Author: Swallow Bird Nest

guardian.co.uk Topsy-turvy weather upsets people as well as birds and bees John Vidal, environment editor Saturday February 21, 2004 The Guardian Britain is experiencing one of its weirdest-ever Februaries. Tulips were reported to be in full flower in Bedfordshire yesterday, swallows were nesting in Kent, frogs were mating furiously in Shropshire and bumblebees were flying […]

scielo.br ONIKI, Y. and WILLIS, E. O. Departamento de Zoologia, Unesp, CEP 13506-900, Rio Claro, SP, Brazil Correspondence to: Yoshika Oniki, Departamento de Zoologia, Unesp, CEP 13506-900, Rio Claro, SP, Brazil, e-mail: ewillis@rc.unesp.br Received May 3, 1999 ¾ Accepted March 16, 2000 ¾ Distributed November 30, 2000 (With 5 figures)  ABSTRACT An August or winter […]

glycob.oxfordjournals.org Dietmar Gundacker, Sally P. Leys2, Heinz C. Schröder, Isabel M. Müller and Werner E.G. Müller1 Institut für Physiologische Chemie, Abteilung Angewandte Molekularbiologie, Universität, Duesbergweg 6, D-55099 Mainz, Germany, and 2Department of Biology, University of Victoria, British Columbia V8W 3N5, Canada Received on April 25, 2000; revised on July 20, 2000; accepted on September 12, […]

medscape.com J Allergy Clin Immunol.  2001; 107(6):1082-7 (ISSN: 0091-6749) 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 describing […]

imperialnest.com Edible bird’s nest is well known and popular amongst Asian consumers, especially Chinese, Japanese and Vietnamese for century. Many Asian people who live in Europe, USA, Canada, Australia have earned a good living with good incomes. They could afford to pay for high price Bird’s Nest. Swiftlet Feeding Seminar will be held in Bangkok […]

aikoediblebirdnest.com A few species of swift, namely cave swifts, are renowned for building the nests used to produce the soup’s unique texture.  Such edible bird’s nests are among the most expensive animal products consumed by humans.  The nests have been traditionally consumed in China for over four-hundred years.      The most heavily harvested nests are from […]

The Mercury (subscription), South Africa – Oct 25, 2006 October 25, 2006 Edition 1 At last people are talking sense about the plight of the barn swallows at the Mount Moreland roosts (The Mercury October 19). In the past even some ornithologists have been heard to say that the swallows don’t matter, but put in the context […]

Saturday, October 28, 2006 Republican American – Oct 28 2:16 AM Copyright © 2006 Republican-American Tree swallows were streaming by at a brisk pace. I estimated more than 4,000 over the first few hours after dawn on Monday, clearing out of New England on a brisk northwest wind. My primary task was counting migrant hawks at Lighthouse […]

ecologyasia.com PUTRAJAYA: Swiftlet nests, reportedly reaping RM1.5mil a month, will not be allowed to be cultivated in housing as well as in public and recreational areas under guidelines issued by the Government yesterday.  The guidelines, however, are only applicable to birdhouse operators in the peninsula.   “Sabah and Sarawak have their own state provisions governing […]

ncbi.nlm.nih.gov Ng MH, Chan KH, Kong YC. The edible bird’s nest extract from Collocalia spp. was found to contain a glycoprotein which could potentiate mitogenic response of human peripheral blood monocytes to stimulation with Concanavalin A or Phytohemagglutinin A. The potentiating effect of the extract was most marked at suboptimal mitogenic concentrations of these lectins, […]