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

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Episode Notes

Nature On One: Talking Birds (11/05/26) show image

Nature On One: Talking Birds (11/05/26)

MGW Special: David Attenborough At 100 (Fri 08/05/26) show image

MGW Special: David Attenborough At 100 (Fri 08/05/26)

Mooney Goes Wild Monday May 4th 2026 show image

Mooney Goes Wild Monday May 4th 2026

Dawn Chorus 2026 - Sun. May 3rd, 00:00 - 07:00 (Notes) show image

Dawn Chorus 2026 - Sun. May 3rd, 00:00 - 07:00 (Notes)

Coming up this week on MGW... show image

Coming up this week on MGW...

BWI Advises Not To Feed Garden Birds In Spring & Summer show image

BWI Advises Not To Feed Garden Birds In Spring & Summer

Mooney Goes Wild Monday April 27th 2026 show image

Mooney Goes Wild Monday April 27th 2026

Mooney Goes Wild Monday April 20th 2026 show image

Mooney Goes Wild Monday April 20th 2026

Nature On One: The Common Frog, Rana Temporaria show image

Nature On One: The Common Frog, Rana Temporaria

Mooney Goes Wild Monday April 6th 2026 show image

Mooney Goes Wild Monday April 6th 2026

Nature On One: Nature's Stories Revisited (06/04/26) show image

Nature On One: Nature's Stories Revisited (06/04/26)

Mooney Goes Wild Monday March 30th 2026 show image

Mooney Goes Wild Monday March 30th 2026

Mooney Goes Wild Monday March 23rd 2026 show image

Mooney Goes Wild Monday March 23rd 2026

Mooney Goes Wild Monday March 16th 2026 show image

Mooney Goes Wild Monday March 16th 2026

Nature Nights, Friday March 13th 2026 show image

Nature Nights, Friday March 13th 2026

Nature Nights, Thursday March 12th 2026 show image

Nature Nights, Thursday March 12th 2026

Nature Nights, Wednesday March 11th 2026 show image

Nature Nights, Wednesday March 11th 2026

Nature Nights, Tuesday March 10th 2026 show image

Nature Nights, Tuesday March 10th 2026

Nature Nights, Monday March 9th 2026 show image

Nature Nights, Monday March 9th 2026

Tree Week 2026 show image

Tree Week 2026

Dawn Chorus

Dawn Chorus Sunday 3 May 2026 show image

Dawn Chorus Sunday 3 May 2026

Episode • 6 Hr 53 Mins • 03 MAY • Dawn Chorus

Dawn Chorus 2026 - Sun. May 3rd, 00:00 - 07:00 (Notes) show image

Dawn Chorus 2026 - Sun. May 3rd, 00:00 - 07:00 (Notes)

