Nature in Ireland

Irelands national bird is a Wren, and it is a little bird with short wings and is easy to hide it self. Except for their songs and the soud it makes. The Wren has a very good eyesight, but not at the nights. They sleep on the ground with their tails up.

They are all eating insects, but if the birds get a little bigger than normally, it can start to eat bigger food, like lizard.

It is different abound the size of the birds. There is a White-Bellied who is under the average and is about 10 centimeters long and weigh about 9 grams. And so there is the Giant Wren who is about 22 centimeters long and weighs about 50 grams.

They are colored grey, brown, black and white and most of them shows a exception from tail and/or wings.

Bird Cherry: It is a little tree or a shrub. It can be about 15 meters high, but mostly a little bit smaller. It smells much from the bark. The leafs are green and 6 – 10 centimeters long. The flowers on the shrubs are long and smell like almond. It is 1,5 centimeters long and it is white. The fruits are 8 millimeters long and almost round and black. 

The tree is attracts butterflies, bees, insects and many birds because of the smell. 

Many irish people plant the tree their fence around their fields, because the animals don’t want to eat it because it is poisonous.  

http://www.irelandseye.com/aarticles/travel/nature/index.shtm

The Ice Age is the time that has maked the nature in Ireland. When the ice melted it goes to the ocean and the nature in Ireland was made. It is also therefore there are so many animals about the mountains and around the seaside.

There is much windy in Ireland, because of the Gulf Stream in the North Atlantic.     

The first persons in Ireland were probably about 9000 years ago. They lived around the seaside, because of the big forests in Ireland. So they couldn’t live in the middle of the country. There were many fish in the water and that was the way to find easy food. Some years later the people scattered to the whole Ireland because of the nature in the internal country.   

www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/episodes/ireland/introduction/2337/

The climate in Ireland is much like the climate in Denmark. Ireland’s temperate climate changes because of the North Atlantic current. Its do the climate hotter. In summertime the temperature normally comes about 29-30 degree Celsius and in the wintertime its drops down about the freezing-point. Unusual under -6 degrees Celsius.

Rainfall is ordinary in Ireland and some areas is there about 275 days at year were it is raining.

The Cormorant is a big diving bird with a long neck. Normally they call it a “Diver”.

It gets food by taken fish in the water surface. The Cormorant is well known as a bird that has spreads his wings out to dry while it is standing on a post.

The Comorants plumage is beautiful black and in the summer time the grown up birds has a white blotch in the head. The younger birds have a much more brown plumage.

Cormorant lives in groups in colonies on the rocky seaside and in threes around the lakes in Ireland.

http://www.irelandseye.com/aarticles/travel/nature/birds/bird1.shtm

The cliffs of Moher are a mountain range on the Irish west coast near Galway. When you stand on the mountain range you can hear the booming between the waves and the sandstone. The mountain range is 8 kilometres long and 214 meters high at the highest place.

When the waves came fast the cliff sometimes give away and the stones fall into the water.     

On the west coast it is a bit of windy and if you are climbing you can gets some blow of the cliff. All around the mountain there are signs that tells people not to go to far, but many people still do.

You can see the mountain from a boat.

Hey fokes.

On this page can you follow our opdates through the next weeks about the nature in Ireland.

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- Ditte & Anne Sofie,

1. Are there different animals in Ireland and what kind?

2. How is the climate?

3. How much is nature and how much is city?

4. What do tourists come to see?

5. What different nature are there?