.<\/p>\n
The bird, whose scientific name is pyrrhula pyrrhula, was surrendered to National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) operatives during a search at a premises in the St Mary’s Park area on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
Known as corcr\u00e1n coille in Irish, the bullfinch is common and widespread across Ireland.<\/p>\n
The male bullfinch is around 15cm in length and can be identified by its bright crimson breast, glossy black head and grey back.<\/p>\n
It has a green conservation status, meaning it is not of conservation concern, with the bullfinch increasing its breeding population in recent years.<\/p>\n
The NPWS conducted the search alongside members of An Garda S\u00edoch\u00e1na and Limerick dog warden services.<\/p>\n
No arrests have been made and investigations are ongoing.<\/p>\n
Garda\u00ed said anyone wishing to make a report in relation to wildlife crime can contact their local garda station, or the Garda Confidential Line on 1800 666 111.<\/p>\n
Confidential reports can also be made to NPWS via email.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Garda\u00ed have recovered a male bullfinch during an operation targeting the illegal trapping and possession of wild birds…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":473466,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-473465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473465","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=473465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473465\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/473466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}