School: Edmonton (roll number 8100)
- Location:
- Edmondstown, Co. na hIarmhí
- Teacher: Mrs O' Brien
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- Great numbers of wild birds live in this country. The commonest ones are:
The robin, the thrush, blackbird, wren, stony chat, and yellow hammer, the grey and green linnet, the lark, the gold-finch. Most of these birds delight us with their sweet songs. Other wild birds are:
The crow, magpie, jackdaw, wild-geese, curlews, wild-ducks, water-hens. These birds do not sing.
Other birds which come over to this country in early Summer are: the cuckoo, corncrake and swallows.
The blackbird and the thrush build thei rnests in white thorn bushes; The robin builds in a shady bank; The wren builds in a white-thorn bush or in an old wall; The skylark builds her nest in a mossy bank;- Collector
- Sígle Ní Briain
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Edmondstown, Co. na hIarmhí