The season of migration

Cape Codder · 10/6/2014 Friday, October 6, 2014 Ask the Bird Folks     Dear Bird Folks,      So, we know that summer is officially over. What group of birds is the last to migrate south?     -Donna, Marshfield     Good idea Donna,     I like that you want to base the seasonal changes on which birds are leaving. Most […]

The Emperor and the Cook:The Story of Bird's Nest Soup

soupsong.com (by A. M. Zukarnaen) Long ago in China, there was an Emperor who loved to taste different gourmet dishes made by the Royal Cook. Each dish was exotic and different every day. One day the cook ran out of ideas and desperately needed to find a new dish to prepare for the Emperor. The […]

Behind the garden gate


Athlone Advertiser, Ireland – Oct 4, 2014
While discussing her garden with a client lately I got distracted when I spotted a swallows nest immediately outside her patio doors, resting between the house and the down pipe. This nest was the hive of activity with mammy swallow feeding her young and directing traffic as the young birds flew in and out of their house. It looked like any home full of active teenagers.
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Parasitic Swallows

stanford.edu Cowbirds laying eggs in the nests of other species exemplify avian brood parasitism. Some solitary breeding birds (especially waterfowl) occasionally parasitize their own species, producing abnormally large clutches, and cooperative breeders often have strategies for getting other members of the group to incubate their eggs. Such parasitization of conspecifics had been thought to occur […]

Studying the mystery of migration


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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Nest delicacy birds successfully incubated

www.thanhniennews.com An indoor Salangane or edible-nest swiftlet raising pilot has shown promise recently in south-central Vietnam where local residents earned their living from selling the lucrative nests as an edible delicacy. Young edible-nest swiftlets The Khanh Hoa Salagane Nest Company has successfully incubated and raised indoor Salangane whose nests serve as a valuable dish in […]

Guam Swiftlet – BirdLife Species Factsheet

birdlife.org (as evaluated by BirdLife International – the official Red List Authority for birds for IUCN): Endangered Justification This species qualifies as Endangered because it has apparently undergone a rapid decline owing to pesticide-use and predation by the introduced brown tree snake on one island, although the reasons on other islands are unclear. However, earlier […]