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garowk, garowk, garowk. Local and other names : 

 Hearinsew, Hern, Heronshaw, and (in Ireland) Cranes. 

 Gregarious, as many as eighty nests having been 

 known in a single tree. The birds return to the 

 same place (called a Heronry) year after year. 

 Not a very close sitter, as a rule. However, I 

 have known individual birds sit quite still whilst 

 the trunk of a tree in which their nests were 

 situated has been violently struck with a stick. 



YOUNG HERONS IN NEST. 



HOBBY. 



(Falco subbuteo.) 

 Order ACCIPITRES ; Family FALCONID.E (FALCONS). 



Description of Parent Birds. Length about 

 twelve inches. Beak short, much curved, and 

 bluish horn colour. Bare skin round the base of 

 the beak of a greenish-yellow colour. Irides dark 

 brown. Crown, nape, back, and wings greyish- 

 black, the feathers being edged with huffish-white. 

 Wing-quills almost black, bordered with light grey. 

 Tail-quills greyish-black, barred and tipped with a 

 lighter tint, except the two middle feathers, which 



