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sas.org/tcs/weeklyIssues To birders, the variety of sizes, shapes, colors, songs, habitats and behaviors of our feathered friends are fascinating and account for much pleasure. However, if you go a little farther and search carefully, you will find another much-varied dimension of the bird world – their nests. Birds’ nests are constructed from a variety of […]

MyNews.in, India – Feb 5, 2014
Wildlife Conservation Society scientists say the site is only one of two known roosts in Cross River State, a coastal region in southeastern Nigeria. The site is approximately two kilometres outside of Cross River National Park. Preliminary surveys by WCS indicate that the site may attract millions of swallows and be of international significance.
  Read more about Settlement of millions of migratory birds threatened …

Nantucket Independent,  USA – 19 hours ago
AN LGJ?
by Kenneth Turner Blackshaw
Birders are continually flummoxed by “LBJ’s” – Little Brown Jobs. These include a lot of the sparrows and the ubiquitous Yellowrumped Warbler, whose winter plumage is so nondescrip
But this week’s bird doesn’t hide in the grass or bushes around our island. No, it inhabits our winter beaches. Finding one is a real prize during Nantucket’s cold seasons.
Read more about BIRDS OF NANTUCKET …

The Tribune, TX – 5 hours ago
Bonnie McKeena
If you are a fan of the beautiful purple martin, now is the time to get your bird house ready.
Read more about Spring migration is in full swing …

TSHA Online tsha.utexas.edu Swallows, of the family Hirundinidae, are among the most conspicuous, well known, and beneficial of birds; they feed in flight on numerous insects detrimental to man. Seven of the eight species occurring in Texas are colonial to some extent, and all are migratory. Most have developed close associations with man and his […]

sfgate.com Sarah Rooney, Chronicle Foreign Service Muk Island, Thailand — High in the caves of Thailand’s idyllic southern islands lies an unlikely treasure that people are willing to kill for — the nest of a sparrowlike bird called the swiftlet. About a half-dozen companies, which have been granted concessions by local governments to gather swiftlet […]

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From The Burlington (Vt.) Free Press, June 20, 1999

By Nancy Bazilchuk

HINESBURG — Four young ravens, glossy black and big as chickens, listened curiously as University of Vermont zoologist Bernd Heinrich called them. Old enough to fly but not old enough to fend for themselves, the birds looked warily at Heinrich through the open door of their aviary. He waved a bite-sized chunk of veal at them.

“OK, guys, come out. You guys hungry?” he asked, sounding like a parent coaxing anxious 2-year-olds.
Read more about Uncovering the raven's secrets: Bird intrigues zoologist, inspires new book …

By Geoff Earle UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL washtimes.com EAST KALIMANTAN, Indonesia (UPI) — Utuh has never tried bird’s nest soup, but for 45 days at a stretch, the indigenous Dayak man with a wide face and bare feet stays in an open house made of logs in a jungle clearing overlooking a large cave so that […]

tripod.com/health For centuries in China these nests have been considered nourishing and tasty as well as a booster of health for the sick and aging; they are even believed to be an aphrodisiac ( arousing sexual desire ) Birds’ nest has been used for a long time in traditional Chinese medicine for many centuries. It […]

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Frederick H. Sheldona, , , Linda A. Whittinghamb, Robert G. Moylec, Beth Slikasd and David W. Winklere
aMuseum of Natural Science, 119 Foster Hall, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803, USA
bDepartment of Biological Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53201, USA
Read more about Phylogeny of swallows (Aves: Hirundinidae) estimated from nuclear and mitochondrial DNA sequences …