School: Cnoc an Chláraigh, Séipéal na Carraige (roll number 14002)

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1. What the Birds Say (continued)

   

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   Lays 8 to 10 brown spotted eggs

   The Corncrake
   Builds her nest in the meadows and cornfields She lays 5 or 6 eggs
   The eggs are white with brown spots on them
   The nest is cup shaped and made of dry frass feathers and bits of wool

   The rook
   A large bird of a black colour
   Builds her nest on a high tree of sticks, and earth, and moss, and grass inside
   The eggs are of blush a green colour

   The Cuckoo
   A bird something like the hawk
   Grey fethers on top and white on the breast
   The cuckoo comes to Ireland in April
   She builds no nest but lays her egg on the ground and then takes it to a nest of some bird whose eggs are the same colour
   When the bird is out of the nest
   When the young birds come out the young cuckoo throws the other young birds out of the nest The mother continues to feed the young cuckoo
   The old cuckoos leave Ireland about the end of July

   The black-bird
   The black-bird is of a black colour with a yellow beak
   She builds her nest in a tree or a bush of grass moss and wool
   There is a lining of soft fine grass inside
   The black-bird lays from 4 to 6 eggs
   They are of a bluish geer green colour with brown spots on them
   She makes her nest early in Spring

   The Swallow
   She is of a bluish colour and comes to Ireland in The middle of April She builds her nest in May in the

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