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Honey Bee (Female), ‘Worker’ (Female) and ‘Drone‘ (Male) ©Michael John O’Mahony Picture 1 Picture 2 Picture 3 Picture 4 Can you name these Irish Plants and Animals? • Picture 1 • Picture 2 • Picture 3 • Picture 4 • Picture 5 • Picture 5 Picture 6 Picture 6 SI1 Description Habitat found Bramble Bramble stems grow in the shape of Bramble typically forms a large arches and are covered with sharp part of our hedgerows in thorns. They can create a new root Ireland. It reclaims disused Common Name: Bramble or Blackberry into the ground when they touch land, laneways and ditches. It it. Flowers are pink or white. The can be found anywhere really; Irish Name: Dris leaves have three or five lobes. fields, woodlands, gardens and They produce blackberries. on the side of the road. Scientific Name:Rubus fructicosus Bramble ‘dies back’ to Growth begins in sleep during the winter. Spring when the sun This helps save energy starts to shine again. when there is not Brambles, like most enough sunshine. plants, get their energy from the sun! Blackberries are eaten by many birds and mammals, Life thereby helping to spread Flowers grow the plant’s tiny seeds from May to (that are hidden inside September. the berries) in Autumn. Cycle Fruit starts to form from late Once a flower gets summer through pollen from another Fun Facts! to September. Blackberries are delicious, and are packed Be Careful.... bramble flower, it will start to produce fruit. full of Vitamin C ! The plant also provides Do not touch the thorns; they can cause an infection if they stick in your skin; maybe a really important source of nectar (a wear gloves if you go blackberry-picking! Flower: May – September sugary drink found inside the flowers) for Also the juice from the fruit is a strong bees and other hungry pollinators. dye so don’t get it on your clothes! Fruit: August - October SI1 Draw a Bramble bush: Bramble In Winter the berries get eaten or Draw a bird eating Blackberries else fall to the In Spring the from the Bramble in Autumn: ground and the seeds Brambles start to will get washed into grow new shoots the soil. and leaves. Life Cycle By Autumn these flowers have turned into juicy berries, with seeds In Summer light inside. pink or white flowers grow all over the bush. SI4 Description Habitat found Dandelion Dandelion is a common plant with bright yellow flowers Dandelions are very and with hollow stems full of sticky white sap. The common in any flower heads are 2-5cm across. Once they have received grassland area; you Common Name: Dandelion pollen from their own or another dandelion flower, they can find them on Irish Name: Caisearbhán produce seeds, and thus change into a 'Dandelion roadsides and grassy Clock‘; these are spheres of mini-parachutes, each one wasteland, fields, Scientific Name:Taraxacum vulgaria attached to a tiny seed. The leaves are long and narrow lawns and greens. and have a distinctive jagged edged pattern. In Autumn the Dandelions start Dandelions stop to grow again growing, and take once the weather a break to rest for begins to get Winter. warm in Spring. The Dandelion Dandelion Clocks produces can be seen from flowers from Spring through to Life March to Autumn. October The Dandelion is a pretty Cycle clever plant! Its mini- parachutes are perfectly Bees and flies designed to carry seeds Pollen that is visit the flowers away on the wind. This absorbed creates to drink the Fun Facts! means baby plants, that new seeds. A group sweet nectar grow from the seeds, will of these new seeds is from the middle The leaves of the Dandelion are responsible not be growing in the a ‘Dandelion Clock’. of the flower. for the flower's common name which shadow of their parent! Pollen from other flowers rubs off these visiting comes from ‘Dents de lion’ meaning ‘Lion's Flower: March – October insects and onto the teeth’ in French. Dandelion. The pollen Fruit: April – October then gets absorbed. SI4 Draw a Dandelion Leaf: Dandelion The seeds rest In Spring the old on the soil plants grow again, during Winter. and the new seeds Draw the “Dandelion Clock”: start to grow into new Dandelions. Life Draw the bright yellow Summer flowers: By Autumn the Cycle flowers have turned into fluffy seeds. The seeds look like tiny parachutes and altogether are called The Dandelion a ‘Dandelion Clock’. grows flowers all Summer. SI3 Description Habitat found Blackbird Male or ‘daddy’ blackbirds are Blackbirds are found almost everywhere in black, and female ‘mammy’ Ireland; you’ll see them in gardens and Common Name: Blackbird blackbirds are in fact brown! countryside and from coasts to