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Kirsty J. Park1,*, Mikael Rosén2 and Anders Hedenström2

1 Department of Biological Sciences, University of Stirling, Stirling FK9 4LA, UK and
2 Department of Animal Ecology, Lund University, SE-223 62 Lund, Sweden

*Author for correspondence (e-mail: k.j.park@stir.ac.uk)

Two barn swallows (Hirundo rustica) flying in the Lund wind tunnel were filmed using synchronised high-speed cameras to obtain posterior, ventral and lateral views of the birds in horizontal flapping flight.
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Cyprus Mail, Cyprus – Sep 30, 2014
By Jane Stylianou

The amazing movement of birds around the globe has fascinated people for centuries

BIRD MIGRATION has fascinated people for centuries. No humans can equal the movements of some birds on migration. For example, no human population moves each year as far as the Arctic Tern (Sterna paradisaea) which breeds in the Arctic and winters in the Antarctic, travelling between the poles twice a year.
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Bird’s Nest Soup is reputed to have medicinal properties. It is certainly very expensive.

While on a cruise in the Andaman sea off the coast of Thailand near Phuket, we stopped at an island where we visited a cave. The cave had a very high roof on which swallows built their nests.
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ehow.com Rate This Article: Thanks. Your vote has been counted. Difficulty: Moderate When swallows migrate in spring, they immediately begin looking for textured surfaces to attach mud nests to. Keeping nests from being built on the eaves of your house involves dealing with each nest as it’s constructed, or denying the birds access before they […]

.findarticles.com Auk, The,  Jul 2002  by Chaplin, Susan B,  Cervenka, Mora L,  Mickelson, Alison C ABSTRACT.-We continuously recorded temperatures of the nest cup (T^sub n^) and air (T^sub a^) just outside the nest box throughout development of Tree Swallow (Tachycineta bicolor) chicks in east-central Minnesota. Brood size was manipulated (three or six chicks per nest) […]

Sunday Times – Oct 15 10:14 PM By Sy Lerman All that was in tune for Moroka Swallows during their late 2-1 Premier League defeat against a lively Jomo Cosmos at Germiston Stadium on Sunday afternoon was the club’s entertaining brass band. While the Birds only seemed to play with urgency and purpose while trailing, the young […]

North Devon Gazette & Advertiser, UK – Sep 26, 2014
THEIR nest has gone to pot, but a family of young swallows are happy in a newly improvised home.

Warren and Margaret Golder of St Giles-in-the-Wood have welcomed the swallows to nest in their “tea house” in their Japanese style garden for the past three years.
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ecotravel.co.za The Blue Swallow is an ambassador for a vital South African ecosystem namely grasslands. The South African grasslands form the major portion of our water catchment areas. More than 60% of the Grassland Biome has already been modified – forestry and agriculture playing largest roles. In South Africa only 2,23% of the Grassland Biome […]

Orlando Sentinel, FL – Oct 13, 2014
Imperiled woodpeckers are nestled in a Disney preserve.
Kevin Spear | Sentinel Staff Writer
October 13, 2014

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accessmylibrary.com Author: Harrison, George H. Source: Birder’s World COPYRIGHT 2004 Kalmbach Publishing Company One swallow maketh not summer,” wrote the English playwright John Heywood in 1546, but for me, one swallow, the first Barn Swallow of the season, made it summer at my Grandfather Hill’s farm near Leisureville, Pennsylvania. I spent many of my boyhood summers […]