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	Sand Martin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Sand Martin appears towards the end March just in advance of the swallow as the first of its family over the larger sheets of water in of early flies.
		The Sand Martin is brown above white with a narrow brown band on the the bill is fl the legs brown.
		The Sand Martin is sociable in its habits; from a dozen to many hundred will nest close together according to available The nests are at the end of of from a few inches to three four feet in length bored in sand gravel.
	www.freeglossary.com /Sand_martin (609 words)

	Search Results for sand - Encyclopædia Britannica
		Sand lances are slim, elongated, usually silver fishes especially abundant in northern seas.
		Sand dunes are comparable to other forms that appear when a fluid moves over a loose bed, such...
		Sand sharks are found in shallow water, usually at or...
	www.britannica.com /search?query=sand&submit=Find&source=MWTEXT (546 words)

	London Biodiversity Partnership
		The sand martin (Riparia riperia), a swallow-like bird with a brown back and white underparts, is a fairly common breeding bird throughout mainland Britain and Ireland.
		Sand martins are aerial invertebrate feeders, and are often closely associated with areas productive for insects, near to open water.
		Increasingly, however, sand martins have been found to make use of the sandbanks of both working and redundant mineral extraction pits.
	www.lbp.org.uk /03action_pages/ac17_sandmartin.html (270 words)

	PoM: Miranda - Session 18
		Sand explains that he usually does, which is why he's so mad.
		Sand tells them that there will be a family dinner before the party that they'll be expected to attend.
		Martin's more obvious about it, but she thinks Delwin is better.
	www-personal.umich.edu /~fazzari/Amber/PoM/Logs/Session_18.html (2068 words)

	Sand martins and the law - The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Sand martins and their nests are fully protected by the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981.
		It is an offence to intentionally take, damage or destroy the eggs or nest of a sand martin while it is in use or being built.
		Quarry owners and their workers are likely to be helpful if warned about nesting sand martins, and can often work around the colony or avoid the immediate area until nesting has finished.
	www.rspb.org.uk /birds/sandmartin/sand_martins_and_the_law.asp (188 words)

	Bank Swallow or Sand Martin
		The sociability and gentleness of these birds, the lightness and vigour with which they perform their various evolutions, the low and unobtrusive twittering of their voice, in short, all their actions and economy, are delightful to contemplate.
		Although small, the Sand Swallow is a rather hardy bird; for I observed that the transient cold weather that at times occurs in the Floridas at night, seldom forces them to remove farther south.
		On the sea-coast, where soft banks are frequent, you might suppose that, as the burrows are only a few inches apart, the sand might fall in so as to obstruct the holes and suffocate their inmates; but I have not met with an instance of such a calamitous occurrence.
	www.audubon.org /bird/BoA/F6_G1f.html (2225 words)

	Welcome to The Cotswold Water Park! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The sand martin (Riparia riparia) is a common but localised summer visitor that spends the winter in Africa.
		Most companies provide a suitable face each year so that the sand martins nest in a quarry face that is non operational that particular year, thereby managing their quarry sensitively for Sand Martins.
		A sand martin ringed in CWP in 2001 was retrapped in a reedbed roost a few months later near Madrid, Spain.
	www.waterpark.org /sandmartin.htm (357 words)

	Facts about topic: (Sand Martin) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		It winters in eastern and southern Africa (The second largest continent; located south of Europe and bordered to the west by the South Atlantic and to the east by the Indian Ocean), southern Asia and South America (A continent in the western hemisphere connected to North America by the Isthmus of Panama).
		The Sand Martin appears towards the end of March, just in advance of the swallow (Small long-winged songbird noted for swift graceful flight and the regularity of its migrations), as the first of its family, flitting over the larger sheets of water in search of early flies.
		Its brown back, small size and quicker, jerkier flight separate it at once from swallows and House Martin (Common small European martin that builds nests under the eaves of houses) s.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/s/sa/sand_martin.htm (478 words)

	Management and creation of sand martin nest sites - The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Sand martins usually nest in natural sheer cliff faces on river bends or in man-made sites such as gravel or sand pits.
		Banks have been made for sand martins using a weak or dry concrete mix around clay or polythene pipes.
		It is best to fill the pipes with sand for the birds to excavate, with the entrance hole half blocked with cement.
	www.rspb.org /countryside/whatyoucando/sandmartinnestsites/index.asp (704 words)

	Birds
		Sand Martins are so-called because they nest in the sand, and are sandy coloured.
		Sand Martins, like House Martins and Swallows, are summer visitors to Britain.
		The Sand Martin is the smallest member of the Swallow Family.
	www.naturegrid.org.uk /biodiversity/birds/swallow.htm (593 words)

