Author: Swallow Bird Nest

commercialappeal.com (subscription), TN – Jun 28, 2007
Talented volunteers have created many houses for a variety of birds at Marsh Haven Nature center.
The largest is a picnic shelter which is no longer used as such because it now provides shelter for 20 mud nests built by barn swallows and cliff swallows. At least 82 young barn swallows are on their way to fledging and many young cliff swallow are developing in their mud gourds.
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2007 IUCN Red List Category (as evaluated by BirdLife International – the official Red List Authority for birds for IUCN): Near Threatened
Family/Sub-family Apodidae
Species name author (Gmelin, 1789)
Taxonomic source(s) Dowsett and Forbes-Watson (1993), Sibley and Monroe (1990, 1993)
Summary Collocalia francica breeds colonially in caves and lava tunnels3 in Réunion (to France) and Mauritius. In the 1970s, the species was much less common on Réunion than Mauritius4.
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Observations of birds laying eggs in nests of other species are of interest because this behavior, when timed appropriately and directed at nests where parents fail to recognize foreign eggs and offspring, may be the starting point for evolution of interspecific brood parasitism.
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00:01 28 March 2007
NewScientist.com news service
Catherine Brahic
Birds in Chernobyl choose to nest in sites with lower levels of background radioactivity, researchers discover, but how they can tell remains a mystery.

Anders Møller at Pierre and Marie Curie University in Paris, France, and Tim Mousseau at the University of South Carolina in Columbia, US, erected more than 200 nest boxes in the Red Forest, about 3 kilometres away from the nuclear reactor that exploded in 1986.
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Authentic bird’s nest soup is made using the nests of the swiftlet, a tiny bird found throughout southeast Asia. The swiftlet lives in dark caves, using a method of echolocation similar to the bat to get around. Instead of twigs and straw, the swiftlet makes its nest from strands of its own gummy saliva, which hardens when exposed to air. Humans who harvest the swiftlet nests often come from families that have made their living this way for generations. Prying the nests from the cave walls is extremely dangerous, and many harvesters die each year.
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Rhinelander Daily News, WI – 3 hours ago
TIGERTON, Wis. – A handful of swallow nests might hold up construction work on a Shawano County bridge indefinitely.

Work on the Tigerton bridge was scheduled to begin Monday. But on Friday the contractor found a number of nests on the structure’s underside, causing a delay until state officials could decide how to work around the federally protected nests.
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Principal Investigator
Dr. CHEUNG, Hon Yeung
Associate Professor, Department of Biology and Chemistry
Stage of Technology Transfer: Commercially viable technology
Research Area: Life science ─ biotechnology
 

Background
Edible bird’s nest (EBN) is essentially the tiny nest woven by Swallows or Collocalia (Apodidae) from gelatinous strands of the bird’s saliva mixed with minor feathers or botanic substances. The birds build their nests wherever they like but mainly on the top of sea caves. Since it contains some of the essential glyconutrients and epidermal growth factors, it is a nourishing food and a booster of health. Southeast Asian people consume it because it promotes tissue and cellular growth as well as speeding up recovery from illness.
 
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MK Tarburton

Abstract

The White-rumped Swiftlet Aerodramus spodiopygius chillagoensis was studied during a good and a poor season at Chillagoe, Queensland. Most of the nests were in totally dark sections of caves where a single nest and colonies containing 4-264 nests were visited.
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AllAfrica.com, Washington – 15 hours ago

Mallards Bite Off More Than They Can Chew

By Michael Givant, Email- Givant@adelphi.edu

Until last summer mallards had always seemed placid and boring. Then I began to notice a few in the condo pond where we live. In the early morning when the water’s surface was smooth as glass and shafts of yellow light fell on tall, tan reeds, some male mallards, with their distinctive green heads and yellow bills, were slowly swimming between reeds cut to water level.
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The Daily Yomiuri, Japan – 12 hours ago
The Yomiuri Shimbun

A private group that observes swallows has discovered the birds begin building nests simultaneously in three regions each year, a finding that challenges the established theory that their nest-building areas move north as the temperature rises.
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