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Blackpool Cork City a focus for O Otters Lutra lutra ra and probable stress fr from proposed fl flood relief scheme D. Paddy Sleeman, Simon Harrison School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University College Cork,

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Blackpool Cork City a focus for O Otters Lutra lutra ra and probable stress fr from proposed fl flood relief scheme

  • D. Paddy Sleeman, Simon Harrison

School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University College Cork, Distillery Fields, Cork

Denise O’Meara, Catherine O’Reilly

Molecular Laboratory, Waterford Institute of Technology, Cork Road, Waterford

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1950 attitude to Otters

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Changed attitudes to Otters

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Tracks and spraints

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DNA studies from spraints

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Summary 2011-2012

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The Future ?

  • Re-survey of Blackpool area; winter-spring 2016, using GPS and

digitial cameras, advised OPW, get local support, CCTV footage

  • At UCC
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References

  • ANON (2011) Threat Response Plan Otter Lutre lutra 2009-2011. Environment, Heritage and Local Government.
  • MACKLIN, R., BRAZIER, B & KAVANAGH, T., (2015) Lower River Lee Otter (Lutra lutra) survey 2014-2015.
  • Office of Public Works, Ryan Hanley Engineers.
  • O’LEARY, E.M., SLEEMAN, D.P. & HARRISON, S., (2006) Diet of urban otters Lutra lutra (L.). Irish Naturalists’ Journal

28:259-260

  • PETTIT, H., (1958) River of Life. The Eagle Annual No 8. page 142-145
  • SLEEMAN, D.P., & MOORE, P., (2005) Otters (Lutra lutra) in Cork City. Irish Naturalists’ Journal 28: 73-79
  • SLEEMAN, D.P., (2010) American mink (Mustela vison Schreber, 1777) in Cork City. Irish Naturalists’ Journal 31: 67-68
  • WHITE, S., O’MEARA, D.B., SHORES, C., O’REILLY, C., HARRINGTON, A., WEYMAN, G., & SLEEMAN, D.P. (2013)

A non-invasive genetic survey of otters (Lutra lutra) in an urban environment: A pilot study with citizen scientists. IUCN Otter Bulletin 30: 103-111

  • VIANELLO, A., (Ed) (2015) Rivers in Prehistory. Archaeopress
  • Email: p.sleeman@ucc.ie
  • ORIGINS OF IRELANDS’ BIODIVERSITY OIB: Ulster Museum, Belfast. 3rd and 4th September 2016