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- Tags: Golden Plover
Waterlife, flora and fauna of the Lough Fad blanket bog to the south-west of Lough Derg
Tags: Atlantic Salmon (Salmo salar), blanket bog, Bog Sedge (Carex limosa), bogland, Cranberry (Vaccinium oxycoccos), Dioecious Sedge (Carex dioica), Floating Bur-reed (Sparganium angustifolium), Golden Plover, Hen Harrier, Long-stalked Yellowsedge (Carex lepidocarpa), Lough Fad Bog NHA, moss, National Parks and Wildlife Service, otters, peat, Red Grouse, Shoreweed (Littorella uniflora), Water Lobelia (Lobelia dortmanna), watershed, 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
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)
Meenagarranroe Bog Natural Heritage Area
Tags: afforestation, Bell Heather (Erica cinerea), Bog Asphodel (Narthecium ossifragum), Bog Myrtle (Myrica gale), Bogbean (Menyanthes trifoliata), bogland, cattle, Common Reed (Phragmites australis), conifer plantations, Deergrass (Scirpus cespitosus), Donegal Town, dragonflies, drainage, Golden Plover, Hen Harrier, Intermediate Bladderwort (Utricularia intermedia), Irish Hare, Ling Heather (Calluna vulgaris), Merlin, moss, Purple Moor-grass (Molinia caerulea), quaking bog, red deer, sphagnum moss, vicinity, White Beak-sedge (Rhynchospora alba)
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)