The population of Barn Swallow has been declining over the years in each state. Barn Swallows are known by many ornithologists as distant travelers that cross thousands of miles during winter from the north region to south region. This research was conducted at Serian District, Town that is very famous for the perching sites of Barn Swallow. The main objective of this research is to estimate the population density of Barn Swallow in Serian town. The density of Barn Swallow in Serian Town is five individual in one kilometer square. The Barn Swallow was sighted perching at three area that were wired cable along the road, building in Serian Town and tree. To calculate the number of barns swallow, estimation method was used.. ...

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers conducted a water drawdown on Navigation Pool 8 of the Upper Mississippi River during the summers of 2001 and 2002 to increase aquatic vegetation production and thereby improve fish and wildlife habitat. Flooding of previously dried wetlands, however, may increase the rate of mercury methylation and make mercury more available to terrestrial vertebrates that feed in aquatic environments. Our objective was to determine if mercury, other elements, and organochlorine contaminants were more available to vertebrates following the 2001 drawdown. Tree swallow (Tachycineta bicolor) eggs and nestlings were collected at two sites on Pool 8 and a nearby Reference site in 2000 (pre-2001 drawdown), 2001 (pre-2001 drawdown) and 2002 (post-2001 drawdown) and tissues were analyzed for mercury, other elements, and organochlorine contaminants. Bioindicator measurements of genetic damage, oxidative stress, ethoxyresorufin-O-dealkylase activity, and the ratio of liver to nestling mass were

Females, and not males, have delayed plumage maturation. The hypothesis that plumage differences are the result of differences in competitive abilities among individualsis tested by comparing brown and blue Tree Swallow females in terms of foraging abilities, as determined by the growth of nestlings under their care without the help of the males, and in terms of body size and nutritional condition ...

Contaminant (primarily polychlorinated biphenyls, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, dioxins, and a variety of pesticides) occurrence in harbor and stream sediments in the industrialized portions the Great Lakes has been well documented. However, the link between the contaminants and health threats to individual organisms or entire populations is not well defined.. USGS Environmental Health Teams conducted research relevant to understand health threats to an indicator species (tree swallows-Tachycineta bicolor) in the Great Lakes Region of the United States. Tree swallows are an ideal test species because they nest throughout the region, feed locally on aerial stages of aquatic insects, and as a result have close ties to sediment contamination. This research was done in partnership with Great Lakes Restoration Initiative.. The Initiative began in 2010 with a renewed effort to assess and restore, where needed, contaminated harbors and rivers across the Great Lakes at 31 specific Areas of Concern ...

Territory size varies among birds tree swallows postulate solely several feet of space robins. Eastern Blue Bird & Tree Swallow. Build a bird house or nesting shelf for a tree bury surgery barn swallow up with one of these free plans. Tree Swallows natural nesting habitat was earlier institute around beaver ponds and wetland margins where standing short trees were excavated by. Plans for the ones you Barn Owl Barn Swallow Barred Owl. Competition among dental caries nesters for sites qualities of good snuggle boxes and birdhouses birdhouse designs. Rid bird house plans that are tardily to build with minimal tools. Ane built both of these astatine the.. ...

By Harry Fuller, Klamath Bird Observatory Board President 25 August, 2013 Our only strictly western swallow in America is moving south, as it does each year. An early arrival each winter (many show up here in southern Oregon in March with the Tree Swallows), the Violet-green is also an early departer. The Violet-green is closely related to the Tree Swallow. Both Tree and Violet-greens have brilliant white bellies at all ages, although the Violet-green has more white on its face compared to the Tree. Both are cavity nesters, preferring trees to bridges or chimneys. The Tree Swallow and Violet-green are aggressive about using next boxes, often driving out bluebirds or other cavity nesters. The Violet-green Swallow nests along the Pacific Coast from Alaska to central Mexico and as far east as the Front Range of the Rockies. The Violet-green does not use mud in its nest like Cliff and Barn Swallows. These birds were gathered on wires along the road into Emigrant Lake Recreation Area. They flew ...

p,In southern Ontario, Canada during 1988-1997, pesticide exposure and its effects on the immune and endocrine systems and the behaviour and growth of tree swallos (Tachycineta bicolor) and on reproductive success in tree swallos and eastern bluebirds (Sailia sailis) were studied. Birds were exposed in sprayed apple orchards and non-sprayed sites. There were significant effects of pesticides on all of these endpoints. Sprayed tree swallow nestlings had significantly increased blastogenic response to pokeweed mitogen and delayed thymic maturation. Also, some tree swallow immune parameters were correlated to the date chicks were sampled. As the number of mixed sprays applied increased, there was a significant and positive increase in the concentration of the thyroid hormone, tri-iodo-thyronine, in male chicks and some indications of an increasing occurrence of a disrupted sertoli cell population on the seminiferous tubular basement membrane in testes. There were no effects of pesticides on adult ...