	Biodiversity Action Plan - Sand Martin
		In spring and autumn, Sand Martins gather with other hirundines in large flocks over large bodies of water and roost in suitable vegetation such as reedbeds.
		Sand Martins feed on invertebrates associated with wetlands and areas of open water, some of which are covered by the Floodplain Wetland, Mesotrophic Lakes and Eutrophic Standing Water plans.
		Ensure that the habitat requirements of the Sand Martin are addressed by conditions for the restoration of current and any new aggregate extraction sites.
	www.lrwt.org.uk /pp/silver/viewsilver.asp?id=627 (416 words)

	Horizons Unlimited Motorcycle Travellers' Stories - Martin Rooiman and Jeannette Boom
		Martin is not getting hot or cold from a river crossing and I am not scared either to get wet, so we arrived dry.
		Martin his driving was great but the first road was the wrong one so we had to return through the same sand.
		Martin had his noodlesoup and everywhere I was asking for fried rice the answer was: "No have!".
	www.horizonsunlimited.com /tstories/rooiman/2002_02.php (3660 words)

	Sandgrouse - Banded Martin in Saudi Arabia
		N 3 OCTOBER 1996 a Banded Martin Riparia cincta was observed associating with a flock of hirundines - composed of Barn Swallows Hirundo rustica and Sand Martins Riparia riparia - feeding over alfafa fields about four km south of the southern limit of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
		When viewed from the side and front, the similarity to Sand Martin was reinforced by the overall proportions, shape and size of the head and bill and their coloration.
		When subsequently observed in flight, its pattern was straight and parallel to the ground, with the wingbeats deeper and slower than in Sand Martin.
	www.osme.org /sand201/bandmart.html (337 words)

	Stateline NSW
		LAUREN MARTIN: This sand dune in Sydney's south is slowly shifting, thanks to the wind.
		LAUREN MARTIN: That's seven million tonnes of sand a year extracted from sand and rock sources in and around Sydney.
		Now all the discussions that we have had with marine scientists and people that are involved in coastal processes, their advice has been that, really, in those water depths, it is highly unlikely that there's going to be an impact.
	www.abc.net.au /stateline/nsw/content/2005/s1384997.htm (971 words)

	Birding highlights
		Southerly passage ; Bee-eater 4 at 09.30, Sand Martin 8, Swallow 16, Goldfinch and 3 Grey Wagtail flew north.
		Southerly passage ; Swift 850, Sand Martin 200, Swallow 16, House Martin 3, Flava Wagtail 1, Linnet 63.
		Southerly passage ; Swift 6, Sand Martin 20, House Martin 1.
	www.spurnpoint.com /julybird02.htm (1182 words)

	BTO - Migration Watch - Focus on Sand Martin
		Sand Martins are usually first seen zipping around gravel pits and lakes in early March.
		Sand Martins breed in colonies on riverbanks, sandpits and steep cliffs.
		Sand Martins cross the Sahara on a broad front and then cross the Mediterranean in a band from Gibralter east to Malta.
	www.bto.org /migwatch/text/species/sanma.htm (369 words)

	Martin Sheridan -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia
		Although he achieved his greatest success as a discus thrower, U.S. track and field athlete Martin Sheridan excelled in many events and is considered one of the best all-around athletes of the early 20th century.
		Martin Joseph Sheridan, often called Marty, was born on March 28, 1881, in Bohola, …
		Martin Frobisher led the first English attempt to establish a colony in the New World.
	www.britannica.com /ebi/article-9343796 (666 words)

	Review by Rex Brynen of Ivory Towers on Sand (Martin Kramer)
		However, he does so in a fashion that is at times injudicious, exaggerated, incoherent, selective in the evidence he cites, and so blind to key elements of his topic that he fails to make a productive or credible contribution.
		Said figures prominently throughout Ivory Towers on Sand, both as an archetype for all that ails the field, and as a Svengali-like figure whose hypnotic pronouncements are blindly accepted by legions of academic disciples.
		Intellectually, Kramer faults Said's reading of the Orientalist tradition, suggesting that it is based on a methodologically-biased sampling of past scholarship chosen to buttress Said's case that Orientalism was fundamentally racist and tied to the exigencies of colonial power.
	www.geocities.com /martinkramerorg/NewsReviews/Brynen.htm (2873 words)

	martin -- Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In America the name refers to the purple martin (Progne subis) and its four tropical relatives—at 20 cm (8 inches) long, the largest American swallows.
		The Australian author Martin Boyd is best known for The Montforts, a novel noted for its robust and humorous characters.
		The philosophy of Martin Heidegger is, for a variety of reasons, extraordinarily difficult to comprehend.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9051153 (585 words)

