School: Mulhuddart (roll number 16675)

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1. Bird-Lore

   

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   The principal wild birds around this district are; Crows, blackbirds, thrushes, wagtails, robins, magpies, swallows, corncrakes, cuckoo, sparrows, water-hens, finches, wild-ducks, larks, starlings, linnets, kingfishers, pigeons, jackdaws, scaldcrows, wrens, hawks, plovers, snipes, cranes, partridges, pheasants, yellow-hammers, stone-chats.
   The birds that build their nests in these different places are:-
   In trees = Crows, jackdaws, scaldcrows, pigeons, starlings,
   finches, hawks, magpies.
   In hedges = Blackbirds, thrushes, sparrows,
   In House Eves= Swallows, house sparrows.
   In River banks = Wild ducks, cranes, water-hens, and Kingfishers
   In Banks = Robins, Linnets, wagtail,
   On the ground = Larks, snipes, Pheasants, corncrakes and Plovers
   In Walls = Stonechats.
   In chimneys = Crows and jackdaws.
   The materials of the nests are:-
   The birds that build in the trees make their nests of sticks which are kept together with clay and

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

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Esther Daly

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Powerstown, Co. Dublin