Author: Swallow Bird Nest

Corpus Christi Caller 8/12/2006 Probably because of the climactic change, some unexpected birds have turned up here this summer. I consider the little titmouse calling in my neighborhood somewhat out of place. Several hooded orioles have been seen at feeders and therefore probably nested. One at the home of Erwin Becker, off Ennis Joslin Road, […]

Providence Journal, RI – Aug 4, 2006 The flash of blue is unmistakable. There is no other blue quite like it; probably no other color among wild creatures is as compelling. That blue stops me every time. A male bluebird has flown in and landed on a stump in a pasture. Just like that, all the other […]

Nevada Appeal, NV – Jul 23, 2006 Tom Meyer Bonanza staff writer July 23, 2006 Print Email For the staff at the Biltmore Tahoe Lodge and Casino, the outdoor break area is a place to take a deep breath, enjoy a smoke, make a phone call, or grab a quick meal before heading back to the floor. […]

Rocky Mountain News, CO – 1 hour ago
By Mary Taylor Young, Special to the News
August 14, 2006
The bluebirds have flown.

That’s what we discovered this month when we checked our trail of bluebird nest boxes in Las Animas County, west of Trinidad.
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extension.osu.edu/ Writer: Kurt Knebusch knebusch.1@osu.edu 330-263-3776 Dear Twig: Why do they call it birds’ nest soup? Is it really made out of birds’ nests? In short: Yes. Birds’ nest soup is a Chinese dish that is made from the nest of a bird called the swiftlet. Swiftlets are small, fast birds of southeast Asia. They […]

publish.csiro.au MK Tarburton Abstract The Atiu Swiftlet Aerodramus leucophaeus sawtelli builds most of its nests from lichen, fibre from the crown of the coconut tree and saliva. Nests were smaller and less often placed in total darkness than those of other species that also have two chicks. Most nests were built in September and the […]

ecologyasia.com KUCHING: Sarawak has recorded a sharp increase in the population of wild swiftlets following the implementation of a sustainable management plan by the Forest Department for the harvesting of bird’s nest.  Researcher Dr Lim Chan Koon said the number of white-nest swiftlets in a cave in middle Baram, northern Sarawak, had shot up to […]

springerlink.com Donald R. Griffin1 and David Thompson1 (1)  The Rockefeller University, 10021 New York, New York, USA Received: 8 August 1981  Accepted: 7 December 1981   Summary  The ability of cave dwelling swiftlets (Collocalia spodiopygius) to detect small cylindrical obstacles by echolocation was tested in a 3×9 m flight chamber. Although there was great individual variability, 6.3 mm obstacles were avoided much more often in total […]

nature.com TOM HARRISSON Sarawak Museum, Kuching, Sarawak, Eastern Malaysia. As a result of work initiated at the Sarawak Museum, Medway described and analysed the echo-location system of the cave dwelling “edible-nest swifblet”, Collocalia maxima, of Borneo1. Other work on C. salangana, which makes a moss nest (in Borneo), is as yet unpublished2; however, the taxonomy and […]

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Thomassen HA, den Tex RJ, de Bakker MA, Povel GD.

Section of Evolutionary Morphology, Institute of Biology Leiden, Leiden University, Van der Klaauw Laboratory, The Netherlands. hthomassen@rulsfb.leidenuniv.nl
Read more about Phylogenetic relationships amongst swifts and swiftlets: a multi locus approach. …