A randomised, replicated and controlled experiment in 2000 at four sites in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, Canada (Shutler & Campbell 2007) found that the number of purple martin fleas Ceratophyllus idius was significantly lower in tree swallow Tachycineta bicolor nests with fresh yarrow Achillea millefolium foliage added every two days whilst clutches were being laid, compared to control nests with no added foliage (419 fleas/nest for 23 experiomental nests vs. 773 fleas/nest for 44 controls). There were no corresponding differences in the number of blowfly Protocalliphora spp. pupae (3.3 and 2.5 pupae/nest for experimental and control nests respectively), nestling mass (23.5 g in experimental nests vs. 23.8 g in controls), nestling leukocyte profiles, or proportion of young fledging (5.3 fledglings/nest for experimental nests vs. 5.1 fledglings/nest for controls). The authors speculate that adult tree swallows may increase provisioning rate to compensate for flea parasitism.. Study and other ...

Many host-parasite relationships exist, and while some have been studied extensively, for others, our understanding of the influences the parasite and host impose on each other is limited. Ectoparasites live in close proximity to their host, often living on the host or within the nest of their host, and so are influenced not only by the individual host they exploit, but by the habitat choices of their host as well. Bird blow flies in the genus Protocalliphora (Diptera: Calliphoridae) are ectoparasites of the altricial young of many species of birds; the nests of tree swallows Tachycineta bicolor in particular are frequently infested by a number of species of Protocalliphora. Through the use of baited traps, experimental manipulation of the nests and nest sites of hosts, and observing the behaviours of adult tree swallows, I studied: (1) host location and host selection strategies of blow flies by testing the importance of nest feathers to blow flies; (2) the influence of the density and ...

Anmarkrud, Jarl Andreas; Kleven, Oddmund; Bachmann, Lutz & Lifjeld, Jan Terje (2008). Microsatellite evolution: Mutations, sequence variation, and homoplasy in the hypervariable avian microsatellite locus HrU10. BMC Evolutionary Biology. ISSN 1471-2148. 8(138) . doi: 10.1186/1471-2148-8-138 Vis sammendrag BACKGROUND Microsatellites are frequently used genetic markers in a wide range of applications, primarily due to their high length polymorphism levels that can easily be genotyped by fragment length analysis. However, the mode of microsatellite evolution is yet not fully understood, and the role of interrupting motifs for the stability of microsatellites remains to be explored in more detail. Here we present a sequence analysis of mutation events and a description of the structure of repeated regions in the hypervariable, pentanucleotide microsatellite locus HrU10 in barn swallows (Hirundo rustica) and tree swallows (Tachycineta bicolor). RESULTS In a large-scale parentage analysis in barn ...

With their aerial displays and propensity to chatter, Tree Swallows are usually the most noticeable of the summer birds at Blue Jay Barrens. These birds were uncommon here 25 years ago. When I first installed bird boxes, they were all occupied by Bluebirds of Chickadees. Now, 80 percent of the box inhabitants are Tree Swallows. The shallow pool of water at the site of my new toad pool construction has been getting a lot of attention from the swallows ...

The Barn Swallow is a medium-sized songbird that is easily recognized by its steely-blue upperparts, cinnamon underparts, chestnut throat and forehead, and by its deeply forked tail. Sexes have similar plumage, but males have longer outer tail-streamers than females and tend to be darker chestnut on their underparts.

