A.While not being an exact science, attracting birds can be done most anywhere as long as you spend a little time and effort understanding what birds want and need. A well-planned landscape that provides the proper habitat is the key. Providing food, water, shelter and a place to nest will reward you with lots of backyard birds. determine whether wing length (measured on museum skins), tail length (measured on museum skins), breast color (observed in the field), or behavior (observed in the field) could be used to sex Barn Swallows. Differences in wingchord lengths of male and female study skins were not significant. jeb.biologists.org 1 Department of Biological Sciences, University of Stirling, Stirling FK9 4LA, UK and *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. 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. 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. 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. Teenage boys take up so much space. And then they go, leaving a hole so big it threatens to swallow you.
Think like a bird to provide bird-friendly landscape; planning the right habitat is key
The Birmingham News – al.com, AL – Oct 27, 2007
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FIELD METHODS FOR DETERMINING THE SEX OF BARN SWALLOWS {HI RUN DO RUSTIC A) 1
DAVID E. SAMUEL Biology Department, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia 11
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Flight kinematics of the barn swallow (Hirundo rustica) over a wide range of speeds in a wind tunnel
Kirsty J. Park1,*, Mikael Rosén2 and Anders Hedenström2
2 Department of Animal Ecology, Lund University, SE-223 62 Lund, Sweden
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Studying the mystery of migration
Cyprus Mail, Cyprus – Sep 30, 2007
By Jane Stylianou
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BIRD'S NEST SOUP
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Bird’s Nest Soup is reputed to have medicinal properties. It is certainly very expensive.
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Pot luck for nesting swallows
North Devon Gazette & Advertiser, UK – Sep 26, 2007
THEIR nest has gone to pot, but a family of young swallows are happy in a newly improvised home.
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Rare birds find refuge
Orlando Sentinel, FL – Oct 13, 2007
Imperiled woodpeckers are nestled in a Disney preserve.
Kevin Spear | Sentinel Staff Writer
October 13, 2007
Nest lopsided as first chick leaves
Toronto Star, Canada – Oct 1, 2007
Oct 01, 2007 04:30 AM
Andrea Gordon
Family issues reporter
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Behind the garden gate
Athlone Advertiser, Ireland – Oct 4, 2007
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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