Birds getting busy as fall approaches


Canada.com, Canada – Aug 28, 2014

Elizabeth Le Geyt, The Ottawa Citizen
Published: Monday, August 27, 2014

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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Recipe: Bird's Nest Snacks

recipelink.com No sooner do I ask for it than I find it…here it is for anyone who might want it: Bird’s Nest Snacks 3 cups miniature marshmallows 3 tbsp. butter 2 tbsp. peanut butter 1 can (5 oz.) chow mein noodles 36 pastel jelly beans or M & M’s 12 pastel paper cupcake liners In […]

Beef and Broccoli on a Bird's Nest

emr.cs.uiuc.edu This stir-fried dish is served in a nest made from fried bean threads. Don’t hesitate to try it – it’s not very difficult, but it tends to be messy, so organize your cooking area, and clean the splashed oil as quickly as possible. It’s well worth the extra trouble. I like to serve this […]

Brazos Field Research Station Research Program Environmental Pollution of the Rio Grande/Rio Bravo: Using Cliff and Cave Swallows as Pollution Indicators

cerc.usgs.gov Over the last five years the Brazos Field Research Station research with swallows along the Rio Grande has resulted in the following four projects: • Cave and Cliff Swallows as Indicators of Exposure and Effects of Environmental Contaminants on Birds from the Rio Grande, Texas (1999-2001)  Master’s Thesis by: Daniel Musquiz, Department of Wildlife […]

The Beginner's Guide to the Tree Swallow Bird

A General Reference to America’s Most Popular Little Bird

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By Lisa S 
Published Aug 13, 2014
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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Egrets and swallows putting on show


Words on Birds , Steve Grinley
Daily News of Newburyport
The Daily News of Newburyport, MA – Aug 25, 2014

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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Nesting

rspb.org.uk Swallows were traditionally cave nesters, building mud nests on ledges in caves, and even inside hollow trees. Since Neolithic times they used artificial habitats and now most nest around human habitation. The close association with people has allowed the bird to expand its range greatly through the availability of new sites. They prefer to […]

BREEDING OBSERVATIONS OF CAVE SWA

ORNITOLOGIA NEOTROPICAL 9: 209–212, 1998 © The Neotropical Ornithological Society Salvador Peris & A. Llanes1Department of Animal Biology-Zoology, Faculty of Biology, University of Salamanca, 37071 Salamanca, Spain. 2Institute of Ecology and Systematic. Ministry of Science, Technology and Environment of Cuba. 209 INTRODUCTION Following to Ridgely & Tudor (1989), we considered the Cave Swallow (Hirundo fulva) […]

The Swallow Cave

kmtrip.net Known as one of “the biggest and most splendid cave in Asia”, the Swallow Cave Scenic Region is located in the mountains 30 km east of Jianshui, and consists of a dry cave, a water cave and a 30,000-square-meter natural forest, with a total area of 100,000 square meters. Every year between spring and […]