Fawn tagging at the Phoenix Park

Images of fawn tagging at the park in Dublin

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UCD students and the OPW's Phoenix Park deer manager Terry Moore (right) who are currently looking for this year's newborn fawns before tagging, weighing and measuring them as part of the annual tagging programme of the Park's newborn fallow deer fawns. Between 100-120 fawns will be born during a four week period through May and June and the team's aim is to number, tag and health-check them all. Photograph by Crispin Rodwell for the Irish Times

Dr. Simone Ciuti, assistant professor in UCD's School of Biology and Environmental Science, releases a newborn fallow deer fawn in Phoenix Park, after tagging, weighing and measuring the it. He is being helped by a team of students from the university.Between 100-120 fawns will be born during a four week period through May and June and the team's aim is to number, tag and health-check them all so that they can be properly monitored.Photograph by Crispin Rodwell for the Irish Times

Sun Jul 07 2019 - 17:23

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