Zoology in Kerry
The breeding season, including Common Sandpipers, Redshanks, Kinged Plovers, Common Terns, Black-headed dulls, Lesser Black-backed Gulls, Red-breasted Mergansers, Tufted Ducks, Shovellers, and Great Crested Grebes. These species, in greater or less number, constitute the fauna of most of the lakes of the province.
On the mountains the Raven, Peregrine, and Merlin are familiar residents; Curlew, and Golden Plover, nest on the lonely moors. The Ring Ouzel, and numbers of Stonechats, and Wheatears haunt the heaths; and Grey Wagtails, and Dippers are familiar denizens of the streams. On lowland bogs the Lesser Black-backed Gull, and Black-headed Gull, have large colonies. The Nightjar is more abundant in Munster than elsewhere 
in Ireland. Among the larger birds which have recently vanished, or are on the point of extinction, are the Golden Eagle (extinct), White-tailed Eagle, and Marsh Harrier. The Hen Harrier still breeds among the mountains. On the coasts and rocky islands there are great colonies of certain gregarious species : Guillemots, Razorbills, Puffins, Kittiwakes and so on. In lesser numbers we find the Manx Shearwater, Black Guillemot, Chough, (still abundant in remote places) ; Hooded Crow, Storm Petrel, which breeds in numbers on the Kerry coast. One of the rarest breeders is Leachs Fork-tailed Petrel, of which a few eggs have been obtained on the Blasket Islands. The noblest and it interesting of the marine 
and the Little Skellig in breeding birds of Munster is the Gannet. It nests in only four spots the British Isles, and of these two are situated off Munster coast-the Bull Rock in CorkKerry (Bed and Breakfasts, Kerry, Ireland). On each rock there is a large colony. The most recent accession to the list of breeding birds the Fulmar, which has lately established itself. The breeding of the Common Gull is interesting, the Kerry (Holiday Apartments, Kerry, Ireland) colonies being the most southern in Western Europe. Among the inland breeding birds which haunt the woodlands are the Blackcap, Garden Warbler, (very local), Golden-crested Wren (common), Crossbill (local), Siskin, Tree- Creeper, Long-eared Owl, and Heron. As elsewhere in Ireland, the Woodcock has largely increased as a breeding species. Though the Turtle Dove is frequently seen in summer, the nest has not so far been discovered. In winter the fauna of the fields and woods is swelled the arrival from the east of vast flocks of such birds as Song-Thrushes, Blackbirds, Fieldfares, Redwings,,
Starlings, Skylarks, Meadow-Pipits, and Chaffinches. Among the birds which are known to have spread or to be spreading in the district are the Shoveller, Tufted Duck, and Woodcock, all of which have largely increased as breeding species ; the Stock-Dove, a recent arrival in Ireland ; the Missel-Thrush, which seems to have arrived only a little over a century ago ; and the Magpie, first observed in Ireland near the end of the seventeenth century.
The little Natterjack Toad is in Ireland confined to a limited area in Co. Kerry (Holiday Cottages, Kerry, Ireland), where it is abundant. The most interesting species in the molluskan fauna of Munster is undoubtedly the Kerry Slug. It is abundant over a considerable area of South Kerry (Accommodation, Kerry, Ireland) and West Cork, and in damp weather may be seen crawling over the rocks and feeding the lichens which grow on them. Being itself of a colour with black spots, it closely resembles in tint lichen-covered rocks among which it lives. Elsewhere it is found only in north-west Spain and Portugal, it is one of the most remarkable members of the Hiberno- Lusitanian fauna whose origin is discussed in the account of the Irish fauna in the Ireland volume of series. Next in interest come two Limnasas, L. involunta and L. raetenuis, extreme forms of the pereger group both confined to Ireland ; the
former known only f: the Killarney-Glengariff area, the latter occurring in the district around Belleek in the north-west of Ireland A closely allied form occurs on Achill Island, West Mayo. Another rare species, Pisidium hibernicum found in this Killarney-Glengariff area. It occurs ; in Galway and in Sweden. Muckross, near Killarney, is the only Irish station for Vertigo minutissima. It will thus be seen that the Killarney district is one of extraordinary interest for the conchologist. There are other interesting areas in Munster. In the Suir valley, Paludina vivipara has recently been turned up in numbers in a fossil condition in the foundations of the bridge at Waterford-a species not known as living in Ireland- and Helicigona lapicida, hitherto unknown in Ireland, has recently been discovered living at Fermoy on the Blackwater.