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Biology and Environment: Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy
Volume 125B, 2025
Royal Irish Academy
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Investigating the Potential Origins of a Newly Established Goosander (Mergus Merganser) Breeding Population in Ireland

John A. Byrne, Jens Carlsson, John A. Finarelli, Jeanette E.L. Carlsson, Ann Fitzpatrick, and Andrew Tighe
Fig. 1. Breeding records of goosanders from Europe. Data taken from the European Breeding Bird Atlas 2 website (; ), showing European locations where goosanders have been recorded breeding; retrieved 18 June 2025.
Fig. 1.

Breeding records of goosanders from Europe. Data taken from the European Breeding Bird Atlas 2 website (Keller et al.2020; EBCC 2022), showing European locations where goosanders have been recorded breeding; retrieved 18 June 2025.

John A. Byrne (corresponding author; email: john.byrne.2@ucd.ie; ORCID iD: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4419-3604), Area52 Research Group, School of Biology and Environmental Science/Earth Institute, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland;

Cite as follows: Byrne, J.A., Carlsson, J., Finarelli, J.A., Carlsson, J.E.L., Fitzpatrick, A. and Tighe, A. 2025 Investigating the potential origins of a newly established goosander (Mergus Merganser) breeding population in Ireland. Biology and Environment: Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 125B. DOI: 10.1353/bae.00011

Received 29 January 2025.
Accepted 18 July 2025.
Published 28 August 2025.
Copyright © 2025 John A. Byrne, Jens Carlsson, John A. Finarelli, Jeanette E.L. Carlsson, Ann Fitzpatrick and Andrew Tighe

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