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   eight eggs in the island and on banks of the river. Partridges and grouse lay about six or eight eggs each.
   Signs of bad weather. The seagulls come here when there is a storm approaching the coasts and it is a sign that the storm will not be long until it will be here.
   Why a small bird follows the cuckoo.
   When the small bird follows the cuckoo, she has sucked the egg of the bird and has laid her egg in its nest.
   Why robin got the red breast.
   The robin has got her red breast becuase she rubbed her breast against the blood of Our Saviour. A sign of rain is - The crows turning and twisting going up and down in the sky.
   When the birds arise early in the morning.
   A sign of good weather is to hear the birds late in the morning. The blackbird has a yellow beak because he is the cock blacbird.

   Written by: Michael Cleary, Ballygub, Inistioge, Co. Kilkenny.

   Here are some of the names of birds - Magpie, plilippines, jay, owl, swallow, pheasant, curlew, hawl, wood-cock, crow,

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         1. bird-lore (~2,478)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Leonard Hayden

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Coolnamuck, Co. Kilkenny