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In southern Illinois, the tree swallow (Tachycineta bicolor) still shows significant quantities of polychlorinated biphenols, a toxic chemical, in its eggs and chicks seven years after remediation efforts started at a capacitor-manufacturing plant. The findings prompted further sediment removal.. Thomas Custer, from the US Geological Surveys Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center in La Crosse, Wisconsin, presented his findings at the annual meeting of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry in Long Beach, California, last week. Custer and his group used swallows to monitor a 2010 project intended to remove contaminated sediments from Ohios Ottawa River, near Toledo. The birds indicate that this is no longer a hotspot.. Swallows forage over small distances, rarely more than 500 meters from their nests, indicating localized contamination. Researchers can also attract them to areas of interest by putting out nesting boxes on poles, because nesting sites are the birds most ...

Swallows were filmed while flying in the wind tunnel using two high-speed RedLake video cameras (Motionscope PCI 500, USA) at 125framess−1 and with the shutter open for 1/1875s. The cameras were synchronised to record simultaneous images of the bird from different angles. The camera output was directly transferred via frame grabbers to a PC (Pentium II 233 MHz) in the form of two animation (.AVI) files, one from each camera. Individual frames were extracted from these files as sequences of compressed (.JPG) monochrome picture files, measuring 480pixels×420pixels, where pixels were square (aspect ratio 1). Flight sequences, averaging 1.3s in duration, of posterior (image plane x,z) and ventral (image plane y,z) views of the swallows were obtained by positioning one camera behind the test section far back in the first diffuser without affecting the flow in the test section (see Pennycuick et al., 1997), and the other underneath the test section. The coordinate axes are defined as: x, direction ...

Barn Swallows nest almost exclusively on human-made structures such as barns, sheds, bridges, and culverts. They are the most widely-distributed of all swallows. However, the Canadian population has declined by 80% since 1970.. Bird Studies Canada initiated a Barn Swallow monitoring and stewardship project in Ontario in 2012. In spring 2013, we began building and testing different types of artificial nesting structures. Our goal was to develop an optimal design that might help mitigate impacts of habitat being lost across southern Ontario. In 2014 we collaborated with Bird Ecology and Conservation Ontario to test how social cues, such as the presence of other swallows, might affect Barn Swallow use of these new structures.. In addition to testing artificial nesting structures, Bird Studies Canada has also looked at Barn Swallows preferred nesting structure types. We quantified their use of various structures, and not surprisingly, barns came out on top. All of this information is being used to ...

One of our most familiar birds in rural areas and semi-open country, this swallow is often seen skimming low over fields with a flowing, graceful flight. It seems to have adopted humans as neighbors, typically placing its nest in barns or garages, or under bridges or wharves; indeed, it is now rare to find a Barn Swallow nest in a site that is not manmade. The species is also common across Europe and Asia, wintering to southern Africa and South America.

Heres an update on the bluebirds nesting in Rock Meadow. My parents and I went for a walk and checked the houses where I previously saw nesting bluebirds. I had seen three pairs. (My photos are here.) But that was before the tree swallows arrived. Now we could only find one of the pairs left. Its in a house at the far end of the meadow. The swallows are very aggressive and as we watched, it they swooped and dove at the bluebirds. I wonder if the bluebirds will stay to raise a family? Doesnt really seem likely. Ill keep an eye on them. Heres an excellent article on swallow-bluebird competition, that Jim pointed out to me. I was pleased to read that, though swallows are aggressive, bluebirds are larger and stronger and are able to defend themselves. Go bluebirds ...

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Gliding through a provincially significant class one wetland always produces a great list of wetland birds that one doesnt see or hear in smaller marshes. The Constance Creek route within the City of Ottawa does just that.. Upon exploring this journey, we discovered a very healthy population of wee marsh wrens, a species that is disappearing from large lake fringe wetlands due to lowering of water tables.. Also found and listed were many common yellow-throated warblers, sora rails and pied-billed grebes plus the usuals of red-wings, grackles, great blue herons, alder flycatchers, tree swallows and swamp sparrows.. To find this creek and its launch area, travel to Dunrobin, turn east towards the Ottawa River and travel about one km to the bridge. There is plenty of space to park your car and canoes can be put in the water on the north-west side of the bridge. The first thing to greet you is an osprey nest on a nearby hydro pole.. Probably this creek is best travelled in the spring for the reeds ...

The Rosvall Lab in the Biology Department is seeking paid, entry-level undergraduate field technicians for 2021 spring and/or summer. Our lab studies wild birds called tree swallows, which breed around Bloomington in bird houses, and undergraduate field technicians help monitor and maintain the bird houses during the breeding season. Experience is not required for entry-level positions in the lab. Interested people should also check out the attached ad… Read more ». ...