hills, although The males have a bright not on the highest peaks! They eat insects, Irish Name: Lon Dubh yellow beak and a ring around especially earthworms, but they also enjoy the eye. Their song sounds a berries and other fruit including apples. If you Scientific Name: Turdus merula bit like a flute and travels far leave apples out in winter they will definitely in the air. come to your bird table! Blackbirds build their Their parents will probably nests early in Spring – raise two more broods usually in March. The (small families) of chicks in nest, built by the the same year, before female, is low down in spending the winter, each any suitable hidden on their own again. place such as a hedge. ©Michael John O’Mahony John ©Michael ©Michael John O’Mahony John ©Michael Female/Mammy The mammy normally As the chicks learn what to lays 3-5 eggs in a A blackbird’s nest is cup-shaped and is eat, and how to find it, they clutch. She incubates made of grass, straw and small twigs. It is Life begin to explore further them (keeps them plastered inside with mud and lined with away, and become totally warm) on her own. fine grass. It can take two weeks to Male/Daddy independent just three weeks The male will bring her complete! The eggs that are laid are a after leaving the nest! Cycle food so she doesn’t beautiful blue green colour! get hungry. Fun Facts! The chicks are ready to Blackbird chicks in gardens are usually fed The chicks fledge after another 13- earthworms; woodland chicks are fed mainly hatch 13-14 14 days, but if the nest is days later. Both caterpillars. Why do you think that is? Do you think disturbed, they can leave parents feed and survive as early as the garden chicks are just fussy eaters? ☺ the chicks. Image by Dennis@Stromness via Flickr.com nine days old. SI3 Blackbird Draw the mammy and daddy Blackbird at their nest: ©Michael John O’Mahony John ©Michael In Winter most In Spring the Blackbirds will Blackbird finds a feed alone. partner and builds a nest Life Cycle The chicks are fed a lot, until they are ready to fly. In Summer the By Autumn they are big mammy lays about 4 enough to live without eggs in the nest. She mammy or daddy. sits on them to keep them warm until they hatch out as chicks. SI6 Description Habitat found Bullfinch Bullfinches are 15cm long from beak to tail. Bullfinches are common and Their thick, stubby black beak is the breed throughout Ireland, Common Name: Bullfinch perfect tool for nibbling flower buds off usually in hedgerows and trees and for crushing seeds. Males have a deciduous woodland. They Irish Name: Corcrán coille dark black cap, face, wings and tail, a pale visit gardens regularly. They bar on each wing, and striking white rump feed mainly on the buds of Scientific Name: Pyrrhula pyrrhula patch. They also have a grey back and native trees (e.g. Oak and beautiful reddish-rose breast and belly. hawthorn), as well as seeds Females are similar except that their breast and berries such as bramble and belly are more grey-brown than red. and dandelion. Paired birds often stay Bullfinches find a together over the winter, partner in the and will be partners again Spring time. the following year. The mammy or ‘female’ ©Michael John O’Mahony John ©Michael lays the first clutch of Most pairs will try to blue spotted eggs in the raise two or three middle of May. O’Mahony John ©Michael families or ‘broods’ Female (mammy) every summer. Life 4-5 turquoise eggs with brown spots, are Male (daddy) Cycle normally laid per brood, The parents teach the and are kept warm or young chicks how to ‘incubated’ by the collect food in the garden female. Fun Facts! or woodlands for a few more days. The name ‘bullfinch’ comes from the bird’s Two weeks later, chicks front heavy, bull-headed appearance. Chicks leave hatch and are fed by both the nest or Bullfinches were once popular cage birds their parents until they ‘fledge’ at are strong enough to because they can be taught to imitate flutes. around 16 leave the nest Image by Mark Hope via Flickr.com days old. SI6 Draw the Mammy and Daddy Bullfinch building a nest in a bush: Bullfinch ©Michael John O’Mahony In Winter all the birds will leave the nest area. In Spring young The Mammy and Daddy Bullfinches find a new will stay together. The partner. All partners other birds will live on try to find a nice place their own. to build a nest. Life Baby birds will hatch Cycle from the eggs, and Mammy and Daddy will feed them until they can In Summer the fly away. The Mammy mammy bird will and Daddy might have make a nest in a another family before bush and she will lay the Autumn.
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