Birds
Found in 260 Collections and/or Records:
Note about the bird 'cathag gob dearg', 4 June 1887
Note about the bird 'cathag' [chough] that it has 'gob dearg + da chas dearg' [a red beak and two red legs] and that there are few about the shores [on Ìle/ Islay]. Also noted is that it has a '"Meag" voice'.
Note about the bird 'Clacharan-coille', June 1887
Note probably collected from Donald Currie, crofter, Ìle/Islay about the bird 'Clacharan-coille' [stone-chat] that it is 'dark + moves close to the ground' and also describes eggs and nests.
Note about the bird 'drollan' [petrel] and its connection with fishermen, 4 June 1887
Note about the bird 'Fara-chrodaichean' or 'Crotach-Bheag' [curlew], 4 June 1887
Note about the bird 'Fara-chrodaichean' or 'Crotach-Bheag' [curlew], that it arrives about Bealtainn [May], stays for a month and does not breed on the island but goes to warmer climates. The crotach mor breed in the moor in Instra Níl [Ìle/ Islay, Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire]. Text has been scored through in pencil perhaps to indicate it has been transcribed elsewhere.
Note about the bird 'Fulta-flier' [fieldfare], June 1887
Note probably collected from Donald Currie, crofter, Ìle/Islay about the bird 'Fulta-flier' [fieldfare] stating that it 'came here 10 or 12 years ago [1865-1867] breast fair + yellow back dark dun Irish Sea full of them at night'.
Note about the bird 'glaisean' [moss [chirper]], 4 June 1887
Note about the bird 'glaisean' [moss [chirper]] describing its nesting habits including that it has been found 'in P[ort] na haven in turf dyk[e]s asleep in winter with two or three ribeagan fiar geal na bheul [blades of grass] across to keep his bill open to breath[e] like polar bear with his paw in his mouth'. [Port na h-Abhainne/Portnahaven, Ìle/ Islay]. Text has been scored through in pencil perhaps to indicate it has been transcribed elsewhere.
Note about the bird 'Glaistean-tragha', 4 June 1887
Note about the bird 'Glaistean-tragha' [a small bird like a finch] that it is a shore bird which only eats food from the sea or the shore and does not feed from the land. Text has been scored through in pencil perhaps to indicate it has been transcribed elsewhere.
Note about the bird 'guga' on St Kilda, June 1887
Note about the bird 'guga' that it is 'black as raven'; that St Kildans bring five or six tons of guga from Stacali [Stac Lee, Hiorta/St Kilda] and then 'div[ide] them on the Leac' and that they are white for two years.
Note about the bird 'Ian-bollach a ghort', 4 June 1887
Note about the bird 'Ian-bollach a ghort' [eun-ballach-a'-ghart or common bunting] that it nests in mid-summer in the corn and will stand on the top of a [fon-] unlike the reamhag [skylark]. Text has been scored through in pencil perhaps to indicate it has been transcribed elsewhere.
Note about the bird 'Luaireagan' and 'smeorach' [thrush], 4 June 1887
Note about the bird 'Luaireagan' and 'smeorach' [thrush] that the former is a sea bird and that the latter builds its nests on land with material from the 'burach' which 'makes it water tight'. Text has been scored through in pencil perhaps to indicate it has been transcribed elsewhere.