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School: Cnapach (Crappagh) (roll number 7529)

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Crappagh, Co. Monaghan
Teacher:
Mrs Horan
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0949, Page 220

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    they that its bill got twisted in trying to withdraw them. The bill of this bird is twisted to this day.
    Birds have their own way of conversing with one-another. Very often we hear one corn-crake answers another in the evenings. I suppose they are planning where they will build their nests and how. The cuckoo calls to its mate also, but it is not to plan nest-building.
    But of late years the corn-crake and cuckoo have got very scarce and we only get an occasional "crake-crake" or "cuck-oo" from the fields and woods.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. agents (~1)
      1. animal-lore (~1,185)
        1. bird-lore (~2,478)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Brigid Mc Goldrick
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Knockcor, Co. Monaghan
    Collector
    Peter Mc Gorman
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Drumary, Co. Monaghan
    Informant
    Willie Dunne
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Knockcor, Co. Monaghan