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Sunshine Coast Daily, Australia – 12 hours ago
12:00a.m. 3 September 2014
| By Sam Benger

Two hundred bird of paradise flowers and 40 square metres of palm fronds covered Noosa Bain Beach yesterday , and from the air it seemed a flock of swallows was about to land.

The artistic masterpiece – an installation using sacred geometry and indigenous mythology in the shape of swallows – was created by local artists Tom Kneische and Michael Richards on Saturday.
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msnbc.msn.com Females will dump lighter-breasted partners By Robert Roy Britt Updated: 9:33 p.m. ET Sept. 29, 2014 Among humans, conventional wisdom is that women pick men based on more than just looks. Not so with the female barn swallow. She doesn’t give a hoot about personality. Guys, take note: Male barn swallows have red breasts. […]

.ehow.com 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 begin building. The latter is called the “exclusion” method.     […]

.oldandsold.com NED came into my study one summer day, when 1 was trying to write a bird article, just as I made a slap at a tormenting housefly and almost upset my inkstand. “Your intention was good,” he remarked, “but you aren’t as graceful as the swallows yet in your fly-killing. But how did so […]

eurekalert.org/ ITHACA, N.Y. — Scientists at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology are asking the public to help monitor the impact on native birds of invasive species, such as the house sparrow, by participating in a citizen-science project called The Birdhouse Network (TBN). In the mid-1800s, the little brown house sparrows were introduced into the United […]

hummingbird-house.com By Dan & Diane True Twenty-six Black-chinned hummingbird nests were observed over a three year period by my wife, Diane, and I in Texas and New Mexico. Some nests were in trees. Nesting platforms known as Hummingbird Houses served as sites for other nests. Hummingbird Houses were installed under eaves, porch ceilings, and covered […]

findarticles.com We studied the frequency of intraspecific brood parasitism and physical transfer of eggs between nests in colonially nesting Cave Swallows (Petrochelidon fulva) and Cliff Swallows (P. pyrrhonota) in south Texas in 2001. Although the eggs of the two species look similar, frequency of brood parasitism in each species was unaffected by presence of the […]

.findarticles.com Swallows keep eggs in several baskets Call it nature’s version of a baby left on a doorstep. Biologists have discovered that adult cliff-dwelling swallows sometimes carry one of their own eggs into the nest of an unwitting neighboring swallow, and then fly away minus the egg — a sneaky maneuver called reproductive parasitism that […]

Daily Vidette – Aug 22 8:48 PM Once again, the University Program Board will be sponsoring the Weekly Wednesday Lunchtime Special in The Bird’s Nest located in the Bone Student Center. The program will feature many local artists as well as nationally touring singers and songwriters. It will take place every Wednesday from 11 AM to 1 […]

Canada.com, Canada – Aug 28, 2014

Elizabeth Le Geyt, The Ottawa Citizen
Published: Monday, August 27, 2014

Although the summer seems to be slipping into an early fall, there is still plenty of interesting birding around Ottawa and in Grand Manan, N.B., and Machias Island.

Wilson Hum spent some time on Machias Island, in the Gulf of Maine, where the puffins, common murres and razorbills nest.
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