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The Tree Swallow is one of the most familiar and most common birds in eastern North America. While it normally nests in tree cavities excavated by other species like woodpeckers, it also readily accepts nest boxes. Along with its abundance, this feature makes the Tree Swallow a favourite species for biologists to study on its breeding grounds.
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canoe.ca By DENIS D. GRAY — The Associated Press  PHANG-NGA BAY, Thailand (AP) — Take globs of bird saliva, a tasteless jelly of little nutritional value, plop it into a broth — and what do you get?  Bird’s nest soup.  For devotees, it’s a divine “caviar of the East,” a delicacy so extravagantly priced that […]

charliesbirdblog.com Wat Chong Lom (Temple), Samut Sakhon Province, Thailand: Wat Chong Lom or Wat Sutthi Wata Wararam fronts the river mouth at Tambon Tha Chalom on the western side of the Tha Chin River. It was constructed during the Ayutthaya period, and the religious buildings in the temple have been beautifully renovated. Apart from the […]

anakmerdeka.blogspot.com Bird Flu High Alert has been declared in Indonesia since the outbreak caused the first death in July this year. Should Malaysians be concerned, especially since we are seeing increasing interest in commercial birdnest farming in our towns and cities? So far the virus had killed 65 people in 4 Asian countries since late […]

chinesefood.about.com Glossary Definition: Authentic bird’s nest soup is made using the nests of the swiftlet, a tiny bird found throughout southeast Asia. Instead of twigs and straw, the swiftlet makes its nest from strands of gummy saliva, which harden when exposed to air. Once the nests are harvested, they are cleaned and sold to restaurants, […]

animal.discovery.com Swiftlet Also known as Black-Nest and Edible-Nest (or White-Nest) (Aerodramus maximus and Aerodramus fuciphagus) Order: Apodiformes Family: Apodidae I. DESCRIPTION: • The swiftlet is a cave-dwelling bird. • It is dull brown or gray in color, and paler on the rump and underpart. Swiftlets grow to be 3 1/2 to 6 inches long (the […]

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Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2001 January 2; 98(1): 16–17.

Copyright © 2001, The National Academy of Sciences
Lee Alan Dugatkin*
Department of Biology, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY 40208
*E-mail: lee.dugatkin@louisville.edu.
It may metaphorically be said that natural selection is daily and hourly scrutinizing, throughout the world, the slightest variations; rejecting those that are bad, preserving and adding up all that are good; silently and insensibly working, whenever and wherever opportunity offers, at the improvement of each organic being in relation to its organic and inorganic conditions of life. We see nothing of these slow changes in progress, until the hand of time has marked the lapse of ages.
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< !-adsense--> thingsasian.com By Wah Heng Like many Malaysians of Chinese descent, I tasted the bird nest soup at a tender age. This is a Chinese delicacy that cuts across all provincial, national, geographical and other divides separating the two billion Chinese found on Planet Earth. In the 1950s, most Chinese wedding dinners (worthy of […]

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[Article in French]
Houdret N,
Lhermitte M,
Degand P,
Roussel P.
A glycoprotein was purified from the aqueous extract of “edible bird’s nest” (Collocalia) using free flow preparative electrophoresis and represented the main fraction of Collocalia glycoproteins.
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Bisnis ”air liur” Burung Walet bukan sembarang bisnis. Konon pada pertengahan abad XIX ketika pertamakalinya Burung Walet dibuatkan rumah, hanya para ulama yang menyediakan rumahnya untuk tempat tinggal Burung Walet.

Sekalipun Burung Walet ini termasuk burung liar dan lebih memilih tinggal di goa-goa di pantai Selatan , tetapi para ulama di Sidayu mampu menyediakan tempat tinggal. Dari hasil penjualan sarang Burung Walet ini, mereka tidak memungut biaya kepada para santri yang belajar mengaji.

“Para ulama sudah merasa mendapatkan penghasilan yang melimpah dari air liur Burung Walet. Penghasilan ini diyakini merupakan rezeki dari Tuhan,” kata pendiri Asosiasi Peternak dan Pengusaha Sarang Wal;et Indonesia, Drs H.A.Khoiruz Zaman, MM yang juga pengurus Yayasan Kanjeng Sepuh, Sidayu, kepada Pembaruan belum lama ini.
Read more about Bisnis Bergengsi dari Rumah Model Kuno …