* Hirundo rupestris Eurasian Crag Martin

*** Eurasian Crag Martin Ptyonoprogne rupestris

The Eurasian Crag Martin builds a nest adherent to the rock under a cliff overhang or increasingly onto a man-made structure.

The Eurasian Crag Martin was formally described as Hirundo rupestris by Italian naturalist Giovanni Antonio Scopoli in 1769 and was moved to the new genus Ptyonoprogne by German ornithologist Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach in 1850.

The Eurasian Crag Martin is 13 – 15 cm ( 5. 1 – 5. 9 in ) long with a 32 – 34. 5 cm ( 12. 6 – 13. 6 in ) wingspan, and weighs an average 23 g ( 0. 81 oz ).

Where the range overlaps with that of another Ptyonoprogne species, the Eurasian Crag Martin is darker, browner and 15 % larger than the Rock Martin, and Italy.

The European population of the Eurasian Crag Martin is estimated to be 360, 000 – 1, 110, 000 individuals, including 120, 000 – 370, 000 breeding pairs.

With its very large range and high numbers, the Eurasian Crag Martin is not considered to be threatened, and it is classed as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List.

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Other historians, such as the German historian Wolfgang Michalka, the Anglo-German historian H. W Koch and the Israeli historian Martin van Creveld, have contended that Hitler's efforts to form an anti-British Eurasian " continental bloc " that was to include the Soviet Union in late 1940 as a diplomatic prelude to the " Mediterranean plan " were sincere, that until December 1940 Hitler's first priority was in defeating Britain, and that it was only when Hitler gave his approval to Operation Barbarossa that he finally lost interest in the " Mediterranean strategy ".

The natural nest sites are on cliffs, preferably beneath overhangs, but as with the Eurasian House Martin, man-made structures are now the principal locations for breeding.

Species seen: Stone Curlew, Grey Partridge, Sky Lark, Corn Bunting, Red-legged Partridge, Barn Owl, Little Owl, Tree Sparrow, Linnet, European Goldfinch, Yellowhammer, Reed Bunting, Barn Swallow, House Martin, Eurasian Reed Warbler, Spotted Flycatcher.

Most shrike species have a Eurasian and African distribution, with just two breeding in North America ( the Loggerhead and Great Grey shrikes ).

It lies just west of the boundary of the Eurasian and the North American tectonic plates.

Almost the entire Bulgarian mtDNA pool is made up of West Eurasian lineages, with just 0. 9 % of Eastern Asian lineages.

The European Nightjar, Eurasian Nightjar or just Nightjar ( Caprimulgus europaeus ) is the only representative of the nightjar family of birds in most of Europe and temperate Asia.

The Eurasian Hobby ( Falco subbuteo ), or just simply Hobby, is a small slim falcon.

The European roe deer ( Capreolus capreolus ), also known as the western roe deer, chevreuil or just roe deer, is a Eurasian species of deer.

The Eurasian Oystercatcher ( Haematopus ostralegus ) also known as the Common Pied Oystercatcher, or ( in Europe ) just Oystercatcher, is a wader in the oystercatcher bird family Haematopodidae.

Other common names include Black-capped Avocet, Eurasian Avocet or just Avocet.

The Eurasian Reed Warbler, or just Reed Warbler ( Acrocephalus scirpaceus ) is an Old World warbler in the genus Acrocephalus.

The Eurasian Dotterel ( Charadrius morinellus ), or in Europe just Dotterel, is a small wader in the plover family of birds.

The American Red Squirrel should not be confused with the Eurasian Red Squirrel, Sciurus vulgaris-both are usually just referred to as the " red squirrel " in their home continents.

The European Scops Owl ( Otus scops ), also known as the Eurasian Scops Owl or just Scops Owl, is a small owl.

The Spotted Nutcracker, Eurasian Nutcracker, or just Nutcracker, ( Nucifraga caryocatactes ) is a passerine bird slightly larger than the Eurasian Jay.

Its faculty counts more than 700 full and associate professors, among whom two have been elected members of the Eurasian Academy of Sciences, seven have received the honorific title of " Young and Middle-aged Experts with Distinguished Services ," two are members of the subject-specific advisory groups under the State Council Commission for Regulating Academic Degrees, six are " Professors Extraordinaire " or " Minjiang Scholars ", one has been honored as " China ’ s Distinguished Teacher ", six as " Fujian ’ s Distinguished Teachers ," and 22 as " Fujian ’ s Distinguished Experts ", to mention just a small fraction of the countless honors and recognitions won by FNU scholars.