Dawn Chorus Sunday 4 May 2025 show image

Dawn Chorus Sunday 4 May 2025

Episode • 6 Hr 57 Mins • 04 MAY 25 • Dawn Chorus

Dawn Chorus Sunday 5 May 2024 show image

Dawn Chorus Sunday 5 May 2024

Episode • 7 Hr 4 Mins • 05 MAY 24 • Dawn Chorus

Dawn Chorus Sunday 7 May 2023 show image

Dawn Chorus Sunday 7 May 2023

Episode • 6 Hr 57 Mins • 07 MAY 23 • Dawn Chorus

Mooney Goes Wild - Dawn Chorus 2022 show image

Mooney Goes Wild - Dawn Chorus 2022

Episode • 50 Mins • 01 MAY 22 • Lyrical Bird Song

Mooney Goes Wild: Dawn Chorus 2021 show image

Mooney Goes Wild: Dawn Chorus 2021

Episode • 5 Hr 57 Mins • 02 MAY 21 • Mooney Goes Wild: Dawn Chorus 2021

Dawn Chorus Saturday 4 May 2019 show image

Dawn Chorus Saturday 4 May 2019

Episode • 54 Mins • 04 MAY 19 • Dawn Chorus Preview

Intercontinental Dawn Chorus Programme show image

Intercontinental Dawn Chorus Programme

Dawn Chorus Saturday 5 May 2018 show image

Dawn Chorus Saturday 5 May 2018

Episode • 1 Hr 4 Mins • 05 MAY 18 • Dawn Chorus Preview

Dawn Chorus Saturday 6 May 2017 show image

Dawn Chorus Saturday 6 May 2017

Episode • 6 Hr 4 Mins • 06 MAY 17 • Dawn Chorus

Latest Clips & Podcasts

In A Walled Garden In Meath show image

In A Walled Garden In Meath

Clip • 11 Mins • 04 MAY • Mooney Goes Wild

Remarkable Reefs show image

Remarkable Reefs

Clip • 18 Mins • 04 MAY • Mooney Goes Wild

International Dawn Chorus Day show image

International Dawn Chorus Day

Clip • 19 Mins • 04 MAY • Mooney Goes Wild

April 1st No Fools Day For Salmon Of Knowledge show image

April 1st No Fools Day For Salmon Of Knowledge

Clip • 12 Mins • 27 APR • Mooney Goes Wild

Mermaid's Purse Discovered By Schoolboy In Co. Kerry show image

Mermaid's Purse Discovered By Schoolboy In Co. Kerry

Clip • 8 Mins • 27 APR • Mooney Goes Wild

Blue Tits, Cuckoos and Woodpeckers show image

Blue Tits, Cuckoos and Woodpeckers

Clip • 11 Mins • 27 APR • Mooney Goes Wild

Nature On One: Talking Birds (Bank Holiday Monday, May 4th 2026 at midday) show image

Nature On One: Talking Birds (Bank Holiday Monday, May 4th 2026 at midday)

Clip • 3 Mins • 27 APR • Mooney Goes Wild

Dawn Chorus - RTÉ Radio 1 and RTÉ lyric fm | Sunday, May 3rd 2026 | 00:00 - 07:00 show image

Dawn Chorus - RTÉ Radio 1 and RTÉ lyric fm | Sunday, May …

Clip • 3 Mins • 27 APR • Mooney Goes Wild

Swallows And Wrens show image

Swallows And Wrens

Clip • 10 Mins • 27 APR • Mooney Goes Wild

Our Marvel-ous New Sig Tune! show image

Our Marvel-ous New Sig Tune!

Clip • 2 Mins • 20 APR • Mooney Goes Wild

A Chorus Of French Frogs show image

A Chorus Of French Frogs

Clip • 9 Mins • 20 APR • Mooney Goes Wild

The Cork Crow Conundrum show image

The Cork Crow Conundrum

Clip • 5 Mins • 20 APR • Mooney Goes Wild

Farmer Moth Monitoring Scheme show image

Farmer Moth Monitoring Scheme

Clip • 8 Mins • 20 APR • Mooney Goes Wild

Greenland Shark Washes Up On Irish Coast For First Time show image

Greenland Shark Washes Up On Irish Coast For First Time

Clip • 11 Mins • 20 APR • Mooney Goes Wild

Counting Rooks show image

Counting Rooks

Clip • 9 Mins • 20 APR • Mooney Goes Wild

Wild Dublin Art Exhibition At Rathmines Library show image

Wild Dublin Art Exhibition At Rathmines Library

Clip • 4 Mins • 20 APR • Mooney Goes Wild

Happy Birthday, Dr. Collins show image

Happy Birthday, Dr. Collins

Clip • 1 Mins • 20 APR • Mooney Goes Wild

Pine Martens show image

Pine Martens

Clip • 6 Mins • 06 APR • Mooney Goes Wild

Make A Date For Dawn Chorus 2026: Sunday 3rd May show image

Make A Date For Dawn Chorus 2026: Sunday 3rd May

Clip • 1 Mins • 06 APR • Mooney Goes Wild

Terry Has A Tree-mendous Time At The National Botanic Gardens show image

Terry Has A Tree-mendous Time At The National Botanic Gardens

Clip • 12 Mins • 06 APR • Mooney Goes Wild

News and Events

Biodiversity Week 2026 show image

Biodiversity Week 2026

People urged not to feed birds in garden during summer months show image

People urged not to feed birds in garden during summer months

Dawn Chorus 2026 - Sun. May 3rd, 00:00 - 07:00 (Notes) show image

Dawn Chorus 2026 - Sun. May 3rd, 00:00 - 07:00 (Notes)

Nesting Jackdaws (01/04/2026) show image

Nesting Jackdaws (01/04/2026)

Wildlife on RTÉ Today show image

Wildlife on RTÉ Today

How watching birds in your garden can be part of a bigger picture show image

How watching birds in your garden can be part of a bigger picture

Feral ferrets eradicated to protect Rathlin seabirds show image

Feral ferrets eradicated to protect Rathlin seabirds

Tree Week 2026 show image

Tree Week 2026

Nature Nights Live Returns! show image

Nature Nights Live Returns!

