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   Great numbers of wild birds live in this country. The commonest ones are:
   The robin, the thrush, blackbird, wren, stony chat, and yellow hammer, the grey and green linnet, the lark, the gold-finch. Most of these birds delight us with their sweet songs. Other wild birds are:
   The crow, magpie, jackdaw, wild-geese, curlews, wild-ducks, water-hens. These birds do not sing.
   Other birds which come over to this country in early Summer are: the cuckoo, corncrake and swallows.
   The blackbird and the thrush build thei rnests in white thorn bushes; The robin builds in a shady bank; The wren builds in a white-thorn bush or in an old wall; The skylark builds her nest in a mossy bank;

   

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   Topics

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

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Sígle Ní Briain

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Edmondstown, Co. Westmeath