School: Clongeen (roll number 4652)

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   Martins, sparrows build under eaves of houses. The snipe and water hen build on the rushes in a bog or marsh. The yellow hammer builds under a head of cabbage. (T. White) Foulksmills.) A blackstair builds in a pigeon-hole in the end of our dwelling house each year. (J Cullen). Bull-finch, green linnet + chaffinch build in ivy. Pigeons build in holes made specially for them in ends of dwelling-houses, these are fairly plentiful in this district. Written by . Jas Cullen Longraigue.

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2. Bird-Lore

   

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   The lapwing makes no nest at all but lays her eggs (4) in a bunch of rushes.
   (P. Treacy.)

   If a snipe saw you at her nest, she would take away her eggs to some other place in her bill.
   (R. Doyle).

   When young waterhens come out they don't stay on the nest but go down to the water.
   (T. White) Foulksmills.

   The woodquest's eggs are hatched in a fortnight.
   The wren lays up to eighteen eggs but she throws out some of them;
   (P. Ryan)
   if you gave worms to young robins

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