I have an EABL egg already.. Just in time for days of ice rain, cold and more rain.. We have not had good weather here in Southern Ontario, much colder than usual spring, and the Tree Swallows came back yesterday….just in time for a massive ice storm. I was shocked to open one of my few remaining boxes tonight to find there was a EABL egg! The box was just a few pieces of grass on Tuesday. Boy. No regard for the weather eh guys? (Guess this one is staying up…I took down the others on the property due to HOSP pressure and permission to trap and remove HOSP being revoked, stupid politics and such…was going to take down all of them because I was so frustrated by the incident, and by losing so many last year to the HOSP, even when I WAS trapping, but will see how things go with only the two remaining boxes. These two were the least affected by HOSP so maybe there is hope. Why punish MYSELF for other peoples issues? I enjoy the TRES a lot. Maybe the sparrow spooker will be enough for a while? ...

You can read more about him at the University of Western Ontario Department of Biology Directory.. Recent Publications: Gerson, A.R. and C.G. Guglielmo. 2013. Measurement of glomerular filtration rate during flight in a migratory bird using a single bolus injection of FITC-inulin. American Journal of Physiology - Renal Physiology doi:10.1152/ajprenal.00247.2013. Nebel, S., D.M. Buehler, A. MacMillan, and C.G. Guglielmo. 2013. Flight performance of western sandpipers (Calidris mauri) remains uncompromised when mounting an acute phase immune response. Journal of Experimental Biology (doi:10.1242/jeb.083204). Boyle, W.A., D.W. Winkler and C.G. Guglielmo. 2012. Rapid loss of fat but not lean mass prior to chick provisioning supports the flight efficiency hypothesis in Tree Swallows. Functional Ecology doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2435.2012.01997.x. McGuire, L.P., C.G. Guglielmo, S.A. Mackenzie and P.D. Taylor. 2012. Migration stopover in the North American long-distance migrant silver-haired bat, ...

Brawn, J. D. 1990. Interspecific competition and social behavior in Violet-green Swallows. Auk no. 107:606-608.. Brown, Charles R., A. M. Knott and E. J. Damrose. 2011. Violet-green Swallow (Tachycineta thalassina), version 2.0. In The Birds of North America (P. G. Rodewald, editor). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, New York, USA.. Cottam, C., C. S. Williams and C. A. Sooter. 1942b. Flight and running speed of birds. Wilson Bull. no. 54:121-131.. Dunne, Pete. 2006. Pete Dunnes essential field guide companion: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.. Lutmerding, J. A. and A. S. Love. Longevity records of North American birds. Version 2015.2. Patuxent Wildlife Research Center, Bird Banding Laboratory 2015.. Nebel, S., A. Mills, J. D. McCracken and P. D. Taylor. Declines of aerial insectivores in North America follow a geographic gradient (5:1). Avian Conservation and Ecology - Écologie et conservation desoiseaux 2010.. North American Bird Conservation Initiative. 2014. The State of the Birds 2014 Report. ...

The male barn swallow returns to the breeding grounds before the females and selects a nest site, which is then advertised to females with a circling flight and song. The breeding success of the male is related to the length of the tail streamers, with longer streamers being more attractive to the female.[4][44] Males with longer tail feathers are generally longer-lived and more disease resistant, females thus gaining an indirect fitness benefit from this form of selection, since longer tail feathers indicate a genetically stronger individual which will produce offspring with enhanced vitality.[45] Males in northern Europe have longer tails than those further south; whereas in Spain the males tail streamers are only 5% longer than the females, in Finland the difference is 20%. In Denmark, the average male tail length increased by 9% between 1984 and 2004, but it is possible that climatic changes may lead in the future to shorter tails if summers become hot and dry.[46]. Males with long ...

