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TDL Naik, Perajin Mebel Kolaps jawapos.com JAKARTA – Rencana pemerintah menaikkan tarif dasar listrik (TDL) dipastikan berdampak buruk terhadap industri kerajinan dan mebel di Indonesia. Kenaikan tarif listrik 30 persen saja akan meningkatkan biaya produksi hingga 20 persen, sementara harga jual tidak mungkin dinaikkan. “Kalau TDL jadi dinaikkan 30-35 persen pada Februari nanti, banyak anggota […]
Kolej IGS holds Car Treasure Hunt brunei-online.com The Academic Society of the Kolej International Graduate Studies (IGS) organised a Car Treasure Hunt as part of their Extra Curricular Activities last Wednesday, January 25, a press release stated. Six student groups participated in the activity, which saw them driving to various places of interest around the […]
Interest in China grows in Bangladesh chinaview.cn DHAKA, Jan. 27 (Xinhuanet) — Dhaka University, the biggest university in Bangladesh, has organized the Chinese Spring Festival Culture Week to celebrate the Chinese lunar new year, which falls on Jan. 29 this year. The culture week, spanning from Jan. 23 to 27, featured a series of activities […]
Tg Aru upgrade will see rival to Mengkabong: YB Sabah Daily Express Kota Kinabalu: The Federal Ministry of Tourism is now in the process of selecting a contractor to undertake the RM10 million Kampung Tanjung Aru Lama beautification project – the first of a two-phase project whose overall cost is RM40m. Assistant Minister of Local […]
Centre to promote textile-based activities in North East New Kerala Aizawl: With the aim to promote the textile-based activities and to empower rural artisans, the Centre has introduced special policy incentives for the traditional handloom handricraft and sericulture industries in the region. Handicrafts NE promotion officer T Rollee here said the government has implemented various […]
Afghans optimistic, but poverty still grips Kabul New Kerala KABUL: Afghans are among the most optimistic people in the world when it comes to their economic future, a BBC survey has found, but such confidence is not always easy to find on the streets of the capital, Kabul. The survey found 70 per cent of […]
City fails to find ‘proper’ place for Tibetan refugees Phayul By Asit Srivastava Lucknow, January 27 – IN spite of the intervention by the Ministry of Home Affairs (Rehabilitation Division) in the year 2000, in getting certain areas of land allotted to Tibetan Refugees’ Handicraft Union members for selling their woollen goods in the city, […]
Spouse of Philippine general visits Arts and Handicraft Centre By Radhi Borneo Bulletin Mrs Pilar Prescilla Senga, wife of Philippine Armed Forces Chief of Staff General Generoso S Senga, yesterday morning paid a visit to the Brunei Arts and Handicraft Centre in the capital. Upon arrival, the Philippine delegation led by Mrs Pilar Prescilla Senga […]
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While scanning old issues of Ostrich, I was struck by the photograph on the next page which shows a large colony of South African Cliff Swallow Hirundo spilodera nests on the walls of a building. I had never come across this type of nest site in this species before, and the fact that it was a man-made structure, but different to the culverts and bridges normally used, pricked my interest. The structure is an old mill building on the farm Wheatlands in the Graaff- Reinet district and it is reported to have been colonized continuously from 1896 to the year of writing, 1940 (Taylor 1942). Further investigation led me to an article by none other than Austin Roberts (1939), who gave the following account of cliff swallows nesting on buildings:
‘By far the commonest of the Swallows in the Union is the Cliff Swallow, which formerly nested in large communities under overhanging rocks or earth banks on rivers, but had found the eaves of buildings, bridges, railway water tanks and the like so much suited to it that it has increased enormously in numbers in recent years. In the early ‘nineties (That’s the 1890s! – Ed.) it nested in great numbers under the eaves of the ‘Gereformeerde’ church at Potchefstroom and also on some farm houses in the neighbourhood. More recently a great controversy raged in the local newspaper, owing to the local fire brigade having been used to turn the hoses on the nests to wash them away! The church community at Strydenburg, C.P., solved the problem of keeping away these Swallows from building under the eaves of the church and causing much trouble by the mess they made, by erecting fine wirenetting wherever they were likely to build their nests. Such favoured nesting sites are not confined to churches and large public buildings, but also private residences in towns in many cases – if they are tolerated.’
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sciencedaily.com Science Daily — ITHACA, N.Y. — Billing and cooing in an old and familiar love nest doubles and even triples some birds’ chances of producing progeny, researchers at Cornell University have discovered. Their study, which focused on Japanese quail, is the first to document what farmers and researchers have long suspected: that breeding is […]