Jackie and Daw
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Jackie and Daw was a video
/radio documentary
documentary by Vincent Hyland
that followed a pair of nesting Jackdaws
, named Jackie (male) and Daw (female), over a period of two years. The documentary won First Prize at the Prix Europa Radio and TV Awards in October 2000 for the radio version, entitled Nestwatch 2000, broadcast on RTÉ Radio 1
's Mooney Goes Wild.http://www.rte.ie/radio/mooneygoeswild/award.html
Through the use of concealed cameras, set up by Bryan Deegan, the documentary followed Jackie and Daw raising their young family. In order to produce the program, Vinney Hyland sat at the nest site from 6am to 8pm weekday and 10am to 6pm weekend for 180 days. The work was broadcast on television by UTV
and on the internet by wildlifeireland.ie.
Documentary film
Documentary films constitute a broad category of nonfictional motion pictures intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record...
/radio documentary
Radio documentary
A radio documentary or feature is a purely acoustic performance devoted to covering a particular topic in some depth, usually with a mixture of commentary and sound pictures. It is broadcast on radio or published on audio media, such as tape or CD...
documentary by Vincent Hyland
Vincent Hyland
Vincent Hyland is an award-winning digital media content creator. Awards include; Best website of the year and best consumer specialist magazine of the year for Wild Ireland - Ireland's first wildlife website and magazine...
that followed a pair of nesting Jackdaws
Jackdaws
Jackdaws is a World War II spy thriller written by British novelist Ken Follett. It was published in hardcover format in 2001 by the Macmillan. It was reissued as a paperback book by Signet Books in 2002.- Plot teaser :...
, named Jackie (male) and Daw (female), over a period of two years. The documentary won First Prize at the Prix Europa Radio and TV Awards in October 2000 for the radio version, entitled Nestwatch 2000, broadcast on RTÉ Radio 1
RTÉ Radio 1
RTÉ Radio 1 is the principal radio channel of Irish public-service broadcaster Raidió Teilifís Éireann and is the direct descendant of Dublin radio station 2RN, which began broadcasting on a regular basis on 1 January 1926...
's Mooney Goes Wild.http://www.rte.ie/radio/mooneygoeswild/award.html
Through the use of concealed cameras, set up by Bryan Deegan, the documentary followed Jackie and Daw raising their young family. In order to produce the program, Vinney Hyland sat at the nest site from 6am to 8pm weekday and 10am to 6pm weekend for 180 days. The work was broadcast on television by UTV
UTV
UTV is a television channel based in the UK region of Northern Ireland. The channel is the Channel 3 or Independent Television licensee for Northern Ireland and is operated by UTV Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of UTV Media.- Terrestrial :* Analogue: Normally tuned to 3 * Freeview : 3...
and on the internet by wildlifeireland.ie.