School: Béal Átha an Dá Chab (2) (roll number 13976)

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1. Bird-Lore (continued)

   

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   finch and linnet usually build in mossy banks and soft fences, while larger birds, such as pigeons, rooks and magpies build on trees.
   Hawks build at the edge of high cliffs. The cuckoo makes no nest, but strays through places, until she finds a nest belonging to some other bird; very often the hedge-sparrow, and there she lays her egg. Wild birds sit on their eggs three weeks, to hatch them. They take good care of their offspring feeding them regularly.
   The wren will feed from fifteen to eighteen young, without passing over one of them, and without giving anyone more that its proper share.
   Boys and girls should never rob wild bird's nests; they shouldn't even touch them, or the birds would forsake them, Very often magpies and rooks can be seen sucking little bird's eggs from the nests. Hawks very often devour young birds from small bird's nests, even before they are fledged, while the poor mother birds can be seen flying in frantic manner from bush to bush, screaming

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   Topics

   1. gníomhairí (~1)
      1. seanchas ainmhithe (~1,185)
         1. seanchas na n-éan (~2,478)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Maura Young

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   An tArd Glas, Co. Chorcaí