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- Tags: Badger (Meles meles)
Lough Hill Bog Natural Heritage Area
Tags: Badger (Meles meles), biodiversity, Bog Asphodel (Narthecium ossifragum), bogland, conifer plantations, Deergrass (Scirpus cespitosus), Donegal Town, dragonflies, Golden Plover, Hen Harrier, Lichens (Cladonia portentosa and C. uncialis), Ling Heather (Calluna vulgaris), Purple Moor-grass (Molinia caerulea), quaking bog, quaking lawns, Red Grouse, sheep grazing, sphagnum moss, vicinity, White Beak-sedge (Rhynchospora alba)
Barnesmore Bog Natural Heritage Area
Tags: Badger (Meles meles), Bell Heather (Erica cinerea), Bilberry (Vaccinium myrtillus), biodiversity, Black Bog-rush, Black Bog-rush (Schoenus nigricans), Bladderwort (Utricularia sp.), Bog Asphodel (Narthecium ossifragum), Bog Pondweed (Potamogeton polygonifolius), Bog Sedge (Carex limosa), Bog-myrtle (Myrica gale), Bogbean (Menyanthes trifoliata), bogland, Bottle Sedge (Carex rostrata), Bracken (Pteridium aquilinum), Broad-leaved Pondweed (Potamogeton natans), Bulbous Rush (Juncus Bulbosus), Carnation Sedge (Carex panicea), Clogher, Common Butterwort (Pinguicula vulgaris), Common Cottongrass (Eriophorum angustifolium), Common Frog, Cross-leaved Heath (Erica tetralix), Deergrass (Scirpus cespitosus), Devil’s-bit Scabious (Succisa pratensis), dryness, Fir Clubmoss (Huperzia selago), Golden Plover, Great Sundew (D. anglica), Green-ribbed Sedge, Green-ribbed Sedge (Carex binervis), Hard Fern (Blechnum spicant), Heath Bedstraw (Galium saxatile), Heath Grass (Danthonia decumbens), Heath Milkwort (Polygala serpyllifolia), Irish Hare, Lesser Spearwort, Ling Heather, Ling Heather (Calluna vulgaris), Marsh Pennywort (Hydrocotyle vulgaris), Marsh Thistle (Cirsium palustre), Marsh Violet, Mat Grass (Nardus stricta), Peregrine Falcon, Purple Moor-grass, Purple Moor-grass (Molinia caerulea), quaking bog, Quillwort (Isoetes lacustris), Red Grouse, Round-leaved Sundew (Drosera rotundifolia), Royal Fern (Osmunda regalis), Sheep’s Fescue (Festuca ovina), Shoreweed (Littorella uniflora), sphagnum moss, Star Sedge (Carex echinata), Sweet Vernal-grass (Anthoxanthum odoratum), Tormentil, Tormentil (Potentilla erecta), Velvet Bent (Agrostis canina), Water Horsetail (Equisetum fluviatile), Wood Sorrel (Oxalis acetosella), wood-rushes (Luzula multiflora L. sylvatica)
Lough Golagh and Breesy Hill Special Area of Conservation
Tags: Badger (Meles meles), biodiversity, Bitter-vetch (Lathyrus montanus), Black Bog-rush (Schoenus nigricans), blanket bog, Blue Moor-grass (Sesleria albicans), Bog Pondweed (Potamogeton polygonifolius), bogland, Bottle Sedge (Carex rostrata), Breesy Hill, cattle, Common Butterwort (Pinguicula vulgaris), Common Knapweed (Centaurea nigra), Common Reed (Phragmites australis), Common Tern (Sterna hirundo), Deergrass (Scirpus cespitosus), dryness, Early-purple Orchid (Orchis mascula), fauna, flora, gneiss, Great Fen-sedge (Cladium mariscus), Grey Heron, Gull, Hazel (Corylus avellana), Heather (Calluna vulgaris), Juniper (Juniperis communis), Kestrel, Lichens (Cladonia portentosa and C. uncialis), limestone, Lough Cam, Lough Finn, Lough Golagh, Lough Lee, Lough Unshin, ommon Club-rush (Scirpus lacustris), peat extraction, Purple Moor-grass (Molinia caerulea), Raven, Red Grouse, Sessile Oak (Quercus petraea), Shoreweed (Littorella uniflora), snipe, sphagnum moss, Spiked Water-milfoil (Myriophyllum spicatum), Stonechat, vicinity, Water Lobelia (Lobelia dortmanna), Woodpigeon.
Tamur Bog Special Area of Conservation
Tags: Ash (Fraxinus excelsior), Badger (Meles meles), Bilberry (Vaccinium myrtillus), biodiversity, Black Bog-rush (Schoenus nigricans), blanket bog, Bog moss (Sphagnum spp.), Bog Sedge (Carex limosa), Bogbean (Menyanthes trifoliata), bogland, Bottle Sedge (Carex rostrata), Broad Buckler-fern (Dryopteris dilatata)., cattle, Common Club-rush (Scirpus lacustris), Common Frog, Common Lizard, Common Reed (Phragmites australis), Common Valerian (Valeriana officinalis), Cranberry (Vaccinium oxycoccos), Cross-leaved Heath (Erica tetralix), Deergrass (Scirpus cespitosus), Downy Birch (Betula pubescens), dryness, False Oat-grass (Arrhenatherum elatius), Greenland White-fronted Goose, Hare’s-tail Cottongrass (Eriophorum vaginatum), Hawthorn (Crataegus monogyna), Heather (Calluna vulgaris), Honeysuckle (Lonicera periclymenum), Irish Hare, Lesser Bladderwort (Utricularia minor), Marsh Pennywort (Hydrocotyle vulgaris)., Marsh Thistle (Cirsium palustre), Otter, Perfoliate Pondweed (Potamogeton perfoliatus), Purple Moor-grass (Molinia caerulea), Rhododendron (Rhododendron ponticum), Rhyncehosporion Vegetation, Rowan (Sorbus aucuparia), Shoreweed (Littorella uniflora), Soft Rush, Soft Rush (Juncus effusus), sphagnum moss, Tamur bog, vicinity, Water Horsetail (Equisetum fluviatile), Water Lobelia (Lobelia dortmanna), White Beak-sedge (Rhynchospora alba), Wild Angelica (Angelica sylvestris), Willow (Salix spp.), Yellow Water-lily (Nuphar lutea)
The conservation status of the Lough Fad blanket bog to the south-west of Lough Derg
Tags: acid grassland, afforestation, agriculture, Atlantic Salmon (Salmo salar), Badger (Meles meles), bogland, conservation, Cranberry (Vaccinium oxycoccos), Dioecious Sedge (Carex dioica), erosion, Flushes, forestry, Golden Plover, habitat loss, Hen Harrier, lakes, Long-stalked Yellowsedge (Carex lepidocarpa), Lough Fad Bog NHA, National Parks and Wildlife Service, otters, overgrazing, peat cutting, peatlands, Red Grouse, streams, watershed, wet heath