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Malta Today, Malta – Apr 22, 2014
Silvio Camilleri (see facing page) has evidently never watched The Muppet Show. Otherwise, as this classic illustration amply shows, he would have known what thousands of five-year-olds the world over already know.
Eagles have eyebrows.
However, I’m not at all sure whether Attorney Generals have eyes. Yes, yes, I know justice is supposed to be blind, and all that. But the reason I question Camilleri’s faculty of vision has nothing to do with aquiline superciliousness. It is his objection to the “hypothetical” cases I alluded to in my article last week.
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Prices soar in bid to harvest birds’ nests  ecologyasia.com/news/bangkokpost Concession revenues could hit B1.5bn Amnart Thongdee Prices for concessions to harvest swallows’ nests in Chumphon soared on the second day of bidding with a high bid of 228 million baht at the provincial administration centre. Bids for five concessions to collect the culinary delicacies were […]

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by Clacky McSnackins
A barn swallow is one of the first birds that most bird watchers are able to identify. With it’s obvious long forked tail, and distinctive markings, plus the large number of birds located throughout the world, it is pretty difficult not to identify one, especially if you live in North American or Europe, where they are generally found in the greatest numbers.
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6-8 apples, sliced
1/4 c. sugar
1 tsp. nutmeg
1 c. Bisquick
1 egg
2 tbsp. sugar
1/2 to 3/4 c. milk
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.biologists.org J Hegde and EC Stephenson Department of Biology, University of Rochester, NY 14627. The Drosophila maternal effect gene swallow has a role in localizing bicoid mRNA at the anterior margin of the oocyte during oogenesis, and a poorly characterized role in nuclear divisions in early embryogenesis. We have examined the distribution of swallow protein […]

Hudson Reporter, NJ – Apr 15, 2014 Hudson County has experienced a housing boom in recent years. Now the area’s winged residents, whose habitats were sometimes disrupted by the construction, are seeing their own homes built. Along the Mill Creek Marsh in Secaucus and throughout the Meadowlands region, the staff from the New Jersey Meadowlands Commission (NJMC) […]

borneodelights.com/library Edible bird’s nest can be categorised into two main types according to the location they are harvested from: cave nest and house nest. Cave nest Cave nest are mainly harvested from natural caves in eastern Sarawak and Sabah (two Malaysian states on the island of Borneo). These caves are scattered in the state’s various […]

dephut.go.id/informasi Pendahuluan Ciri khas dari burung walet adalah sayap panjang dan runcing, menunjuk ke belakang saat terbang, ekor pendek persegi atau panjang menajam, kaki sangat kecil. Burung walet jarang tertengker di pohon, biasanya beristirahat dengan cara bergantungan pada dinding karang dengan kukunya yang tajam. Beberapa jenis walet membuat sarang dengan air liurnya. Sarang jenis inilah […]

Nantucket Independent, MA – 22 hours ago
by Kenneth Turner Blackshaw
This week’s bird, like last week’s, has greatly benefited from its association with humans but, unlike the Rock Pigeon, has done so without having its reputation soiled. Truly, almost everyone loves swallows. This is the national bird of Estonia, representing clear blue sky and happiness!
Read more about BIRDS OF NANTUCKET ,THE SWALLOW AND THE QUAGGA …

4to40.com     Updated on : 01/07/2014  A swallow builds its nest inside farm buildings and on ledges in old chimneys. The nest is made of mud, straw and saliva, with feathers and wool to line the inside. It takes a pair of swallows up to several weeks to make the saucer-shaped nest in the rafters […]