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Tuesday, October 29, 2002

Bid to save blue swallow
Durban - The University of Natal and Ezemvelo KZN Wildlife have begun a bid to save South Africa's most endangered bird - the blue swallow.

A group from the university's School of Botany, Zoology and Geography and Ezemvelo KZN Wildlife have begun an exercise to find out how to slow the bird's decline. [...]

During the breeding season from September to March, selected swallows in the Impendle area of the Natal Midlands will be fitted with tiny telemetry transmitters - a tracking device so small it can be fitted to a bird's feather.

Researchers will be able to track the movements of the birds to determine how they use their habitat and environment. [...]
No word yet on the ability of the birds to grasp the husks of a coconut, nor upon their maximum airspeed.


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