BirdWatch Ireland is calling on people across the country to count the birds visiting their garden this winter.

A university study is finding out where garden birds sleep at night during the ... habits of four popular woodland species - the European robin, Eurasian blackbird, great tit and dunnock.

"We have a bird feeder, like most people," she said. "We noticed the big bird at the bottom of the garden and, at first, we thought it must have been a sparrow hawk, but we realised it wasn't when ...