The status and conservation of the Edible-nest Swiftlet (Collocalia fuciphaga) in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands


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R. Sankaran
Sálim Ali Centre for Ornithology and Natural History, Anaikatty PO, Coimbatore 641 108, India
Received 19 January 1999; revised 18 June 1999; accepted 22 June 2000. Available online 12 December 2000.
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Digit ratios, secondary sexual characters and condition in barn swallows Hirundo rustica


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Amélie N. Dreissa, Carlos Navarrob, Florentino de Lopec and Anders P. Møllerd
a Laboratoire Fonctionnement et Evolution des Systèmes Ecologiques, Université Pierre et Marie Curie-Paris 6, Paris, France b Departamento Ecología Funcional y Evolutiva, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Almería, Spain c Departamento de Biología Animal, Universidad de Extremadura, Badajoz, Spain d Laboratoire de Parasitologie Evolutive, Université Pierre et Marie Curie-Paris 6, Paris, France
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How we benefit by conserving the Blue Swallow e-zine:

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The Blue Swallow is an ambassador for a vital South African ecosystem namely grasslands. The South African grasslands form the major portion of our water catchment areas. More than 60% of the Grassland Biome has already been modified – forestry and agriculture playing largest roles. In South Africa only 2,23% of the Grassland Biome is formally conserved. The Grassland Biome is the least conserved, most transformed and therefore most highly threatened of South Africa’s 7 biomes.
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No Tree Swallows, all Bluebirds

braw.org Gary Gaard, BRAW Board of Directors I’ve had a bluebird trail at Deer Valley Golf Course for several years. I monitor ten flyGuard houses on the course. Cavity nesters at this golf course have been victim of the black fly.* When I first placed bluebird houses on this golf course, 50% of nests were […]

Review of Scientific Research on Edible Bird's Nest


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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.
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Extremely rare bird has lit in southeastern Arkansas

Swallow-tail kites found nesting in the White River National Wildlife Refuge thenewsstar.com Arkansas Game and Fish Commission sports@thenewsstar.com A multi-year research project offers hope that an extremely rare bird may find a new home territory in Arkansas. And this is not the heralded ivory-billed woodpecker. It’s the swallow-tail kite. That’s a raptor, a bird of […]

Phylogeny of early tertiary swifts and hummingbirds (Aves: Apodiformes)


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Auk, The,  Jan 2003  by Mayr, Gerald

The Auk 120(1):145-151, 2003

ABSTRACT.-The phylogenetic relationships between early Tertiary and extant apodiform birds are only poorly understood, and this study is the first cladistic approach to this problem in which the Trochilidae are included.
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Phylogeny of early tertiary swifts and hummingbirds (Aves: Apodiformes)


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Auk, The,  Jan 2003  by Mayr, Gerald

The Auk 120(1):145-151, 2003

ABSTRACT.-The phylogenetic relationships between early Tertiary and extant apodiform birds are only poorly understood, and this study is the first cladistic approach to this problem in which the Trochilidae are included.
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