School: Cill a' Lachtáin
- Location:
- Killallaghtan, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Seosamh Ó hAllmhuráin
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- (continued from previous page)Wren: Nest: Builds her nest in an old bush. of moss buried with hay with a roof.
Eggs: Sixteen in number colour spotted brown. Three weeks to hatch.
Flight: Flys very low through the ditches never flys in the open.
Stories: The wren is King of the birds. All the birds held meeting to select a King. They said the best way to do t was to use which bird would fly the highest. When the eagle was at her highest the wren flew out from under her wing and up higher than she so the wren was made King of the birds.
Speech: She sings
Thrush: Nest: Made of hay, moss, mud, lined with hair. Builds in an old bush on hedge
Eggs: Spotted white, five in number, Three weeks to hatch.
Flight: Low and quickly
Speech: A loud whistling.
Cornerake: Nest: Builds her nest in a meadow of field of corn
Eggs: Thirteen or fourteen. colour spotted brown. Three weeks to hatch.
Flight: Low through the grass. She migrated in winter
Speech: Corncrake, corncrake
Cuckoo: Eggs: Lays her eggs in another birds nest.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Shaughnessy
- Gender
- Female
- Collector
- Maudie Fahey
- Gender
- Female
- Collector
- Michael Curley
- Gender
- Male
