Hello Martin ! This corroborates what I observed here : they prefer by far a place that has been used before. Another of your very interesting observations is...
Hannu, You are right. I blocked the entrance of my Swift-boxes to prevent a fight and to prevent losses both for the Starlings (dead pulli in 2002) and the...
Hello! I'm living in East Finland, Northern Savo area (Pohjois-Savo in Finnish). My home town is so called country town and here breeding now a few pairs of ...
Yesterday evening I saw the largest population of Apus apus which I ever saw before! It was in a city named "Karlsruhe" in southwest Germany -- in the district...
Hello, If you have some days off now during the summer months, and you don't want to find a full mailbox when you come back home, you're not obliged to ...
Hello Martin and Louis-Philippe I have discussed your recent postings with Prof Chris Perrins. He has no data about UV light but will enquire if we still have...
hi George How many of your tower boxes, or others, are used by Starlings or other hole nesters? Mark N Ireland [Non-text portions of this message have been...
Dear Colleagues, I was wondering if there is any more advice available on simple means of making Swift nest boxes inaccessible to Starlings, but still...
"a simple means of making Swift nest boxes inaccessible to Starlings" Why are the entrance holes in Schwegler boxes too big? They mustn't have done any...
This comes from the birding peru yahoo-group: Is this indeed a purle martin? greetings, Rob Message: 1 Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2004 18:00:09 +0200 (CEST) From:...
Dear All, Lomadze, N.H., Bzezyan, V.A., Tamantsyan, M.V. 2003. [Once again about the Sand Martin in the central part of Western Caucasus]. // Strepet. ...
Forwarded message. Louis-Philippe Arnhem B-3001 Heverlee (Leuven 33 km E of Brussels) Belgium http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Swallows-Martins-Swifts-Worldwide/ ...
Hi all ! I have ringed 4 years breeding Barn Swallows here in Finland. I have noticed that females are more dauntless (/intrepid) than males in breeding...
Hello Martin, The Starlings in my Schwegler boxes (those "big grey oval-shaped housemartin like boxes") can't go in. They tried several times, but until now...
Dear All about moult strategy in Pallid swift (Apus pallidus) and in Swift (Apus apus), I saw more adults Apus pallidus in earl june moulting their inner ...
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BlankDear Friends, My local Swuift colony now seems to be about 14 birds. I counted 13 earlier in the week, and 14 yesterday, flying very energetically low...
Yesterday morning I could make made a very interesting observation: My two camera-swifts were sitting head to head next to each other, one preening the other...
They tried several times, but until now they could not / did not. My Starlings tried to enter the box for days until they could get in and out with no problem....
Dear All, Savirskiy, R.M., Goryaev, Yu.I. 2003. Vstrecha derevenskoi lastochki v Eniseiskom zalive [Record of the Barn Swallow in the Enisei Gulf]. // ...
Guten Tag Martin Apart from Crataerina, the swifts have most of the usual bird parasites; these include Feather Lice (Mallophaga sp), fleas and various...
Hello George, what I saw had nothing to do with a copula at all. I did upload a picture from todays morning -- here you see the swifts sitting just next to...
Forwarded mail from Erich Kaiser's observation colony. Louis-Philippe ... From: Erich Kaiser To: Sent: Tuesday, July 06, 2004 12:39 AM Subject: incredible Dear...
Hello Serge ! We have at least one Délichon nesting place under the bridge here in East Finland, where also breeding Barn Swallows. The place name is Iisalmi,...
Hi All ! Jevgeni's info from the article was very interesting ! The place, where they have met 2 Barn Swallows (72' 43" northern latitude, 80' 01'' east...
Hi again Serge and others! I send the mail to our birding list that I will collect these observations all over the Finland in swallows and martins, which...
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