Ireland News API

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            "title": "National-scale acoustic monitoring of avian biodiversity and migration",
            "description": "Billions of birds migrate annually, triggered by endogenous behaviors but also by ecoclimatic drivers which are shifting with climate change. These dynamics play out over huge spatiotemporal scales, making monitoring of phenology challenging with traditional biodiversity survey approaches. In this study, over a complete spring migration season (April through June), we collected 37,429 hours of audio from 28 networked sensors in forests across Norway using a nationwide passive acoustic monitoring (PAM) system. We applied an open-source detection algorithm to automatically classify bird vocalizations; through expert validation we found the algorithm classified 57 species (14 full migrants) with at least 80% precision. Using these automated detections, we developed regional arrival curves for three common migratory passerines: Willow Warbler, Common Chiffchaff, and Spotted Flycatcher. We then demonstrate that PAM detections can be used to train audio species distribution models that map how species vocalization probability changes across Norway during spring migration. Lastly, we discuss how PAM can complement existing manual surveys to support the design and implementation of effective policy and conservation measures. National-scale acoustic monitoring of avian species in Norway reveals migratory species arrival patterns, demonstrating how networked sensors and machine learning can complement traditional surveys to track phenology at a nationwide scale.",
            "content": "We thank Tom Roger Østerås of Norsk hekkefuglovervåking for his expert opinion in validating BirdNET species detections, NINA field staff for assistance with audio recorder setup, and the Norwegian Environment Agency (Miljødirektoratet) for funding o... [1004 chars]",
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            "title": "Online sale features contrasting 1920s works by Irish artists Kernoff and Swanzy",
            "description": "Des O'Sullivan is fascinated by two very different works by Mary Swanzy and Harry Kernoff at Morgan O'Driscoll's Irish art online auction",
            "content": "At 21, Kernoff became the first night student at the Dublin Metropolitan School of Art to win the Taylor scholarship with this watercolour featuring a woman and child and an older woman on the spiral staircase of a railway station.\nIt depicts popular... [513 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.irishexaminer.com/property/homeandgardens/arid-41851074.html",
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            "title": "Esther McCarthy: I spent 9 hours and 59 minutes on a single app last week",
            "description": "I think I’ll just get ‘hypocrite’ tattooed across my forehead and be done with it.",
            "content": "Every time the bigger boys sit down to the table I automatically incant “get off your phone” without even looking at them. Most of the time, they’re not even on the phone and throw their hands up in the air and give out to me in between shoving seven... [3982 chars]",
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