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wildlifebiology.com

Daniel M. Tompkins

Tompkins, D.M. 1999: Impact of nest-harvesting on the reproductive success of black-nest swiftlets Aerodramus maximus. – Wildl. Biol. 5: 33-36.

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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The Mercury (subscription), South Africa – Oct 25, 2014 October 25, 2014 Edition 1 At last people are talking sense about the plight of the barn swallows at the Mount Moreland roosts (The Mercury October 19). In the past even some ornithologists have been heard to say that the swallows don’t matter, but put in the context […]

Saturday, October 28, 2014 Republican American – Oct 28 2:16 AM Copyright © 2014 Republican-American Tree swallows were streaming by at a brisk pace. I estimated more than 4,000 over the first few hours after dawn on Monday, clearing out of New England on a brisk northwest wind. My primary task was counting migrant hawks at Lighthouse […]

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Annotative Bibliography:
      Badyaev, Alexander V. & Qvarnstrom, Anna. (2002). Putting sexual traits into the context of an organism: A life history perspective in studies of sexual selection. The Auk,119, 301-310.
     Chek, Andrew A., Robertson, Raleigh J. (1991). Infanticide in Female Tree Swallows: A role for sexual selection. The Condor, 93, 454-457.     
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ecologyasia.com PUTRAJAYA: Swiftlet nests, reportedly reaping RM1.5mil a month, will not be allowed to be cultivated in housing as well as in public and recreational areas under guidelines issued by the Government yesterday.  The guidelines, however, are only applicable to birdhouse operators in the peninsula.   “Sabah and Sarawak have their own state provisions governing […]

biocab.org
Por Biól. Nasif Nahle

GENERALIDADES:

Hace cinco años, algunos nuevos huéspedes llegaron a nuestro laboratorio. A su arribo, algunos de nuestros empleados se preocuparon porque ellos habían oído muchas leyendas acerca de las golondrinas (Hirundo rustica), por ejemplo, que el excremento de las golondrinas podía causar ceguera; que las golondrinas eran las almas de los difuntos, etc.
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ncbi.nlm.nih.gov Ng MH, Chan KH, Kong YC. The edible bird’s nest extract from Collocalia spp. was found to contain a glycoprotein which could potentiate mitogenic response of human peripheral blood monocytes to stimulation with Concanavalin A or Phytohemagglutinin A. The potentiating effect of the extract was most marked at suboptimal mitogenic concentrations of these lectins, […]

Nation Multimedia, Thailand – Oct 29, 2014
The bird’s nest industry in Thailand is a conduit for money laundering and could be funnelling more than Bt100 million a year, according a study by the Thailand Research Fund.
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scielo.br/ Revista Brasileira de Biologia ONIKI, Y. and WILLIS, E. O.   Departamento de Zoologia, Unesp, CEP 13506-900, Rio Claro, SP, Brazil Correspondence to: Yoshika Oniki, Departamento de Zoologia, Unesp, CEP 13506-900, Rio Claro, SP, Brazil, e-mail: ewillis@rc.unesp.br Received May 3, 1999 ¾ Accepted March 16, 2000 ¾ Distributed November 30, 2000 (With 5 figures) […]

Desicritics.org, India – Oct 1, 2014 October 02, 2014 Dr Bhaskar Dasgupta Migrations have been a problem since the year dot. Whether we are talking about animals, birds, or people, we always have issues in some shape or form. In particular, when talking about human migrations, we have this to thank for the current debate about who […]