School: Glynn (C.) (roll number 4602)
- Location:
- Glynn, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: Maighréad Ní Giolla Eoin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0883, Page 342
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- (continued from previous page)Certain birds are harmful so well as being helpful. for example, the crow and wild pigeon, as well as destroying insects, also do damage to the farm crops. Birds such as the robin, wren, blackbird, or shush that build their nests low down within the reach of naughty boys adopt various devices for concealing them, while others such as the crow or crane that build in high trees adopt no such precautions.
The most common birds to be found around this district are the snow jackdaw, magpie, robin, crane, blackbird, finch, and thrush while we receive migratory birds in the summer such as the cuckoo, corncrake, and swallow. There is no doubt that in spirit of the great distances travelers in migration, the same birds, return in successive years to the same nesting places.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Kathleen O' Leary
- Gender
- Female