Brent Geese Sightings show image

Brent Geese Sightings

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

Mooney Goes Wild – The Great Big Garden Birdwatch Live Stream

The Great Big Garden Birdwatch Gallery show image

The Great Big Garden Birdwatch Gallery

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

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!

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

Full Episodes - Listen Back

Mooney Goes Wild Monday 4 May 2026 show image

Mooney Goes Wild Monday 4 May 2026

Episode • 53 Mins • 04 MAY • Mooney Goes Wild

Nature On One: Talking Birds (11/05/26) show image

Nature On One: Talking Birds (11/05/26)

Mooney Goes Wild Monday 27 April 2026 show image

Mooney Goes Wild Monday 27 April 2026

Episode • 54 Mins • 27 APR • Mooney Goes Wild

Mooney Goes Wild Monday 20 April 2026 show image

Mooney Goes Wild Monday 20 April 2026

Episode • 53 Mins • 20 APR • Mooney Goes Wild

Mooney Goes Wild Monday 6 April 2026 show image

Mooney Goes Wild Monday 6 April 2026

Episode • 53 Mins • 06 APR • Mooney Goes Wild

Mooney Goes Wild Monday 30 March 2026 show image

Mooney Goes Wild Monday 30 March 2026

Episode • 53 Mins • 30 MAR • Mooney Goes Wild

Mooney Goes Wild Monday 23 March 2026 show image

Mooney Goes Wild Monday 23 March 2026

Episode • 53 Mins • 23 MAR • Mooney Goes Wild

Mooney Goes Wild Monday 16 March 2026 show image

Mooney Goes Wild Monday 16 March 2026

Episode • 53 Mins • 16 MAR • Mooney Goes Wild

Mooney Goes Wild Monday 2 March 2026 show image

Mooney Goes Wild Monday 2 March 2026

Episode • 54 Mins • 02 MAR • Mooney Goes Wild

Mooney Goes Wild Monday 23 February 2026 show image

Mooney Goes Wild Monday 23 February 2026

Episode • 53 Mins • 23 FEB • Mooney Goes Wild

Mooney Goes Wild Monday 16 February 2026 show image

Mooney Goes Wild Monday 16 February 2026

Episode • 51 Mins • 16 FEB • Mooney Goes Wild

Mooney Goes Wild Monday 9 February 2026 show image

Mooney Goes Wild Monday 9 February 2026

Episode • 49 Mins • 09 FEB • Mooney Goes Wild

Mooney Goes Wild Monday 2 February 2026 show image

Mooney Goes Wild Monday 2 February 2026

Episode • 53 Mins • 02 FEB • Mooney Goes Wild

Mooney Goes Wild Monday 26 January 2026 show image

Mooney Goes Wild Monday 26 January 2026

Episode • 54 Mins • 26 JAN • Mooney Goes Wild

Mooney Goes Wild Monday 19 January 2026 show image

Mooney Goes Wild Monday 19 January 2026

Episode • 53 Mins • 19 JAN • Mooney Goes Wild

Mooney Goes Wild Monday 5 January 2026 show image

Mooney Goes Wild Monday 5 January 2026

Episode • 53 Mins • 05 JAN • Mooney Goes Wild

Mooney Goes Wild Monday 29 December 2025 show image

Mooney Goes Wild Monday 29 December 2025

Episode • 54 Mins • 29 DEC 25 • Mooney Goes Wild - Reports

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

Nature On One Documentaries

Nature on One Garden Bird Special – Bank Holiday Monday, 2nd February 2026 show image

Nature on One Garden Bird Special – Bank Holiday Monday, 2nd February 2026

Nature on One: Arctic Saxifrage show image

Nature on One: Arctic Saxifrage

Nature on One ChoughWatch show image

Nature on One ChoughWatch

Nature on One 'Irelands Wild People' Monday 5 June 2023 show image

Nature on One 'Irelands Wild People' Monday 5 June 2023

Nature on One 'The Mooney Goes Wild Dawn Chorus' show image

Nature on One 'The Mooney Goes Wild Dawn Chorus'

Nature on One 'The Bird Confernce' show image

Nature on One 'The Bird Confernce'

Nature on One 'The Dandelion' Friday 17th March 2023 show image

Nature on One 'The Dandelion' Friday 17th March 2023

Explore More

Archive Page show image

Archive Page

NestWatch Archive show image

NestWatch Archive

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