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birdsbybent.com Barn Swallow Hirundo rustica The familiar barn swallow is widely distributed over most of North America, breeding from northwestern Alaska to Mexico and from the Atlantic to the Pacific Coast, including much of Canada and the United States. Everybody who notices birds at all knows, admires, and loves the graceful, friendly barn swallow. No […]

pagebypagebooks.com Aesop’s Fables It happened that a Countryman was sowing some hemp seeds in a field where a Swallow and some other birds were hopping about picking up their food. “Beware of that man,” quoth the Swallow. “Why, what is he doing?” said the others. “That is hemp seed he is sowing; be careful to […]

bss.sfsu.edu San Francisco State University Department of Geography Geography 316:  Biogeography By Patrick O Connor, student in Geography 316, Fall 2000 Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Aves Order: Passeriformes Family: Hirundinidae Genus: Riparia Species:  Riparia riparia Description of Species: The Bank Swallow (Riparia riparia) is the smallest bird in North America. They are also the […]

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Swallow
Hirundo rustica
AKA: Barn swallow

Swallows are small birds with dark glossy blue backs, red throats, pale under parts and long distinctive tail streamers. They are extremely agile in flight and spend most of their time on the wing. They are widespread breeding birds in the Northern Hemisphere, migrating south in winter. Recent declines due to loss of habitat quality in both their breeding and wintering grounds mean they are an Amber List species.
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Savannah Morning News, GA – 1 hour ago

Sometimes watching birds can be like selling ice cream – a particular species seems to show up as the flavor of the week.

When I arrived at Carter’s Lake in pursuit of the south polar skua, the first birds I noticed were barn swallows swooping beneath the wooden beams on the lower level of the marina. Further inspection revealed the presence of several mud nests plastered to the vertical beams.
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ic NorthWales, UK – Jun 23, 2014 Jun 23 2014 Daily Post   A CARING youngster took a chick under his wing after yobs carried out a sickening attack on a swallows’ nest.. Horrified pupil, 10-year-old Tony Jones, saw a group of young thugs rip down the nest before stamping on chicks outside Maesincla School in Caernarfon. […]

BBC News, UK – Jul 6, 2014
A quarry owner who killed up to 40 young sand martins by bulldozing their whole colony has been fined £400.

In the first case of its kind, Andrew Jackson admitted destroying the nests at Braco, in Perthshire.
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Albany Times Union, NY – Jun 16, 2014 Scotia proposes donating doomed Collins Lake birds to food pantries; some say it’s a recipe for bad taste   By DAN HIGGINS, Staff writer Click byline for more stories by writer. First published: Friday, June 16, 2014 How do you cook this goose? There are a few ways to […]

hkfsta.com. 淺談燕窩的科學研究 Department of Applied Biology and Chemical Technology, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Shun Wan CHAN Abstract: Edible bird’s nest is one of the widely used health foods in Chinese communities. The market generated by it is increasing because it exhibits a lot of beneficial effects to human beings. For its high market value, […]

New Straits Times, Malaysia – Jul 12, 2014 13 Jul 2014 Chok Suat Ling and Himanshu Bhatt The lucrative bird’s nest business has come under fire from people who claim it is a health hazard and a threat to heritage. But entrepreneurs say the industry is misunderstood and should be allowed to develop, write CHOK SUAT LING […]