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26 NOV

Purple Martin, Swallows and Swifts of North America

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Chimney Swift – small cigar-shaped body – flies fast and high over urban areas or low over lakes and rivers. Brown body. Twittering call.

In flight, this bird looks like a flying cigar with long slender curved wings. The plumage is a sooty grey-brown; the throat, breast, underwings and rump are paler. They have short tails.
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24 NOV

Thanks for recognising plight of the barn swallows


The Mercury (subscription), South Africa – Oct 25, 2014

October 25, 2014 Edition 1

At last people are talking sense about the plight of the barn swallows at the Mount Moreland roosts (The Mercury October 19).

In the past even some ornithologists have been heard to say that the swallows don’t matter, but put in the context that the roost accommodates at least 13% of the known population makes the threat to the roost, if Dube Tradeport goes ahead, an international crisis.
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23 NOV

BREEDING OBSERVATIONS OF CAVE SWALLOWS (HIRUNDO FULVA)


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AT TWO CUBAN SITES Salvador Peris1 & A. Llanes2 1Department of Animal Biology-Zoology, Faculty of Biology, University of Salamanca, 37071 Salamanca, Spain. 2Institute of Ecology and Systematic. Ministry of Science, Technology and Environment of Cuba. Key words: Hirundo fulva, breeding, eggs, nest, Cuba.
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23 NOV

One swallow, and it was gone…


By Alan Hamilton
Times Online, UK – Nov 14, 2014

NATURE, red in tooth, claw and sometimes rump, is a cruel beast.

Birdwatchers who flocked with their high-powered binoculars, telescopes and long lenses to see a rare Mediterranean visitor to Lunan Bay, near Montrose, got more than they bargained for. They watched in horror as the red-rumped swallow was attacked and eaten by a Scottish sparrowhawk.

Local enthusiasts spotted the swallow, which had taken a wrong turning on its migration route from southern Europe to its wintering grounds in Africa. Word that it had arrived on the East Coast of Scotland spread quickly, and a large crowd had gathered to watch it flying over the beach. Read more about One swallow, and it was gone… …

22 NOV

Problems in the harvest of edible birds' nests in Sarawak and Sabah, Malaysian Borneo

ingentaconnect.com Author: Joseph J. Hobbs1 Source: Biodiversity and Conservation, Volume 13, Number 12, November 2004, pp. 2209-2226(18) Publisher: Springer Abstract: Due to the value of their nests, there is great pressure on the populations of black-nest swiftlets (Collocalia maximus) and white-nest swiftlets (Collocalia fuciphagus) in the Malaysian provinces of Sarawak and Sabah. The problems are particularly […]

21 NOV

Experimental manipulation of tail length in female barn swallows (Hirundo rustica) affects their future reproductive success


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Previous studies have shown no significant effect of experimental tail length manipulation in female barn swallows (Hirundo rustica) at the beginning of a breeding season on reproductive success or behavior during that breeding season.
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21 NOV

BIRD'S NEST SOUP, THE CAVIAR OF THE EAST © Duncan

Graham 2014 indonesianow.blogspot.com When Achmad Basuni and his wife Siti Mariah were building their new house in 2000 great good fortune swiftly flew in the window. Literally. A pair of swallows darted into the half finished kitchen and cast knowing eyes around the walls and rafters. Like all astute real estate buyers they knew exactly […]

20 NOV

Occurrence of a non-sulfated chondroitin proteoglycan in the dried saliva of collocalia swiftlets (edible bird's nest)

glycob.oxfordjournals.org Hiroki Nakagawa 1, Yoichiro Hama 2, Toshihisa Sumi 2, Su-Chen Li 3, Karol Maskos 3, Kittiwan Kalayanamitra 4, Shuji Mizumoto 5, Kazuyuki Sugahara 5, and Yu-Teh Li 6 * 1 Department of Biochemistry, Tulane University Health Sciences Center School of Medicine, New Orleans, LA 70112; Department of Applied Biological Sciences, Saga University, Saga 840-8502, […]