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The LAPWING
The national BIRD OF IRELAND IS THE LAPWING
Interesting Facts about Lapwing Habitat - Carpenters inhabit wooded areas scattered widely throughout the world. feeding - Carpenter feeding is based on ants on the ground and insects in flight, although the vast majority eat insects in the hollows of trees, depending on the kind of carpenter it is. One exception to this is the Lapwing, which stores acorns for the winter months. reproduction - Lapwing lay between 2 and 9 eggs. The incubation takes about 15 days and within a month they are ready to be independent. The vast majority of carpenters are monogamous birds. The nest is a small hole in a field barely noticable by twigs and herbs, and is very difficult to distinguish. They lay their eggs at the end of winter, and the same pair can lay several times during the year. The color of their eggs is greenish gray with small dark spots. Once the chicks are born, the father and mother take care of them. http://www.nationalpedia.com/lapwing-national-bird-of-ireland/
The national bird of Ireland is the Lapwing. The Lapwing belongs to the family of spiders, which is made up of more than 200 different species of birds. Carpenters have the ability to strike tree trunks 20 times per second. The blows they give to the trunks of trees, mark their territory. Carpenters do not walk they jump. It has very striking plumage, white, black and red, although there are also species of carpenters of yellow and red color. Its skull is very strong, so that when giving hard blows they do not suffer a concussion and they have three eyelids, to hold the eye well and have no retinal detachment. Its beak is also very strong, as are the muscles of the neck. The lapwing stands vertically in trees and uses its tail to rest as if it were a third leg. Their feet are cigodactiles , that is to say, they have two fingers in front and two backwards. These birds have a barbed tongue, which is very sticky, and is up to four times longer than its beak, allowing it to hunt insects inside the hollows of the trees. The size of the lapwing varies depending upon the species. The largest is the imperial carpenter, which is up to 59 centimeters (23.22”), and one of the smallest is the carpacar bataraz , which measures 15 centimeters (6.90”).
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