	Review by Shira Pinnas of Ivory Towers on Sand (Martin Kramer)
		MARTIN KRAMER'S IVORY TOWERS ON SAND, a chronicle of the repeated failures of Middle Eastern studies in America, has gotten a lot of people talking.
		He is not convinced that hiring decisions at Harvard are based on political beliefs, claiming that every decision comes down to an "individual historian" and that therefore quantitative cases cannot be made in an issue like this one.
		Although the mid-nineties brought threats of their demise, September 11 was a huge boon to the discipline, leading to a $20.5 million increase in Title VI funding, about a 26% increase from before the event.
	www.geocities.com /martinkramerorg/NewsReviews/HIR.htm (2180 words)

	sand_martin
		The pleasure of spotting sand martins is further enhanced because it is one of our bird species that has suffered a massive slump in numbers.
		This was the result of two catastrophic winter mortalities in the 1960s and 1980s, when sand martins were hit by drought in the Sahel region of Africa.
		I was watching these sand martins from the pictureesque 15th century bridge that was once the main entrance to St Ives and was wondering where I should start searching for their nest burrows.
	homepage.ntlworld.com /rwburton/naturenotes/martinsand (260 words)

	Bank Swallow vs. Sand Martin
		I do not know why or how this difference was initiated, given that the British name for the species presumably had "always" been "Sand Martin." "Martin" has no such restriction in usage in Old World swallows; it is applied to species in several, unrelated genera.
		"Great Northern Diver." Sibley and Monroe (1990) used "Sand Martin," but that book had a global audience, as did Turner and Rose (1989), but in contrast to the latter authors, Sibley and Monroe were Americans, and Monroe was the chair of the AOU Checklist Committee for 15 years or so.
		A minor point is that two other Riparia are often known as "Brown-throated Sand Martin" and "Congo Sand Martin" (Turner and Rose 1989), creating some confusion unless the trite modifier "Common" and its ugly hyphen are added for R.
	www.museum.lsu.edu /~Remsen/SACCProp46.html (1130 words)

	SAND 2004 - 3D Animation for Games and Commercials (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		SAND 2004 is free to attend thanks to the generosity
		Martin Capey, SAND Chair, is director of the
		SAND is organised by Swansea Institute of Higher Education.
	www.sand.org.uk /sand2004/website/SAND-Photoswed.htm (80 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Grains of Sand: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Martin Buckley has travelled both across and into deserts, in order to discover how people live there, to explore the desert's grip on human imagination, and to probe its impact on the global environment.
		I saw that you could almost circumnavigate the earth without ever leaving the desert.’ Martin Buckley’s account of a journey through some of the world’s harshest landscapes is harsh, hilarious, yet filled with a sense of the desert’s culture, ecology – and ultimate mystery.
		The first sections covering his travels in North Africa are the best of a poor bunch, though they give one hope that the rest of the book may improve as he progresses from continental sand dune to continental sand dune.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0099277352 (895 words)

	AllRefer.com - swallow (Vertebrate Zoology) - Encyclopedia
		There are about 100 species of swallows, including the martins, which belong to the same family.
		The purple martin, Progne subis, is deep violet with fl wings and tail.
		Other American swallows, all with shallowly forked tails, are the cliff, or eave, swallow (Petrochelidon pyrrhonota), which builds jug-shaped nests of mud and clay lined with grass and feathers; the bank swallow or sand martin, which burrows into shore banks to nest; and the tree (Iridoprocne bicolor) and rough-winged (Stelgidopteryx ruficollis) swallows.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/S/swallow.html (283 words)

	British Garden Birds - Sand Martin
		Sand Martins, like House Martins and Swallows, are summer visitors from northern Africa, but they are smaller than either of these two species of hirundine.
		Sand Martins nest in colonies, burrowing into banks, quarries and cliffs, and usually near water.
		The severe drought conditions in its African wintering grounds in the 1900s has caused the Sand Martin population to decline, and creates medium concern for its conservation (Amber List).
	www.garden-birds.co.uk /birds/sand_martin.htm (176 words)

	Lake Martin Islands - Sand Island (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Sand Island is a small island near Willow Point Country Club and is a favorite for people of all ages.
		Although in recent years the island has been the recipient of weather damage from Hurricane Opal and a couple of tornadoes, many area residents organize annual clean-ups for the island to help restore it to its original stage for play and frolic.
		Without the efforts of concerned volunteers, the island may soon slip away into the waters of Lake Martin.
	www.lakemartin.com /Islands.asp?IslandID=5 (92 words)

	RW Projects: Sand Martin Bank (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Every year, thousands of Sand Martins migrate through Rutland Water but none ever stayed to breed as their has been no suitable nesting habitat.
		These were fitted with clay pipes filled with sand which lead to nesting cavities.
		However, in mid-May a single bird was seen excavating a cavity and later it was confirmed that ten pairs of Sand Martins (and two pairs of Tree Sparrows!) were nesting.
	www.rutlandwater.u-net.com /rw/RW_ProjectsSandMartinBank.htm (341 words)

	MARTIN 1 (Fr. Martinet) - Online Information article about MARTIN 1 (Fr. Martinet)
		The martin builds soon after its return, and a nest that has outlasted the winter is almost at once re-occupied.
		Birds that may be called martins occur almost all over the world except in New See also:
		The eggs of martins are from four to seven in number, and generally white, while those of swallows usually have See also:
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /MAR_MEC/MARTIN_1_Fr_Martinet_.html (1146 words)

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