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It’s called the edible-nest swiftlet because its nests are edible. This is the only reason anybody cares about it.
They are used to make soup.
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Bird's Nests and Shark's Fin
lifeofguangzhou.com Besides sharing an exorbitant price tag (not surprising considering that the first is made from the hardened saliva of the swiftlet bird, while the second requires days of preparation before arriving at the pharmacy) both of these exotic foodstuffs are reputed to be good for complexion and help skin grow. Fortunately so is the […]
The types, Textures and Shapes of Bird’s Nest
The types, Textures and Shapes of Bird’s Nest The different products of bird’s nests that can be found in the market include the natural whole nest, nest strips, nest pieces, nest threads and the irregular shaped nest cake processed from nest threads. The marketed bird’s nest are produced by three different swallow species The swiftlet: […]
The types, Textures and Shapes of Bird’s Nest
The types, Textures and Shapes of Bird’s Nest The different products of bird’s nests that can be found in the market include the natural whole nest, nest strips, nest pieces, nest threads and the irregular shaped nest cake processed from nest threads. The marketed bird’s nest are produced by three different swallow species The swiftlet: […]
Procedures for soaking bird’s nest
Procedures for soaking bird’s nest: Soak bird’s nest in warm water for 30 minutes. After removing feather from the bird’s nest, soak in the water for another 3 hours. Leave the soaking water for later use because it contains nutrition from the bird’s nest. Pour suitable amount of water and bird’s nest into a stewing […]
:For other meanings of the word Swift see Swift (disambiguation)
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Many; see text.
The swifts are birds superficially similar to swallows but are completely unrelated to those passerine species; swifts are in the separate order Apodiformes, which they formerly shared with the hummingbirds.
The resemblances between the swifts and swallows are due to convergent evolution reflecting similar life styles based on catching insects in flight.
The family scientific name comes from the Greek απους, apous, meaning “without feet”, since swifts have very short legs and never settle voluntarily on the ground, perching instead on vertical surfaces. The tradition of depicting swifts without feet continued into the Middle Ages, as see in the heraldic martlet.
Swifts are the most aerial of birds and some, like the Common Swift, even sleep and mate on the wing. One group, the Swiftlets or Cave Swiftlets have developed a form of echolocation for navigating through dark cave systems where they roost.
Like swallows and martins, the swifts of temperate regions are strongly migratory and winter in the tropics.
Many swifts have a characteristic shape, with a short forked tail and very long swept-back wings that resemble a crescent or a boomerang. The flight of some species is characterised by a distinctive “flicking” action quite different from swallows.
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ENDANGERED SPECIES: BIRD'S NEST SOUP
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By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF, SPECIAL TO THE NEW YORK TIMES
Published: January 21, 1987
LEAD: Nothing that a Chinese host can put on a table has more cachet than a bowl of viscous bird’s nest soup. For centuries, it has been a delicacy throughout the Chinese world, a dish famed for its ability to keep people young and healthy.
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Occurrence of a non-sulfated chondroitin proteoglycan in the dried saliva of collocalia swiftlets (edible bird's nest)
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Hiroki Nakagawa 1, Yoichiro Hama 2, Toshihisa Sumi 2, Su-Chen Li 3, Karol Maskos 3, Kittiwan Kalayanamitra 4, Shuji Mizumoto 5, Kazuyuki Sugahara 5, and Yu-Teh Li 6 *
1 Department of Biochemistry, Tulane University Health Sciences Center School of Medicine, New Orleans, LA 70112; Department of Applied Biological Sciences, Saga University, Saga 840-8502, Japan
2 Department of Applied Biological Sciences, Saga University, Saga 840-8502, Japan
3 Department of Biochemistry, Tulane University Health Sciences Center School of Medicine, New Orleans, LA 70112
4 Department of Biochemistry, Kobe Pharmaceutical University, Higashinada-ku, Kobe 658-8558, Japan
5 Department of Biochemistry, Kobe Pharmaceutical University, Higashinada-ku, Kobe 658-8558, Japan; Lab. of Proteoglycan Signaling and Therapeutics, Faculty of Advanced Life Science, Hokkaido University, Frontier Research Center for Post-Genomic Science and Technology, Kita 21-jo, Nishi 11-choume, Kita-ku, Sapporo 001-0021, Japan
6 Department of Biochemistry, Tulane University Health Sciences Center School of Medicine, New Orleans, LA 70112, USA
* To whom correspondence should be addressed.
Yu-Teh Li, E-mail: yli1@tulane.edu
Phylogenetic relationships of the Papuan Swiftlet Aerodramus papuensis and implications for the evolution of avian echolocation
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J. JORDAN PRICE, 1 * KEVIN P. JOHNSON, 2 SARAH E. BUSH 3 † & DALE H. CLAYTON 3 1 Department of Biology, St. Mary’s College of Maryland, St. Mary’s City, MD 20686, USA 2 Illinois Natural History Survey, Champaign, IL 61820, USA 3 Department of Biology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA
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About Swallow from Wikipedia
Hirundinidae , From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Swallows and Martins Welcome Swallow Welcome Swallow Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Aves Order: Passeriformes Family: Hirundinidae Vigors, 1825 Genera Many, see text. The bird family Hirundinidae is a group of passerines characterised by their adaptation to aerial feeding, and known as swallows and martins. The […]