School: Boitheach (roll number 1238)
- Location:
- Boyagh, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Aodh Ó Dochartaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1100, Page 241
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- The Cuckoo
This is a very familiar bird. It comes to this country about the middle of April. There i usually a storm about this time of year, and it is called the "cuckoo storm." This is a very lazy bird. It neither makes a nest not rears its young. It lays its nest in some small birds nest and leaves it there for the bird to hatch and rear. You would very often see a small bird rearing a cuckoo ten times as large as itself.
As the young cuckoo grows up all the other little birds are squeezed out of the nest and the cuckoo gets all the care of the foster-mother - This is a bird which goes away to other countries. It is said that the corncrakes do not all migrate because very often corncrakes were found old holes in a sleepy(continues on next page)