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ID A0A3M0KZ32_HIRRU Unreviewed; 2892 AA. AC A0A3M0KZ32; DT 13-FEB-2019, integrated into UniProtKB/TrEMBL. DT 13-FEB-2019, sequence version 1. DT 07-OCT-2020, entry version 8. DE SubName: Full=Uncharacterized protein {ECO:0000313,EMBL:RMC12397.1}; GN ORFNames=DUI87_09912 {ECO:0000313,EMBL:RMC12397.1}; OS Hirundo rustica rustica. OC Eukaryota; Metazoa; Chordata; Craniata; Vertebrata; Euteleostomi; OC Archelosauria; Archosauria; Dinosauria; Saurischia; Theropoda; OC Coelurosauria; Aves; Neognathae; Passeriformes; Sylvioidea; Hirundinidae; OC Hirundo. OX NCBI_TaxID=333673 {ECO:0000313,EMBL:RMC12397.1, ECO:0000313,Proteomes:UP000269221}; RN [1] {ECO:0000313,EMBL:RMC12397.1, ECO:0000313,Proteomes:UP000269221} RP NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE [LARGE SCALE GENOMIC DNA]. RC STRAIN=Chelidonia {ECO:0000313,EMBL:RMC12397.1}; RC TISSUE=Blood {ECO:0000313,EMBL:RMC12397.1}; RA Formenti G., Chiara M., Poveda L., Francoijs K.-J., Bonisoli-Alquati A., RA Canova L., Gianfranceschi L., Horner D.S., Saino N.; RT A high ...

Not only did the team find that the roadkill birds had longer wings, they found that over time, the overall wingspan of the cliff swallow population in Nebraska has been declining. While its possible that other factors are influencing this change, the research pair think the selective pressure to avoid cars is the real driver.. Evolution is an ongoing process, and all this - roads, SUVs, and all - is part of nature or the wild, explains Charles Brown. They exert selection pressures in a way we dont usually think about.. This isnt the first study to look at the effects of vehicular mortality on animal populations. But, usually, the results are quite gloomy; for example, a study in 2002 found that roads are likely a large cause of decline in turtle populations. Similar results were echoed in a study on rattlesnakes, which found that road mortality increased the risk of extinction in the next half century from ~7% to 99%. And in other birds, like the threatened Florida Scrub-Jay, roads ...

The more primitive species nest in existing cavities, for example in an old woodpecker nest, while other species excavate burrows in soft substrate such as sand banks.[9] Swallows in the genera Hirundo, Ptyonoproggne, Cecropis, Petrochelidon and Delichon build mud nests close to overhead shelter in locations that are protected from both the weather and predators. The mud-nesters are most common in the Old World, particularly Africa, whereas cavity-nesters are the rule in the New World. Mud nesting species in particular are limited in areas of high humidity, which causes the mud nests to crumble. Many cave, bank and cliff dwelling species of swallow nest in large colonies. Mud nests are constructed by both males and females, and amongst the tunnel diggers the excavation duties are shared as well. In historical times, the introduction of man-made stone structures such as barns and bridges, together with forest clearance, has led to an abundance of colony sites around the globe, significantly ...

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Bank Swallows, known as Sand Martins in the Old World, are found on all continents except Australia and Antarctica. The species can be recognized by its white underparts and a dark band across the breast. In North America, the distribution of Bank Swallows increased after Europeans settlement due to changes in land use, which created better conditions for breeding and foraging. Bank Swallows excavate burrows for nesting along river banks, lakeshores or coastlines, and opportunistically in aggregate extraction pits. Bank Swallows have successfully adopted human-made banks made of concrete and tubes that are built to replicate natural nesting habitat. During migration, hundreds or thousands of individuals can be observed at dawn joining other bird species landing in wetlands to rest. The species impressive flying skills allows it to capture insects on the wing; its diet mostly includes ants, bees, wasps (hymenoptera) and flies (diptera).. In North America, the Bank Swallow population has lost an ...

IOC Classification: Domain: Eukaryota • Regnum: Animalia • Phylum: Chordata • Subphylum: Vertebrata • Infraphylum: Gnathostomata • Superclassis: Tetrapoda • Classis: Aves • Superordo: Neognathae • Ordo: Passeriformes • Subordo: Passeri • Infraordo: Passerida • Superfamilia: Sylvioidea • Familia: Hirundinidae • Genus: Petrochelidon • Species: Petrochelidon rufigula ...

