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School: Clochar na Trócaire, Ráth Luirc

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Charleville, Co. Cork
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0368, Page 400

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    insects food abounds. Migration is one of the greatest problems that naturalists have tried to solve. The birds never fly east and west but always south. It has been proved that they come back to the same spot each spring, and it is thought that they go to their old southern home in the Autumn. Another difficult think to understand is this : the young of some of the warblers leave this country a few weeks before their parents yet without guides or previous experience they fly along those same tracks that the old birds will follow later.
    The skylark's nest among the grass, and weaving corn is
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    Topics
    1. agents (~1)
      1. animal-lore (~1,185)
        1. bird-lore (~2,478)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Síghle Ní Laoghaire
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Charleville, Co. Cork