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Mooney Goes Wild

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Derek Mooney and guests explore the natural world in all its forms.

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Episode Notes

The Great Big Garden Birdwatch Gallery show image

The Great Big Garden Birdwatch Gallery

Mooney Goes Wild Monday January 19th 2026 show image

Mooney Goes Wild Monday January 19th 2026

Mooney Goes Wild – The Great Big Garden Birdwatch Live Stream show image

Mooney Goes Wild – The Great Big Garden Birdwatch Live Stream

Mooney Goes Wild Monday January 5th 2026 show image

Mooney Goes Wild Monday January 5th 2026

Mooney Goes Wild: Wetland Birds (02/01/26) show image

Mooney Goes Wild: Wetland Birds (02/01/26)

Nature on One: Arctic Saxifrage show image

Nature on One: Arctic Saxifrage

Mooney Goes Wild At Christmas! show image

Mooney Goes Wild At Christmas!

Mooney Goes Wild: Reports (29/12/25) show image

Mooney Goes Wild: Reports (29/12/25)

Mooney Goes Wild: Domain Of The Dinosaurs (28/12/25) show image

Mooney Goes Wild: Domain Of The Dinosaurs (28/12/25)

Nature On One: Reindeer show image

Nature On One: Reindeer

Mooney Goes Wild Monday 22 December 2025 show image

Mooney Goes Wild Monday 22 December 2025

Mooney Goes Wild Monday 15 December 2025 show image

Mooney Goes Wild Monday 15 December 2025

Mooney Goes Wild Monday December 8th 2025 show image

Mooney Goes Wild Monday December 8th 2025

Mooney Goes Wild Monday December 1st 2025 show image

Mooney Goes Wild Monday December 1st 2025

Mooney Goes Wild Monday 24 November 2025 show image

Mooney Goes Wild Monday 24 November 2025

Mooney Goes Wild Monday 17 November 2025 show image

Mooney Goes Wild Monday 17 November 2025

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Mooney and Santa! show image

Mooney and Santa!

Mooney Goes Wild Monday 22 December 2025 show image

Mooney Goes Wild Monday 22 December 2025

Episode • 54 Mins • 22 DEC 25 • Mooney Goes Wild

Mooney Goes Wild Monday 15 December 2025 show image

Mooney Goes Wild Monday 15 December 2025

Mooney Goes Wild Monday December 8th 2025 show image

Mooney Goes Wild Monday December 8th 2025

Mooney Goes Wild Monday December 1st 2025 show image

Mooney Goes Wild Monday December 1st 2025

Mooney Goes Wild At Christmas! show image

Mooney Goes Wild At Christmas!

Latest Clips & Podcasts

A Mob Of Meerkats show image

A Mob Of Meerkats

Clip • 6 Mins • 19 JAN • Mooney Goes Wild

Coping With A Confused woodpecker show image

Coping With A Confused woodpecker

Clip • 10 Mins • 19 JAN • Mooney Goes Wild

Making Your Own Nature Reserve show image

Making Your Own Nature Reserve

Clip • 13 Mins • 19 JAN • Mooney Goes Wild

Dolphins Thrill Spectators In Cork City show image

Dolphins Thrill Spectators In Cork City

Clip • 12 Mins • 19 JAN • Mooney Goes Wild

What’s The Key To Taking Great Photos Of Kingfishers? Patience! show image

What’s The Key To Taking Great Photos Of Kingfishers? Patience!

Clip • 10 Mins • 19 JAN • Mooney Goes Wild

Great Spotted Woodpeckers show image

Great Spotted Woodpeckers

Clip • 12 Mins • 05 JAN • Mooney Goes Wild

When Is The Right Time To Have A Baby Bat? show image

When Is The Right Time To Have A Baby Bat?

Clip • 14 Mins • 05 JAN • Mooney Goes Wild

Dead Zoo show image

Dead Zoo

Clip • 10 Mins • 05 JAN • Mooney Goes Wild

Wetland Birds show image

Wetland Birds

Clip • 16 Mins • 05 JAN • Mooney Goes Wild

Wildlife Stories From Sweden show image

Wildlife Stories From Sweden

Clip • 54 Mins • 22 DEC 25 • Mooney Goes Wild

Batman and Robin! show image

Batman and Robin!

Clip • 13 Mins • 15 DEC 25 • Mooney Goes Wild

The Great Irish Fossil Hunt show image

The Great Irish Fossil Hunt

Clip • 10 Mins • 15 DEC 25 • Mooney Goes Wild

Ten Thousand Years Deep: The Story of Ireland's Peatlands show image

Ten Thousand Years Deep: The Story of Ireland's Peatlands

Clip • 11 Mins • 15 DEC 25 • Mooney Goes Wild

Green bus shelters in Ljubljana, Slovenia show image

Green bus shelters in Ljubljana, Slovenia

Clip • 13 Mins • 15 DEC 25 • Mooney Goes Wild

Weir-y seals! show image

Weir-y seals!

Clip • 5 Mins • 15 DEC 25 • Mooney Goes Wild

Nature Book Suggestions For Christmas show image

Nature Book Suggestions For Christmas

Clip • 53 Mins • 08 DEC 25 • Mooney Goes Wild

Wildlife along Dublin’s River Dodder show image

Wildlife along Dublin’s River Dodder

Clip • 6 Mins • 01 DEC 25 • Mooney Goes Wild

A seal in the River Liffey? show image

A seal in the River Liffey?