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Welcome swallows are small fast-flying birds found in open country particularly around lakes, coasts, riverbeds and ponds. Their flight is circular and darting in style, and they may be seen singly, in pairs or in flocks. Flocks often perch en masse, lined up on fences or power lines. They were named welcome swallows because they appeared in southern Australia as a herald of spring. Due to their elegant shape and flight, and their preference for nesting around buildings, swallows are noticed and appreciated more than most other small birds.. Identification. Welcome swallows are small, elegant birds with blunt heads, a deeply-forked tail and long pointed wings. Adults have rufous on the forehead, neck and breast and to a lesser degree (and paler) on the flanks. The bill is short, broad and black, and they have a black eye stripe. The back and upperwings are blue-black. The tail is dark with white spots towards the ends of the feathers that form a row of dots when the tail is spread in flight. ...

In this thesis I studied environmentally caused changes in the redox regulation of different wild vertebrate animals to gain knowledge on the temporal, spatial and pollution-derived-effects on the AOX systems. As study species I used barn swallow, ringed seal and the Baltic salmon. For the barn swallow the main interest was the seasonal fluctuation in the redox regulation and its connection to migration and breeding. The more contaminated ringed seals of the Baltic Sea were compared to seals from cleaner Svalbard to investigate whether they suffered from contaminant induced oxidative stress. The regional and temporal variation in redox regulation and regional variation in mRNA and protein expressions of Baltic salmon were studied to gain knowledge if the salmon from different areas are equally stressed. As a comparative aspect the redox responses of these different species were investigated to see which parts of the AOX system are substantial in which species ...

Bank Swallows (Riparia riparia) congregate in large nocturnal roosts during the non-breeding season. Scant evidence suggests that Bank Swallows may also congregate regularly in nocturnal roosts during the breeding period. To help clarify the issue, we used automated radio-telemetry to document the roosting behavior of 11 males and 11 females that were tending nests with young at two nesting colonies. Nineteen of the 22 birds (86%) spent at least one night roosting away from the colony, and 13 of the 22 birds (59%) spent at least one night roosting likely within a large marsh located ~30 km away from the colonies. Females tended to roost overnight at the colony more than males. The proportion of nights birds spent roosting away from the colony was highly variable between individuals. Minimum flight speeds to an evening roost site (~30 km distant) were significantly greater than return flights back to the colony in the morning. Our study confirms that breeding Bank Swallows do in fact regularly ...

The smallest of our swallows, the Bank Swallow is usually seen in flocks, flying low over ponds and rivers with quick, fluttery wingbeats. It nests in dense colonies, in holes in dirt or sand banks. Some of these colonies are quite large, and a tall cut bank may be pockmarked with several hundred holes. Despite their small size, tiny bills, and small feet, these swallows generally dig their own nesting burrows, sometimes up to five feet long.

These swallow tend to fly higher than other swallows. You may not be able to see the violet and green color, but the distinctive white bow-tie on its rear is a good clue that youve found one of these energetic birds. Uncover more about the violet-green swallow.... ...

Wouldnt it be nice if your breasts were equipped with little gauges that indicated how much milk was removed when your baby ate? Fortunately there are other ways to measure milk intake when a baby is breastfeeding. Your baby should eat at least 8 times every 24 hours. If your baby is eating and not just sucking, you will be able to observe swallows. Swallows will be infrequent immediately after birth, but will gradually increase to about 1 swallow per second around day 4 or 5. Continue reading →. ...

Thank you to everyone who came and supported the National Theatre of Parramattas first production.. Swallow plunges its audience into a modern life, where neighbours overhear one anothers lives but never exchange a word. Stef Smiths writing is filled with delicate observations, inventiveness, empathy and wry humour.. The three women inhabit a hostile world. Anna hasnt left her flat in years; Sam emerges as a new self then comes to face with the most savage of prejudices and Rebeccas world and dreams have fallen apart. Throughout, the play remains open to the possibilities of connection between individuals, however damaged. Swallow fearlessly goes to those dark places where individuals are precariously balanced at tipping point. Painful yet playful, poignant but uplifting Who said smashing things up was a bad thing?. Hard hitting yet humorous. Swallow explores questions of identity, heartbreak and hope with vivid, poetic intensity.. Written by Olivier Award-winning playwright Stef Smith ...

