Category: Articles

14 JUL

Building Nest Boxes For Alaska's Bug Eating Swallows


alaskaoutdoorjournal.com
Swallows are an enjoyable species of wildlife to have around the yard. In addition to their entertaining acrobatics they are wonderful bug eaters, especially for mosquitos here in Alaska. The Violet Green swallow and tree swallow migrate to southcentral Alaska around May 1st. In the wild they chose to nest in abandoned woodpecker nest sites but these are relatively rare and so the birds will take up residence in anything that meets their requirements.
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14 JUL

Cliff Swallow, Petrochelidon pyrrhonota – Length 5 1/2

“by Lisa Myers

letsgobirding.com
Developing open space often negatively impacts wildlife,
but for the Cliff Swallow this was not the case! Because
of their preference for building nests on vertical surfaces
like cliffs, this swallow has benefited by suburbia, as it now
utilizes man-made structures like bridges and buildings.
In fact, there are more Cliff Swallows today than when the
pioneers settled the west.
Cliff Swallows are usually found near water as they use
mud to build their nests. They take this mud in their mouth
to their nest location. It is here that they build a tubular shaped
nest and fill it with feathers and grass. Often the swallows will
build their nests in large colonies. One colony consisted of
over 3,700 nests!
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14 JUL

MISSION SAN JUAN CAPISTRANOand the Legend of the Swallows


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San Juan Capistrano was known as the “Jewel of the Missions,” and was founded November 1, 1776, by Father Junipero Serra. It was a pretentious establishment with many workshops, loom rooms, tallow vats, etc. It had the most important and pretentious stone church of the whole chain of Missions founded by Serra. In 1819, there were over 31,000 animals, cattle, sheep, horses, mules, goats and pigs on the livestock rolls, owned by the Mission, and in 1812, the year of the disastrous earthquake, there were 1361 Indian “neophytes” under the care of the padres. (It is widely known in California that the natives were treated like slaves, and were actually locked indoors at night).
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13 JUL

Town attracts unique variety of swallows


Greenwich Time, CT – Jul 6, 2014
By Michael Dinan
Staff Writer

Published July 6 2014

Brian O’Toole stepped over a guardrail at East Putnam Avenue yesterday morning and skidded down a worn path toward the Mianus River. He came to the edge of a concrete embankment, lifted his binoculars and peered into the steel underbelly of the Post Road overpass, cars rumbling overhead.
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13 JUL

Nesting Habits Of The Barn Swalow ( Hirunda Rustica)


amnh.org
On December 31, 2000, I went on an expedition up a ladder to examine two barn swallow nests. The nests are right outside my front door, on opposite corners of my family’s front porch, here in Gallup, New Mexico. My original plan was to take the nests apart to see what items the swallows had used for their nests. But earlier in December, when I started to read about barn swallows, I learned how much work is put into the nests, and I decided not to take the nests apart. Instead, I examined the nests from a ladder.
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13 JUL

Memikat Walet dengan Soundsystem


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BERBAGAI cara dilakukan orang untuk memancing walet agar mau bersarang dan betah di “rumah walet”; mulai dari meletakkan telur, piyik atau kotoran walet, membuat sarang imitasi, menyemprot dengan parfum pemikat, memasang kayu khusus tempelan hingga memanf
Soundsystem and CD? Are you kidding? Apakah walet-walet disuruh nyanyi di panggung kemudian direkam ke dalam keping CD (compact disc), lantas CD-nya dijual di toko-toko kaset/CD? Memang mirip-mirip seperti itu, tapi tidak persis demikian.
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12 JUL

Question: if one swallow doesn’t make a summer, what about none?

Times Online 5/27/2014 Opinion – Simon Barnes The Times Wild Notebook by Simon Barnes THERE IS AN emotion felt by nature-lovers of the 21st century that was never felt in previous ages, not by the greatest scientific observers nor by the finest poets. And that is relief, a feeling perfectly caught by Ted Hughes (admittedly […]

12 JUL

Nests and materials topic of July 15 event


Monroe Times – Jul 10 12:04 PM
Published Monday, July 10, 2014 11:38:44 AM Central Time

NEW GLARUS — How often do we find birds’ nests after the leaves have left the trees in the fall and wonder “What bird made this nest?” Bird’s nests come in many shapes and sizes. They can be found in trees, on the ground, inside of hollow trees and hanging from branches. Some birds build a new nest every year; others often repair old nests and use them year after year. Nesting materials encompass the range of the obvious twigs, grass or mud to the industrious use of many surprising man-made objects.
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