School: Virginia (B)
- Location:
- Virginia, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: E. Ó Raghallaigh
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- (continued from previous page)young birds she would bite you. She builds a little round deep nest.
- March and April are the great months for bird migration and one of our earliest arrivals is the handsome wheatear.In Spring and Summer the male is blue-grey above; in Autumn it is reddish brown. The feet and legs, part of the tail, wings, beak and a strip through the eye are black and the underparts are white. The female is ash brown above while all the under (parts) colours are less bright.Like all the members of the thrush family to which it belongs the wheatear has a fine upright carriage and extreme grace of movement. It generally runs rather than hops and when at rest repeatedly flicks the tail.
- The robin is the most familiar of all birds. Its red breast makes the recognition of it very easy. The hen robin and the male(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Brian Matthews
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Virginia, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- Bernard Matthews
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Virginia, Co. Cavan
