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   The wild birds commonly found in our district are the robin, thrush, black-bird, crow, seagull, magpie, lark, pigeon, yellow yealdron, crane, wild duck, wild geese, swallow, sparrow, cuckoo, corncrake, grey wren, mosscheeper, snipe, moor-hen, curlew, woodcock, peeweep, plover, golden plover, stare, stonechattin, willy-wag-tail, bullfinch, chaffinch, hawk, blind-bat, and the blue bird. The cuckoo, pigeon, crane, wild duck, wild geese, swallow, sparrow, corncrake, and the african hawk migrate to africe. The seagull and the curlew migrate to the shore. The robin builds its nest in a fence. The thrush builds its nest in a thorn hedge or in a whin bush or in the face of a ditch. The magpie and the crow build their nests on high trees. The cuckoo builds no nest at all but she lays an egg in another birds nest. A robin's and mosscheeper's nest is built with small withered branches, some moss and grass and hair and some wool. A robin lays from five to seven eggs. These eggs are very small. They are a white colour with tiny brown spots. The wren lays from twelve to eighteen eggs and if you milk her she will lay twenty-four eggs, that means if you take

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   History Edit

   Topics

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

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Charles Lynch

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Glencrow, Co. Donegal