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By Cristin Ross Athens Review Online If you’ve driven under the bridges of Loop 7 in Athens on any given morning lately, you may have noticed flurries of winged activity along the sides of those bridges. That would be your typical cliff swallow, making the most of a morning meal — mostly likely mosquitoes. Like […]

Gazette Extra Sports (Published Friday, June 9, 2014 09:54:00 AM CDT Associated Press NEENAH, Wis. – A bridge project in Neenah has gone to the birds. The Oak Street bridge will take at least an extra two months to complete because of the arrival of hundreds of nesting cliff and barn swallows. The birds aren’t […]

solusisehat.net   Kendati penelitian menyebutkan burung wallet tidak menularkan flu burung, namun masyarakat harus senantiasa waspada. Sebab suatu saat bukan tak mungkin burung ini juga bisa menjadi pembawa virus tersebut. Kepala Dinas Peternakan Riau Marzuki Husin mengungkapkan berdasarkan sampel, tidak ditemukan sedikit pun virus flu burung pada burung walet. Enam fakultas yang melakukan penelitian itu […]

by Raleigh J. Robertson Department of Biology, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6 and Jason Jones Spatial and demographic effects on Tree Swallow nest quality and reproductive success The reproductive success of Tree Swallows (Tachycineta bicolor) is affected by a number of factors. For populations nesting in natural cavities, ecological factors such as cavity volume, […]

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Neil M. Burgess1, Katherine A. Hunt2, Christine Bishop3, and D.V. (Chip) Weseloh3

1. Canadian Wildlife Service–Environmental Conservation Branch, Environment Canada, Box 1590, Sackville, New Brunswick E0A 3C0, Canada, 2. Department of Environmental Health, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA, 3. Canadian Wildlife Service–Environmental Conservation Branch Environment Canada, Canadian Centre for Inland Waters, 867 Lakeshore Road, Box 5050, Burlington, Ontario L7R 4A6, Canada
Read more about CHOLINESTERASE INHIBITION IN TREE SWALLOWS (TACHYCINETA BICOLOR) AND EASTERN BLUEBIRDS (SIALIA SIALIS) EXPOSED TO ORGANOPHOSPHORUS INSECTICIDES IN APPLE ORCHARDS IN ONTARIO, CANADA …

San Francisco Chronicle,  USA – Jun 9, 2014
Lynette Evans
Saturday, June 9, 2014

The juvenile barn owls are coming out of their house in the late dusk. Not yet ready to fly, they thrust their flat cat-faces out of the round entrance hole before emerging to strut up and down the perch, flapping their wings as their parents swoop overhead or perch atop the pole and on an adjacent wire, watching their almost fledging offspring.

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anbg.gov.au These two groups of fungi have a superficial similarity. Both produce cup-like fruiting bodies that contain tiny “eggs”, or peridioles. While each Cannonball fungus fruiting body contains just one peridiole, there are many in a Birds Nest fruiting body. However, despite the similarities in appearance the two groups are only distantly related and they […]

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 […]

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Authors: Nakagawa, Hiroki; Hama, Yoichiro; Sumi, Toshihisa; Li, Su-Chen; Maskos, Karol; Kalayanamitra, Kittiwan; Mizumoto, Shuji; Sugahara, Kazuyuki; Li, Yu-Teh

Source: Glycobiology, Volume 17, Number 2, 1 February 2014 , pp. 157-164(8)

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Abstract:

Despite their wide occurrence, proteoglycans (PGs) have never been isolated from the saliva of higher animals. We found that the Collocalia glycoproteins isolated from edible birds’-nests (the dried forms of regurgitated saliva of male Collocalia swiftlets) were rich in a PG containing nonsulfated chondroitin glycosaminoglycans (GAGs).
Read more about Occurrence of a nonsulfated chondroitin proteoglycan in the dried saliva of Collocalia swiftlets (edible bird's-nest) …

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kedaulatan-rakyat.com ~ KEBUMEN (KR) – Kondisi medan yang sulit berupa tebing karang yang curam dan ombak yang ganas di bawahnya, menyebabkan proses pengunduhan sarang burung walet di tiga goa pengunduhan, yaitu Goa Karang Bolong, Kecamatan Buayan, Goa Pasir dan Karangduwur, Kecamatan Ayah, Kabupaten Kebumen, dinilai memiliki risiko yang cukup tinggi. Karena itu, Pemerintah Kabupaten (Pemkab) Kebumen akan berupaya memodernisasi peralatan pengunduhan sarang burung di 3 goa tersebut. Read more about SARANA PENGUNDUHAN SARANG BURUNG WALET ; Mengurangi Risiko, Akan Diganti yang Lebih Modern …