Author: Swallow Bird Nest

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Barn swallow colony sites are frequently destroyed when old buildings are demolished or sold to new owners, who wish to close them up. Attracting swallows to buildings where they will be allowed to nest has been simply a matter of opening a door or window, perhaps, providing nesting ledges, and leaving the rest to luck. The chances of attracting barn swallows to a specific building are about as good as attracting bats to a bat box. When a building housing a colony of swallows is to be closed, it should be done after the nesting season. Even then, chances are only fair that the colony will establish itself at a safe site the following spring. Homeowners and farmers go to great length to birdproof their garages and other outbuildings to keep out house sparrows. As old barns fall down, fewer and fewer prime swallow sites remain each year, although bridges offer adequate shelter to many colonies. One potential way to establish a new colony in a building is to transport a nest with young from a doomed site. By moving the nest very slowly, the parents will follow and continue to care for the young. When the old site is lost, it would be hoped that the parents, and perhaps, the entire colony would then nest in the new building the following year. The opportunity to test this theory arose in the summer of 1992, when the H.H.S. mail room was closed off to better control humidity.
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J. R. Green
THE swifts as a family are remarkable for certain peculiarities in the construction of their nests, fastening together the materials they use by a peculiar kind of secretion. The nest of the common swift of our own country has at -least its innermost layer so agglutinated. Collocalia faciphaga, according to Bernsteiin, fastens together in this way the whole of the structure. Perhaps the nmost interesting of the whole genus is C. nidifica, a species met with in Java and Borneo, concerning the construction of whose habitation much controversy has taken place. This species produces the so-called edible bird’s-nest, a delicacy long leld in high esteem by the Chinese and lately brought into prominence in England through the Health Exhibition at South Kensington last year. The nest is in appearance not unlike a dried flattened spongy bone such as the occipital bone.
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sabah.gov.my Laurentius N. Ambu Deputy Director Sabah Wildlife Department Kota Kinabalu ABSTRACT The two most economically-important swiflets are the so-called edible nest swiflets: the white-nest swiflets (Aerodramus fuciphagus) and the Black-nest swiflet (Aerodramus maximus). Both species occur in Sabah. With the dwindling edible-nest swiflets population due to effects of increased harvesting pressure and effects of […]

suntimes.com MAKES 2 SERVINGS 1 whole swallow nest (approximately 1.33 ounces before soaking) 2 1/4 cups fresh milk 1 egg yolk 2 egg whites 1/2 cup granulated sugar 1/4 teaspoon rice vinegar To soak swallow nest: Immerse the nest in a bowl filled with fresh, clean water at room temperature. Soak fresh raw nest 1 […]

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M Flashner, P Wang, J B Hurley and S W Tanenbaum

The routine enzyme inducer was a hot-water extract of “edible bird’s nest.” Mild acid treatment (0.05 N H2SO4) of this extract increased enzyme activity

ABSTRACT

The elective isolation of a soil microorganism, tentatively assigned to the genus Arthrobacter, which produced an extracellular neuraminidase is described. The secretion of neuraminidase from washed cells in minimal medium required the presence of sialo-containing glycoproteins, whereas free N-acetyl-neuraminic asid of N-acetylmannosamine were poor inducers. No enzyme could be dected in the induction fitrated of cells, in the absence of inducer or in the culture filtrate of cells grown in a complete medium. The routine enzyme inducer was a hot-water extract of “edible bird’s nest.” Mild acid treatment (0.05 N H2SO4) of this extract increased enzyme activity two–to threefold and the specific activity about eightfold.
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Learner Outcomes The learner will • Map the spread of cave swallows into the United States using a variety of historic references. • Map the winter distribution of cave swallows in the Caribbean Basin and Texas using recent data. • Interpret various reference materials. Background Cave swallows first appeared in the United States as an accidental species in the Florida Keys in 1890. The first birds were recorded in Texas in 1910 and first nested there in 1914. The first verified record and report of nesting in New Mexico was in 1930. While birds continued to appear rarely in Florida, nesting individuals first established themselves in south Florida in 1987 and have persisted as a nesting species since that time. One or two individuals occurred at a cliff swallow (Petrochelidon pyrrhonota) colony in Tucson, Arizona, from 1979 to 1987, but have not been reported since that time.
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The Chattanoogan, TN – Apr 4, 2007
Charles and Dreama Dean
posted April 4, 2007

Club officials have declared a winner in the March “Shot of the Month” competition sponsored by the Riverwalk Birding Club.
With a total of 122 votes in the public web poll posted here on Chattanoogan.com Outdoors, an overwhlming 51% selected “Wind Beneath My Wings” as the best out of ten entries.

Some of the voters commented, “Awesome pictures,” “They were all so good. Congratulations to the photographers. ,” “Thanks for letting the public vote,” “Great pictures,” “Super,” “All pictures were great,” and finally, “I went with Timber-r-r-r- because the name Wind Beneath My Wings makes me think of a song I do not like .”

You can view all of the entries here.

Harold Sharp says “If you would like to view these beautiful birds up close, drive up Amnicola Highway, turn toward the Election Headquarters building at the red light, turn right at the first intersection then right again on the first road, go into the Riverwalk Parking lot at south end of Amnicola Marsh. Look for a bluebird box on your left and another one on your right in the cul-d-sac, both boxes have Tree Swallow nest. This is where the photo was made. You should see the Tree Swallows near these boxes.
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Scotsman, UK ‘There was a lot of blood and a lot of missing feathers’ Jamie Hall, edmontonjournal.com Published: Tuesday, April 24, 2007 EDMONTON — The fight, says, Geoff Holroyd, unfolded like an episode of “Animal Kingdom, Jerry Springer-style.” A female peregrine falcon received a rude homecoming when she landed in her nestbox at the University […]

Malta Today, Malta – Apr 22, 2007
Silvio Camilleri (see facing page) has evidently never watched The Muppet Show. Otherwise, as this classic illustration amply shows, he would have known what thousands of five-year-olds the world over already know.
Eagles have eyebrows.
However, I’m not at all sure whether Attorney Generals have eyes. Yes, yes, I know justice is supposed to be blind, and all that. But the reason I question Camilleri’s faculty of vision has nothing to do with aquiline superciliousness. It is his objection to the “hypothetical” cases I alluded to in my article last week.
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Hudson Reporter, NJ – Apr 15, 2007 Hudson County has experienced a housing boom in recent years. Now the area’s winged residents, whose habitats were sometimes disrupted by the construction, are seeing their own homes built. Along the Mill Creek Marsh in Secaucus and throughout the Meadowlands region, the staff from the New Jersey Meadowlands Commission (NJMC) […]