School: Baile Mhodáin (roll number 12011)

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1. Bird-Lore

   

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   Among the many choice gifts which God has enriched this world, we shall find none more beautiful than birds. They are of endless variety and of various colours.
   The wild birds commonly found in my district are - robins, wrens, tits, sparrows, linnets, finches, yellow-hammers, larks, wagtails, redpolls, whinchat, warblers, swallows, swifts, thrushes, jackdaws, blackbirds, fieldfares, redwings, magpies, pigeons, kestrels, rooks, lapwings, cuckoos, snipe, moor-hens, gulls, curlews, starlings, and ravens. All the foregoing birds live in this country all the year round; except five. Three of them, the swallow, swift, and cuckoo, come to us, in the spring from the warm southern countries, where they have wintered, spend the summer with us, and then returning to the warmer countries, coming back the next spring, with the most unfailing instinct, to the same place. The redwing and fieldfare do things just he opposite. Their real home is in Scaninavia, but since it grows terribly cold in Norway and Sweden in winter, they fly across the

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      1. animal-lore (~1,185)
         1. bird-lore (~2,478)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Fred Wolfe

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Kilbrogan, Co. Cork