In , my son Jeremy called me with the news that he had bought an old vineyard in the south of France. Once I had removed the vision from my mind of the family producing its own wine, I realized he had purchased three acres of land on which he intended to build a house. The next bit of the conversation led to the news that there was an additional field of an acre available and I should consider buying that too. From then on things moved fast. We made the journey out, and having looked at the land decided we would buy it. The purchase was helped by finding a pair of Rollers nesting by the roadside just downhill from the site and Red-rumped Swallows collecting mud in nearby puddles.
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British Broadcasting Corporation Home. Darker coloured pigeons are healthier, researchers in France have discovered. A study of urban pigeons in central Paris has shown that birds with higher levels of the dark pigment melanin have stronger immune systems.
All rights reserved. Live fast, age fast—at least if you're a male houbara bustard. That's because male bustards that perform longer courtship displays lose sperm quality faster than males that do not put on elaborate seduction shows, a new study suggests. The sheer energy required to keep up marathon performances eventually takes its toll on the sperm production of the flashy males, which actually start out with healthier, more robust sperm than their humdrum rivals.