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2014 IUCN Red List Category (as evaluated by BirdLife International – the official Red List Authority for birds for IUCN): Near Threatened
Family/Sub-family Apodidae
Species name author (Gmelin, 1789)
Taxonomic source(s) Dowsett and Forbes-Watson (1993), Sibley and Monroe (1990, 1993)
Summary Collocalia francica breeds colonially in caves and lava tunnels3 in Réunion (to France) and Mauritius. In the 1970s, the species was much less common on Réunion than Mauritius4.
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Cliff swallows are slender, sleek birds well known for their long migration. Cliff swallows spend their winters in South America and summers in North America. They arrive in or around April. They are very territorial and will always attempt to come back to the same nesting site. The cliff swallow has made a very successful switch from cliffs to manmade structures for nest placement. Increased insect population from modern agriculture and shelter created by manmade structures are two reasons given for this transition. The cliff swallow now faces strong competition from the introduced house sparrow for food and shelter. This may be why their numbers appear to be dwindling. The cliff swallow is a protected species and their arrival is a sign of spring for many.
Read more about Problem Birds: Cliff & Barn Swallow (Petrochelidon pyrrhonota) …

prbo.org Prepared by: Barrett A. Garrison (bagarris@hq.dfg.ca.gov) California Department of Fish and Game RECOMMENDED CITATION Garrison, B. A. 1998. Bank Swallow (Riparia riparia). In The Riparian Bird Conservation Plan: a strategy for reversing the decline of riparian-associated birds in California. California Partners in Flight. http://www.prbo.org/calpif/htmldocs/riparian_v-2.html SUBSPECIES STATUS: Riparia riparia riparia The Bank Swallow occurs as […]

“Come, summer visitant, attach To my reedroof thy nest of clay, And let my ear thy music catch, Low twitting underneath the thatch, At the gray dawn of day.” birdnature.com SURE harbingers of spring are the Swallows. They are very common birds, and frequent, as a rule, the cultivated lands in the neighborhood of water, […]

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Observations of birds laying eggs in nests of other species are of interest because this behavior, when timed appropriately and directed at nests where parents fail to recognize foreign eggs and offspring, may be the starting point for evolution of interspecific brood parasitism.
Read more about Interspecific egg-dumping by a violet-green Swallow in an active Western Bluebird nest. …

swallow-nest.com Ingredients : 225 g shelled shrimps 1 green crab (about 375 g) 19 g zhusheng (dictophora phalloidea) 38 g soaked bird’s nest pieces (with water absorted) 300 g asparagus any suitable amount of stock 1 egg white 1 tsp wine   Seasoning : 1/4 tsp salt 3/4 tsp caltrop starch dash of sesame oil […]

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BALIKPAPAN ternyata bukan hanya dikenal memiliki potensi sebagai kota transit, tetapi juga memiliki potensi bisnis rumah walet yang cukup besar. Namun sayangnya, hingga kini potensi agribisnis ini belum tergarap maksimal karena dipandang sebagai bisnis yang mengandalkan hoki. Menurut pengamat walet Ir Herman, 90 persen penghasil sarang burung dengan liur ini berjenis walet (collocalia fuciphaga) bukan seriti seperti di Pulau Jawa. “Berdasarkan pengamatan saya beberapa tahun terakhir, jenis walet lebih mendominasi yakni sekitar 90 persen. Tidak seperti di Pulau Jawa hanya 40 persen, sementara 60 persen lagi adalah seriti,” ungkapnya.
Read more about Rumah Walet Balikpapan Miliki Potensi …

environment.newscientist.com
00:01 28 March 2014
NewScientist.com news service
Catherine Brahic
Birds in Chernobyl choose to nest in sites with lower levels of background radioactivity, researchers discover, but how they can tell remains a mystery.

Anders Møller at Pierre and Marie Curie University in Paris, France, and Tim Mousseau at the University of South Carolina in Columbia, US, erected more than 200 nest boxes in the Red Forest, about 3 kilometres away from the nuclear reactor that exploded in 1986.
Read more about Chernobyl-based birds avoid radioactive nests …

jeb.biologists.org Kirsty J. Park1,*, Mikael Rosén2 and Anders Hedenström2 1 Department of Biological Sciences, University of Stirling, Stirling FK9 4LA, UK and 2 Department of Animal Ecology, Lund University, SE-223 62 Lund, Sweden *Author for correspondence (e-mail: k.j.park@stir.ac.uk) Accepted May 14, 2001 Two barn swallows (Hirundo rustica) flying in the Lund wind tunnel were filmed […]

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The bird genus Hirundo is a group of passerines in the family Hirundinidae (swallows and martins). These are the typical swallows, including the widespread Barn Swallow. Many of this group have blue backs, red on the face and sometimes the rump or nape, and whitish or rufous underparts.
All of the species are found in the Old World, although one, the Barn Swallow, is cosmopolitan, also occurring in the Americas.
Genetic evidence has recently shown that many of the species previously included in Hirundo are less closely related than their appearance might suggest; these species are now treated in the separate genera Cecropis (e.g. Red-rumped Swallow Cecropis daurica, previously Hirundo daurica) and Petrochelidon (e.g. Cliff Swallow Petrochelidon pyrrhonota, previously Hirundo pyrrhonota); they are as distinct from typical Hirundo as the House Martins in the genus Delichon.
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