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School: Lisball

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Lisball, Co. Cavan
Teacher:
S. Doherty
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1010, Page 044

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    in their houses for singing. The canary is often kept in a cage because she is a good singing bird. The blackbird is a good singing bird. It has a yellow coloured bill. It builds its nest in the low trees and the thrushes build their nests in hedges and low bushes. They build them with moss and wool and mud.
    The robin builds its nest with moss and wool and hay. It is a very small comfortable nest. The hawk builds its nest in a bog, it builds a very ugly nest. The magpie comes back to the same nest every year.
    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
    Florence Roundtree
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Gartnaneane, Co. Cavan
    Informant
    Mr J. Roundtree
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Gartnaneane, Co. Cavan