Author: Swallow Bird Nest

05 SEP

Fall migration yields unusual sightings

The Daily News, Canada – 9 hours ago

CLARENCE STEVENS
The Daily News
This past week has been an exciting one for birders in Nova Scotia. There is no doubt that the fall migration is well on its way to working birders into a frenzy as a slew of unusual birds visit the province.  Many will be happy to hear that two of the current Hot Spots in Nova Scotia are near Metro. These are the Prospect area and the provinces Eastern Shore.
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04 SEP

Impact of nest-harvesting on the reproductive success of black-nest swiftlets Aerodramus maximus


DM Tompkins – Wildlife Biology, 1999 – csa.com
Tompkins, DM
Wildlife Biology [Wildl. Biol.]. Vol. 5, no. 1, pp. 33-36. Mar 1999.

Malaysian populations of ‘edible-nest’ swiftlets (Aves: Apodidae) have declined markedly over the last century. These declines are attributed principally to deleterious effects of nest-harvesting on swiftlet reproduction.
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03 SEP

Spare a palm frond?


Sunshine Coast Daily, Australia – 12 hours ago
12:00a.m. 3 September 2007
| 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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30 AUG

Birds getting busy as fall approaches


Canada.com, Canada – Aug 28, 2007

Elizabeth Le Geyt, The Ottawa Citizen
Published: Monday, August 27, 2007

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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28 AUG

The Beginner's Guide to the Tree Swallow Bird

A General Reference to America’s Most Popular Little Bird

associatedcontent.com

By Lisa S 
Published Aug 13, 2007
The Tree Swallow is one of North Americas most common birds. Tree Swallows are found in most parts of North America, however they will spend their winters in the most southern states and cross over into Central America as well.
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27 AUG

Egrets and swallows putting on show


Words on Birds , Steve Grinley
Daily News of Newburyport
The Daily News of Newburyport, MA – Aug 25, 2007

There are a couple of local spectacles happening in the bird world during these final weeks of summer. The egret and heron roost off Route 1 in Salisbury continues to attract crowds each evening as upward of 400 egrets, both great and snowy, descend upon the trees around a small pond just off the road.
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24 AUG

A Different Tempo of Evolution in Birds and their Parasitic Lice


taxonomy.zoology.gla.ac.u
Roderic D. M. Page, Patricia L. M. Lee, S. Anette Becher,
Richard Griffiths, and Dale H. Clayton

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Host-Parasite Cospeciation
A key question in the study of coevolution is the tempo and mode of evolution of the interacting partners. Is the association an ancient one, reflecting a long and intimate interaction between the two organisms, or is it a recent event due perhaps to a parasite colonising a new host?
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23 AUG

MDOT exits site when birds nest


DetNews.com, MI – Aug 20, 2007
What do you do when you’re the Michigan Department of Transportation and Mother Nature decides to set up a nursery in the middle of a construction project?
You tip-toe away quietly and let nature take its course. That is exactly what happened near Kalamazoo recently when a covey of bank swallows built nests in a work zone, as MDOT was widening Interstate 94.
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