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tags: Gray Wren-warbler, Zambia Wren-warbler, Western Wren-warbler, Calamonastes simplex, Lesser Striped Swallow, Striped Swallow, Hirundo abyssinica, birds, mystery bird, bird ID quiz [Mystery bird]Gray Wren-warbler (perched), also known as a Zambia Wren-warbler or Western Wren-warbler, Calamonastes simplex, and a Lesser Striped Swallow (flying), also known as a Striped Swallow, Hirundo abyssinica, photographed near the Pangani…. ...

García, G. O., Becker, P. H., Favero, M. (2013), Intraspecific kleptoparasitism improves chick growth and reproductive output in Common Terns Sterna hirundo. Ibis, 155: 338-347. doi: 10.1111/ibi.12019 ...

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Determining the effect of an invasive species on enzootic pathogen dynamics is critical for understanding both human epidemics and wildlife epizootics. Theoretical models suggest that when a naive species enters an established host-parasite system, the new host may either reduce (dilute) or increase (spillback) pathogen transmission to native hosts. There are few empirical data to evaluate these possibilities, especially for animal pathogens. Buggy Creek virus (BCRV) is an arthropod-borne alphavirus that is enzootically transmitted by the swallow bug (Oeciacus vicarius) to colonially nesting cliff swallows (Petrochelidon pyrrhonota). In western Nebraska, introduced house sparrows (Passer domesticus) invaded cliff swallow colonies approximately 40 years ago and were exposed to BCRV. We evaluated how the addition of house sparrows to this host-parasite system affected the prevalence and amplification of a bird-associated BCRV lineage. The infection prevalence in house sparrows was eight times that of

The swallow bug (Hemiptera: Cimicidae) primarily feeds on the blood of nestling and adult cliff swallows (Petrochelidon pyrrhonota), which are colonial nesters found throughout North America. The bugs are long-lived and remain on the swallows mud nests throughout the year, even when the birds have migrated south. Swallow bug infestation can reach up to 2,500 individuals in a single nest and are known to vector Buggy Creek virus (Togaviridae, Alphavirus), which is an arbovirus hosted by birds. This ectoparasite is related to the common bedbug (Cimex lectularius), which is typically found in human environments. Swallow bugs are known to also bite humans when handled ...

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Saturday the 29th was the last day of my New York State Big Year seeing as Sunday saw me on a plane bound for sunny southern California. Because we were flying out of LaGuardia Airport Daisy and I were in Queens, the perfect base of operations for finding the vagrant and reliable Townsends Solitaire that has been hanging around for over a week on the south shore of Long Island ten miles west of Jones Beach, and the also-out-of-place juvenile Black-headed Gull that has decided it would rather be on the north shore of Long Island than its proper place in Europe somewhere. The original plan was for Daisy and I both to go out searching for the birds but when I set the alarm for 6:30 AM she opted out of the birding mission.. The morning was foggy and wet but I managed to spot a large flock of Tree Swallows and a perched Merlin along Ocean Parkway before I arrived at the Townsends Solitaire spot at the dead end of Oak Beach Rd, which essentially exists so rich people can have houses near the beach. ...

Abstract An alphavirus isolated from nestling Cliff Swallows (Petrochelidon pyrrhonota) and House Sparrows (Passer domesticus) and from cimicid bugs (Oeciacus vicarius) in eastern Colorado, for which we propose the name Fort Morgan (FM) virus, is sensitive to the action of sodium deoxycholate, unstable at pH 2.0-4.0, and demonstrates no characteristics of temperature-sensitive mutants. Unpassaged field strains are nonpathogenic, or of low pathogenicity, for suckling mice; however, plaque-purified FM virus is pathogenic for a variety of laboratory hosts. By hemagglutination-inhibition (HI), complement-fixation, and neutralization tests, cross-reactions were observed between FM virus and members of the western equine encephalitis (WEE) virus antigenic complex. Short-incubation HI tests indicated that the new isolate shared closer antigenic relationships with WEE complex virus strains from the eastern United States (Highlands J virus) than with other WEE complex viruses. On the basis of these serological

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The swallows roosting site, the Mount Moreland Reedbed, 20km north of Durban, is about the size of four football pitches. In 2007 it will be classified as an Important Bird Area by BirdLife International because of its importance to swallows. The reedbed is thought to host more than eight per cent of the millions of swallows breeding in Europe, from Denmark to Britain to Belarus. It is also used by lesser kestrels, corncrakes and crowned eagles, all of which are now uncommon.. Mount Moreland lies on the flight path of aircraft that will arrive and depart from the proposed La Mercy airport. BirdLife South Africa fears the reedbed will be cleared because the birds could threaten aircraft safety. Swallow populations have already fallen in Britain probably because of drought and pesticide use on their migration route and the conversion of farm buildings and other, favoured, UK nesting sites.. An environmental impact assessment is under way at La Mercy but BirdLife South Africa suspects an adverse ...