A young Eurasian Coot, just a few weeks old.

Rather than sit by and allow the sun to just destroy all of earth's life, political leaders ( most notably the President of the Eurasian Union, Miriam Grec ), and scientific leaders ( led by Siobhan McGorran, the Astronomer Royal ) decide to embark upon an ambitious plan to literally shield Earth from the worst effects of the storm.

As an indication of his popularity, the Kazakh president Nursultan Nazarbayev ordered the L. N. Gumilev Eurasian University ( Евразийский Национальный университет имени Л. Н. Гумилёва ) to be erected just opposite his own palace on the central square of the new Kazakh capital, Astana.

It is also an observer member of the Eurasian Economic Community and the Non-Aligned Movement.

The area is a summering place for a number of migratory birds including Brent geese, Eurasian Wigeons, and the pintails of California.

From a geostructural perspective the Azores is located above an active triple junction between three of the world's large tectonic plates ( the North American Plate, the Eurasian Plate and the African Plate ), a condition that has translated into the existence of many faults and fractures in this region of the Atlantic.

It is located south of Asia Minor, the Anatolian peninsula of the Asian ( or Eurasian ) mainland ( now part of modern-day Turkey ), so it may be included in Western Asia or the Middle East: At a confluence of Western Asia, Southern Europe, and Northern Africa, Cyprus has had lengthy periods of mainly Greek and intermittent Anatolian, Levantine, Byzantine, and Western European influences.

Unlike the related gray wolf, which is Eurasian in origin, evolutionary theory suggests the coyote evolved in North America during the Pleistocene epoch 1. 81 million years ago ( mya ) alongside the dire wolf.

It is also sometimes referred to as Middle Asia, and, colloquially, " the ' stans " ( as the five countries generally considered to be within the region all have names ending with the Persian suffix "- stan ", meaning " land of ") and is within the scope of the wider Eurasian continent.

Another example is the strongly oblique convergent plate boundary between the Arabian and Eurasian plates where it runs through the northwestern part of the Zagros mountains.

The island is home to an endemic subspecies of Eurasian Wren, the Fair Isle Wren Troglodytes troglodytes fridariensis.

, the Indian Plate is moving northeast at 5 cm / yr ( 2 in / yr ), while the Eurasian Plate is moving north at only 2 cm / yr ( 0. 8 in / yr ).

This is causing the Eurasian Plate to deform, and the Indian Plate to compress at a rate of 4 mm / yr ( 0. 15 in / yr ).

It originates as a dry continental mass of polar air that is warmed as it passes over the Eurasian landmass.

The descent of the Kyrgyz from the autochthonous Siberian population is confirmed on the other hand by the recent genetic studies ( The Eurasian Heartland: A continental perspective on Y-chromosome diversity ).

The country's climate is influenced chiefly by the mountains, Kyrgyzstan's position near the middle of the Eurasian landmass, and the absence of any body of water large enough to influence weather patterns.

It is also known as the European Kestrel, Eurasian Kestrel, or Old World Kestrel.

Krakatoa is directly above the subduction zone of the Eurasian Plate and the Indo-Australian Plate where the plate boundaries make a sharp change of direction, possibly resulting in an unusually weak crust in the region.

This could be the result of koi being bred from a mix of East Asian and Western Eurasian carp varieties, or being bred exclusively from East Asian varieties and being subsequently hybridized with Western Eurasian varieties ( the butterfly koi is one known product of such a cross ).

The smallest species are the bobcat and the Canada lynx, while the largest is the Eurasian lynx, with considerable variations within species.

Murat Ses ( Ses means sound or voice in Turkish ) ( born 1946, Bayrakli, Izmir, Turkey ) is a Turkish keyboard player and composer with strong Eurasian electronic elements.

The moose ( North America ) or Eurasian elk ( Europe ) ( Alces alces ) is the largest extant species in the deer family.

This is most likely the time at which the species migrated from the Eurasian continent to North America.

At the other extreme, the slowest-moving plate is the Eurasian Plate, progressing at a typical rate of about 21 mm / yr ( 0. 8 in / yr ).

The Philippine Archipelago is geologically part of the Philippine Mobile Belt located between the Philippine Sea Plate, the South China Sea Basin of the Eurasian Plate, and the Sunda Plate.