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19 DEC

Effects of feather lice on flight behavior of male Barn Swallows (Hirundo rustica)


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Auk, The,  Jan 2002  by Barbosa, A,  Merino, S,  de Lope, F,  Moller, A P

ABSTRACT.-Parasites may affect host behavior in a number of ways, including their locomotory performance. We investigated whether the number of holes produced by the feather louse (Myrsidea rustica) affected flight behavior in adult male Barn Swallows (Hirundo rustica) by video-taping flight performance of individuals during escape and level flight.
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17 DEC

The status and conservation of the Edible-nest Swiftlet (Collocalia fuciphaga) in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands


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R. Sankaran
Sálim Ali Centre for Ornithology and Natural History, Anaikatty PO, Coimbatore 641 108, India
Received 19 January 1999; revised 18 June 1999; accepted 22 June 2000. Available online 12 December 2000.
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14 DEC

About Swiftlet


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Edible bird nest, also known as swiftlet nest, is made by certain species of the swiftlet family. The nest sometimes was known as Swiftlet nest. During breeding season, the male swiftlet construct their nest with glutinous strands of starched like saliva produced by a pair of large, salivary glands under their tongue. The nest looks like a cupped hand or a half cut bowl about 3-5 inches in diameter.
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13 DEC

Occurrence of a nonsulfated chondroitin proteoglycan in the dried saliva of Collocalia swiftlets (edible bird's-nest)

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Hiroki Nakagawa3,4, Yoichiro Hama4, Toshihisa Sumi4, Su-Chen Li3, Karol Maskos3,7, Kittiwan Kalayanamitra2,5, Shuji Mizumoto5,6, Kazuyuki Sugahara5,6 and Yu-Teh Li1,3

3 Department of Biochemistry, Tulane University Health Sciences Center School of Medicine, New Orleans, LA 70112
4 Department of Applied Biological Sciences, Saga University, Saga 840-8502, Japan
5 Department of Biochemistry, Kobe Pharmaceutical University, Higashinada-ku, Kobe 658-8558, Japan
6 Laboratory of Proteoglycan Signaling and Therapeutics, Faculty of Advanced Life Science, Hokkaido University, Frontier Research Center for Post-Genomic Science and Technology, Kita 21-jo, Nishi 11-choume, Kita-ku, Sapporo 001-0021, Japan
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13 DEC

Occurrence of a nonsulfated chondroitin proteoglycan in the dried saliva of Collocalia swiftlets (edible bird's-nest)

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Hiroki Nakagawa3,4, Yoichiro Hama4, Toshihisa Sumi4, Su-Chen Li3, Karol Maskos3,7, Kittiwan Kalayanamitra2,5, Shuji Mizumoto5,6, Kazuyuki Sugahara5,6 and Yu-Teh Li1,3

3 Department of Biochemistry, Tulane University Health Sciences Center School of Medicine, New Orleans, LA 70112
4 Department of Applied Biological Sciences, Saga University, Saga 840-8502, Japan
5 Department of Biochemistry, Kobe Pharmaceutical University, Higashinada-ku, Kobe 658-8558, Japan
6 Laboratory of Proteoglycan Signaling and Therapeutics, Faculty of Advanced Life Science, Hokkaido University, Frontier Research Center for Post-Genomic Science and Technology, Kita 21-jo, Nishi 11-choume, Kita-ku, Sapporo 001-0021, Japan
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06 DEC

Associations of Cave Swallows with Cliff and Barn Swallows


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THE CONDOR Vol. 64 Associations of Cave Swallows with Clilf and Barn Swallows.-Selander and Baker (Condor, 59, 1957:345-363) found no instances of Cave Swallows (PetrocheZidon fulva) and Cliff Swallows (PetrocLelidon pyrrhonota) associating in Texas and suggested that where the two species are sym- patric, as in Texas and New Mexico, nesting of f&a is restricted to caves by competition with Pyr- rhonota.
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