The Deadly Delicacy :Allure of bird's nest soup endangers swiftlet colonies and drives violent clashes

sfgate.com Sarah Rooney, Chronicle Foreign Service Muk Island, Thailand — High in the caves of Thailand’s idyllic southern islands lies an unlikely treasure that people are willing to kill for — the nest of a sparrowlike bird called the swiftlet. About a half-dozen companies, which have been granted concessions by local governments to gather swiftlet […]

Uncovering the raven's secrets: Bird intrigues zoologist, inspires new book


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From The Burlington (Vt.) Free Press, June 20, 1999

By Nancy Bazilchuk

HINESBURG — Four young ravens, glossy black and big as chickens, listened curiously as University of Vermont zoologist Bernd Heinrich called them. Old enough to fly but not old enough to fend for themselves, the birds looked warily at Heinrich through the open door of their aviary. He waved a bite-sized chunk of veal at them.

“OK, guys, come out. You guys hungry?” he asked, sounding like a parent coaxing anxious 2-year-olds.
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Feature: Nest soup taxing Indonesian birds

By Geoff Earle UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL washtimes.com EAST KALIMANTAN, Indonesia (UPI) — Utuh has never tried bird’s nest soup, but for 45 days at a stretch, the indigenous Dayak man with a wide face and bare feet stays in an open house made of logs in a jungle clearing overlooking a large cave so that […]

CV. Republic Furniture Jepara, Central Java

Republic Furniture Jepara has produce teak garden and leisure furniture for distinguished homes, luxury hotels, spas, resorts, local authorities, restaurant and clubs at uncompromisingly competitive prices. This company is manufacturer and agent of furniture products for all buyers in the world. The company produces from single bespoke pieces to multi-item full container loads to the […]

Health Benefits BIRD'S NEST NUTRITIONAL VALUES

tripod.com/health For centuries in China these nests have been considered nourishing and tasty as well as a booster of health for the sick and aging; they are even believed to be an aphrodisiac ( arousing sexual desire ) Birds’ nest has been used for a long time in traditional Chinese medicine for many centuries. It […]

Swallows' nests turn Medan into ghost town

ecologyasia.com/news-archives The Jakarta Pos By Apriadi Gunawan MEDAN, North Sumatra (JP): Visit Kawasan, Kampung Keling, Ayahanda, Tembung, Labuhan Deli, Sanggal and Padang Bulan and almost any other part of this capital city of North Sumatra, and observe the almost overnight emergence of tall buildings there. Unlike the tall buildings in many other cities, nobody dwells […]

Distribution of Neuraminidase in Arthrobacter and Its Purification by Affinity Chromatography1

Yoshihiro UCHIDA, Yoji TSUKADA and Tsunetake SUGIMORI oxfordjournals.org Kyoto Research Laboratories, Marukin Shoyu Co., Ltd. Uji, Kyoto 611 Japanese Biochemical Society Neuraminidase [sialidase, EC 3.2.1.18 [EC] ] was found to be widely distributed in bacteria belonging to Arthrobacter. Among these bacteria, Arthrobacter ureafaciens, A. oxydans, and A. aurescens produced relatively potent neuraminidase activities. For the […]

Khasiat Sarang Walet Mitos atau Fakta

indomedia.com ENTAH dari mana mulanya khasiat sarang burung walet (Collocalia fuciphaga) cukup terkenal di seantero dunia. Sarang burung anggota famili apodiae ini sejak puluhan bahkan mungkin ratusan tahun lalu diyakini punya khasiat dalam memberikan kesegaran dan bahkan untuk menjaga kesehatan tubuh manusia.  Mitos baik untuk kesehatan muncul dari pengalaman pengguna yang semula disampaikan dari mulut […]

Nest spacing in relation to settlement time in colonial cliff swallows.

ncbi.nlm.nih.gov • Brown CR, • Brown MB. Department of Biological Sciences, University of Tulsa How colonial animals space their nests in relation to conspecifics may provide clues as to whether coloniality provides net benefits or occurs only because breeding sites are limited. We examined how nearest-neighbour distance varied in relation to settlement time in the […]

BROOD PARASITISM AND EGG TRANSFER IN CAVE SWALLOWS (PETROCHELIDON FULVA) AND CLIFF SWALLOWS (P. PYRRHONOTA) IN SOUTH TEXAS

findarticles.com/p/articles Incidence of brood parasitism per colony varied from 0 to 25% of nests in Cave Swallows and from 0 to 50% in Cliff Swallows. In neither species was the percentage of nests with brood parasitism related significantly to colony size (of conspecifics) in either the first or second wave of nesting (Fig. 1). However, […]