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28 DEC

FOOD DELIVERIES AT SWALLOW-TAILED KITE NESTS IN SOUTHERN FLORIDA


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Kenneth D. Meyer, Steven M. McGehee, and Michael W. Collopy
Department of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611

We studied the diets of nesting Swallow-tailed Kites (Elanoides forficatus) at eight nests in 1988–1989 in southern Florida, where the species reaches its greatest abundance in the United States. Males fed females during the incubation stage an average of 2.1 ± 0.8 times per day. The adults averaged 10.9 ± 4.5 deliveries daily during the nestling stage, and 10.3 ± 12.5 deliveries to young daily following nest departure.
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27 DEC

Bird's Nest in Chinese Cuisine


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Edible Bird’s nest?? I can’t imagine how one can transform twigs and grasses into a gourmet food.

The nests in making bird’s nest soups are exclusively those of swiflets, the birds from the family of common swallow. These highly prized nests are built and clung to the ceiling of the caves as high as 70m by the birds mostly of seaweed that is mixed by their own saliva, making the process of harvesting an ordeal and expensive. Swiflets nests are mostly found on cliffs in areas along the Southern Chinese coast and South East Asia .
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22 DEC

Immunochemical characterization of edible bird's nest allergens.

ncbi.nlm.nih.gov Goh DL, Chua KY, Chew FT, Liang RC, Seow TK, Ou KL, Yi FC, Lee BW. Department of Paediatrics, National University of Singapore, 5 Lower Kent Ridge Road, S(119074)Singapore. BACKGROUND: We have previously described anaphylaxis induced by edible bird’s nest (BN) and demonstrated that this condition is IgE mediated. OBJECTIVES: This study aimed at […]

21 DEC

The Bird's Nest inferior vena caval filter: review of a single-center experience

.jvir.org MM Wojtowycz, T Stoehr, AB Crummy, JC McDermott and IA Sproat Department of Radiology, University of Wisconsin-Madison 53792, USA. PURPOSE: To examine a large single-center experience with Bird’s Nest vena caval filters for indications, clinically evident recurrent thromboembolic disease, and other filter-related complications. MATERIALS AND METHODS: During a 6-year period, 308 patients underwent percutaneous […]

20 DEC

Identification of a serine protease inhibitor homologue in Bird's Nest by an integrated proteomics approach.

ncbi.nlm.nih.gov Ou K, Seow TK, Liang RC, Lee BW, Goh DL, Chua KY, Chung MC. Bioprocessing Technology Center, Singapore National University of Singapore. btcoukl@nus.edu.sg For centuries, the edible nests of Collocalia spp. (“Bird’s Nests”) have been used as a Chinese delicacy that had been claimed to be an effective health-giving tonic. However, clinical studies indicated […]

19 DEC

Effects of feather lice on flight behavior of male Barn Swallows (Hirundo rustica)


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Auk, The,  Jan 2002  by Barbosa, A,  Merino, S,  de Lope, F,  Moller, A P

ABSTRACT.-Parasites may affect host behavior in a number of ways, including their locomotory performance. We investigated whether the number of holes produced by the feather louse (Myrsidea rustica) affected flight behavior in adult male Barn Swallows (Hirundo rustica) by video-taping flight performance of individuals during escape and level flight.
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19 DEC

Edible bird's nest extract inhibits influenza virus infection.

ncbi.nlm.nih.gov Guo CT, Takahashi T, Bukawa W, Takahashi N, Yagi H, Kato K, Hidari KI, Miyamoto D, Suzuki T, Suzuki Y. Department of Biochemistry, University of Shizuoka, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences and COE Program in the 21st century, Suruga-ku, Shizuoka 422-8526, Japan. Edible bird’s nest (EBN) is the nest of the swift that is made […]

18 DEC

[Application of stereoscopy on edible birds nest identification]

ncbi.nlm.nih.gov [Article in Chinese] Lin JR, Zhou H, Lai XP. Guangzhou Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou 510130, China. OBJECTIVE: To study the feasibility of using stereoscopy in identification on Edible Bird’s Nest (EBN). METHOD: Characteristics of white EBN pieces, red EBN, white fungus pieces and EBN painted with colloid were observed under stereoscopy. RESULTS: […]