Clip • 3 Mins • 01 DEC 25 • Mooney Goes Wild

Red Squirrel without a tail show image

Red Squirrel without a tail

Clip • 6 Mins • 01 DEC 25 • Mooney Goes Wild

Harper’s Island Wetlands Nature Reserve livestream show image

Harper’s Island Wetlands Nature Reserve livestream

Clip • 7 Mins • 01 DEC 25 • Mooney Goes Wild

Documentaries

Nature on One show image

Nature on One

Episode • 52 Mins • 27 OCT 25 • Nature on One

Nature on One show image

Nature on One

Episode • 52 Mins • 04 AUG 25 • Nature on One

Nature on One show image

Nature on One

Episode • 52 Mins • 05 MAY 25 • Nature on One

Harper's Island Wetlands show image

Harper's Island Wetlands

Clip • 54 Mins • 05 MAY 25 • Mooney Goes Wild

The Red Fox show image

The Red Fox

Clip • 54 Mins • 03 FEB 25 • Mooney Goes Wild

The Disputed Toll show image

The Disputed Toll

Clip • 54 Mins • 13 JAN 25 • Mooney Goes Wild

Pope Leo's Elephant show image

Pope Leo's Elephant

Clip • 54 Mins • 06 JAN 25 • Mooney Goes Wild

The Extraordinary Tale of the White Prominent show image

The Extraordinary Tale of the White Prominent

Clip • 54 Mins • 18 NOV 24 • Mooney Goes Wild

Mooney Goes Wild Eggs show image

Mooney Goes Wild Eggs

Clip • 51 Mins • 12 AUG 24 • Mooney Goes Wild

The Magpie show image

The Magpie

Clip • 50 Mins • 01 APR 24 • Nature on One

The Beaver show image

The Beaver

Clip • 46 Mins • 18 MAR 24 • Nature on One

The Pigeon show image

The Pigeon

Clip • 53 Mins • 01 JAN 24 • Mooney Goes Wild

Listen back: The Osprey show image

Listen back: The Osprey

Clip • 52 Mins • 13 NOV 23 • Mooney Goes Wild

The Puffin show image

The Puffin

Clip • 45 Mins • 07 AUG 23 • Mooney Goes Wild

Bats show image

Bats

Clip • 53 Mins • 17 JUL 23 • Mooney Goes Wild

The Blackbird show image

The Blackbird

Clip • 53 Mins • 08 MAY 23 • Mooney Goes Wild

The Dandelion show image

The Dandelion

Clip • 53 Mins • 24 JUL 23 • Mooney Goes Wild

Nature on One show image

Nature on One

Episode • 52 Mins • 25 DEC 25 • Nature on One

News and Events

The Great Big Garden Birdwatch Gallery show image

The Great Big Garden Birdwatch Gallery

Mooney Goes Wild – The Great Big Garden Birdwatch Live Stream show image

Mooney Goes Wild – The Great Big Garden Birdwatch Live Stream

Follow all the wading activity from Harper's Island Wetlands Nature Reserve in Cork! show image

Follow all the wading activity from Harper's Island Wetlands Nature Reserve in Cork!

Mooney Goes Wild At Christmas! show image

Mooney Goes Wild At Christmas!

BirdWatch Ireland urges public to take part in Irish Garden Bird Survey show image

BirdWatch Ireland urges public to take part in Irish Garden Bird Survey

Researchers stunned by wolf's use of crab traps to feed show image

Researchers stunned by wolf's use of crab traps to feed

The 2025 Galway Science and Technology Festival show image

The 2025 Galway Science and Technology Festival

Join the annual Red Deer Rut Watch event in Killarney show image

Join the annual Red Deer Rut Watch event in Killarney

Step it Out at the Carlow Autumn Walking Festival 2025 show image

Step it Out at the Carlow Autumn Walking Festival 2025

Leaf Notes at The Shaking Bog this October show image

Leaf Notes at The Shaking Bog this October

Final call to join the Big Beach Clean 2025 show image

Final call to join the Big Beach Clean 2025

Galway public lecture explores natural beekeeping show image

Galway public lecture explores natural beekeeping

National Heritage Keepers Programme show image

National Heritage Keepers Programme

HedgeRow Fest: Hedgerow, Literary & Wellness Weekend show image

HedgeRow Fest: Hedgerow, Literary & Wellness Weekend

Biodiversity Festival and Honey Show Returns show image

Biodiversity Festival and Honey Show Returns

Celebrating Irish Meadows & Parkland Trees show image

Celebrating Irish Meadows & Parkland Trees

Explore the natural beauty of the Ahare river in Wexford show image

Explore the natural beauty of the Ahare river in Wexford

Breaking News: Public urged to look out for Asian Hornet show image

Breaking News: Public urged to look out for Asian Hornet

Important Notice: Hedgerows & Wildlife Contacts show image

Important Notice: Hedgerows & Wildlife Contacts

Explore More

NestWatch 2025: Sand Martins, Blue Tits and Choughs show image

NestWatch 2025: Sand Martins, Blue Tits and Choughs

Nature on One Documentaries show image

Nature on One Documentaries

Winter Birds: Waders and Garden Birds - December 30 2024 show image

Winter Birds: Waders and Garden Birds - December 30 2024

Mooney's Box of Docs show image

Mooney's Box of Docs

Terry's Nature Notes show image

Terry's Nature Notes

Nature Notes from the Archive show image

Nature Notes from the Archive

Mooney Talks at University College Cork show image

Mooney Talks at University College Cork

Back from the Brink Returns Sunday June 4th show image

Back from the Brink Returns Sunday June 4th

A Look back at Nestwatch show image

A Look back at Nestwatch

Derek is honoured by UCC show image

Derek is honoured by UCC

Meet The Team show image

Meet The Team