Author: Swallow Bird Nest

wildasia.net contributed by Reza Azmi Gomantong Hill is the largest limestone outcrop in the Lower Kinabatangan area, and contains at least nine caves. For centuries, the Gomantong Caves have been renowned for the valuable edible birds’ nests made by two of the four species of swiftlets that roost in the caves. During the harvesting months, […]

Friday March 24, 2006 Peace Country Sun, Canada – Mar 24, 2006 Peace Country Sun — While waiting for the spring yard work to start, I try to get out and clean my old bird boxes and even put up a few new ones. Boxes attract birds that normally nest in tree holes, often those left behind by woodpeckers. […]

The Jersey Journal Friday, March 24, 2006 BY JENNIFER MOSSCROP JOURNAL STAFF WRITER Spring is in the air – well, almost – and for its 10th year, the New Jersey Meadowlands Commission will install 500 tree swallow nest boxes in the Meadowlands in an attempt to keep the little metallic blue and white birds in […]

home.intekom.com/ecotravel/EZine/Blue_Swallow The Blue Swallow is an ambassador for a vital South African ecosystem namely grasslands. The South African grasslands form the major portion of our water catchment areas. More than 60% of the Grassland Biome has already been modified – forestry and agriculture playing largest roles. In South Africa only 2,23% of the Grassland Biome […]

By Blaine Friedlander Jr. and Krishna Ramanujan news.cornell.edu/stories/Sept05/BarnSwallows ITHACA, N.Y. — Even after they have paired with a male, the female North American barn swallow still comparison-shops for sexual partners. And forget personality; the females judge males by their looks — the reddish color of the males’ breast and belly feathers. If the male’s red […]

Berkeley Dayly Planet By JOE EATON Special to the Planet You can hear it over the traffic on Shattuck Avenue: a high-pitched chittering, coming from somewhere overhead. Looking up, you may be able to spot a couple of small, torpedo-shaped black-and-white birds with an elegant Art Deco look, looping through the air above the downtown […]

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Description The birds called Swiftlets or Cave Swiftlets are contained within the four genera of Aerodramus, Hydrochous, Schoutedenapus and Collocalia. They form the Collocaliini tribe within Apodidae. The group contains around thirty species mostly confined to southern Asia and south Pacific islands and north eastern Australia all within the tropical […]

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 […]

by Jennifer Dick uoguelph.ca/research/news One of the oldest Chinese delicacies – a bird’s nest that’s made from the saliva of the male swiftlet, and sells upwards for $4,000 per pound – has food experts around the world swooning for a taste of what’s called the “food of the emperor,” or the “caviar of the East.” […]

NorthJersey.com — Peter J. Sampson A spring ritual is getting under way as the itinerant tree swallow returns to nest in the Meadowlands from its winter sojourn along the Gulf Coast and points as far away as Costa Rica. With the swallows’ impending arrival, the staff at New Jersey Meadowlands Commission have begun installing the […]