Barium swallow health risks - What negative health consequences are associated with a barium swallow. Is it dangerous? Very safe. Only a small amount of radiation is used during the exam. The barium is a white liquid that will pass unchanged through the intestinal tract. Only real problems occur in people who cant swallow much of anything without choking or have a hole in the side (perforation) of their esophagus. These are uncommon problems that your doctor would know about.

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Helpful, trusted answers from doctors: Dr. Essers on barium swallow exam: swallow evaluates the swallowing mechanism, pharynx, hypopharynx, and upper esophagus. A standard barium swallow evaluates the whole esophagus but does not provide a detailed evaluation of swallowing, so they are different exams. If you need both, the exams could potentially be combined into one visit. Just because you are having a modified doesnt mean you need the standard, though.

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Active red-cockaded woodpecker (Picoides borealis) colonies in the Piedmont of Georgia are mature pine stands (mean age = 87 ± 1 yr old) with relatively sparse midstories (mean basal area = 31 ± 3 ft2/ac). Active and abandoned colony sites have similar overstory characteristics, but midstories are significantly denser in abandoned colony sites (mean basal area = 56 ± 3 ft2/ac ). Previous studies have focused on the effect of hardwoods in the midstory, but we found that increases in both pine and hardwood midstory density are associated with colony abandonment. A logistic regression model based on field data suggests that the probability of a colony becoming abandoned increases considerably when midstory basal area is > 30 ft2/ac. To maintain red-cockaded woodpecker populations, managers should keep midstory basal area in colonies below 25 ft2/ac. Treatments should be applied to entire stands and not just around individual cavity trees.. ...

The sagas suggest a short period of activity and a very brief and failed colonization attempt, says Douglas Bolender, an archaeologist specializing in Norse settlements. LAnse aux Meadows fits well with that story but is only one site. Point Rosee could reinforce that story or completely change it if the dating is different from LAnse aux Meadows. We could end up with a much longer period of Norse activity in the New World ...

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There has been very little theoretical analysis of the economics of ecolabelling performed to date. Theoretical analyses include Mattoo and Singh (1994), Sedjo and Swallow (1998), Swallow and Sedjo (1999), Nimon and Beghin (1999a), and Gudmundsson and Wessells (2000). Empirical analyses include Nimon and Beghin (1999b), Wessells, Johnston and Donath (1999a, 1999b), and Johnston, Wessells, Donath and Asche (2001).These papers have investigated the effects of ecolabelling on the environment to determine if the ecolabels will achieve their stated objectives of having a positive environmental impact. Swallow and Sedjo (1998), and Sedjo and Swallow (1999) look at forest ecolabelling, while Gudmundsson and Wessells (2000), Wessells, Johnston and Donath (1999a, 1999b) and Johnston, Wessells, Donath and Asche (2001) focus on fisheries. Nimon and Beghin (1999a, 1999b) address ecolabelling of textiles.. Theoretical Analyses. Mattoo and Singh (1994) discuss ecolabelling in general, unattached to any ...

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A barium swallow can highlight abnormalities in the upper gastrointestinal tract. Learn what to expect before, during and after this procedure.

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Barium swallow is a dedicated test of the pharynx, oesophagus, and proximal stomach, and may be performed as a single or double contrast study. The study is often modified to suit the history and symptoms of the individual patient, but it is of...

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A barium swallow is an imaging test that uses X-rays to look at your upper gastrointestinal (GI) tract. Your upper GI tract includes the back of your mouth and throat (pharynx) and your esophagus.

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I have some issues with my throat which occasionally cause me to accidentally swallow small amounts of mouthwash when gargling. I can most assuredly advise that it causes me no known after effects. Looking at this issue logically, one should keep in mind that in our litigious society a company would be suicidal to encourage putting something in the mouth that would cause serious injury if swallowed involuntarily in small amounts. That said, the warning is there for a reason and I therefore do not serve it as an aperitif ...