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School: Leargán Buidhe (C.) (roll number 14289)

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Larganboy East, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
Máire, Bean de Priondargás
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0110, Page 494

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    The blackbird was once at a party and he dipped his beak into a jar of thick honey and he has a yellow bill ever since.
    Other wild birds found in the district are the robin, wren, wagtail, green linnet, grey linnet, chaffinch, goldfinch, yellow hammer, blue-bonnet, thrush, swallow, lark, hedge sparrow, stare, crow, magpie, Jackdaw, snipe, partridge, [?] and cuckoo. The swallow, lark, stare and cuckoo are migratory.
    The robin builds at the trunk of a tree, the wren in a hole in the fence, the wagtail near a pond [?]
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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        1. bird-lore (~2,478)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Teresa Feeney
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Erriff, Co. Mayo