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10 AUG

Edible-nest Swiftlet (Collocalia fuciphaga) – with nest –


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photo © Charlie Moores

Edible-nest Swiftlet (Collocalia fuciphaga), also called Andaman Grey-rumped Swiftlet, is part of a group of birds called the Cave Swiftlets. They form the Collocaliini tribe within the Apodidae family. The group contains around thirty species mostly confined to southern Asia, south Pacific islands and north eastern Australia. Edible-nest Swiftlet is found in the Andaman and Nicobar islands of India. These birds are more common in Andaman as compared to the Nicobar islands and they inhabit rock caves near the shore. The Cave Swiftlets use a simple but effective form of echolocation to navigate in total darkness through the chasms and shafts of the caves they utilize for night time roosting and breeding.
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09 AUG

Edible Bird's Nest

chefmom.com This fun craft is not only adorable when done, but it’s tasty too! Sit the kids down to make this fun spring project. Be sure to make extras for friends and family. Ingredients: Chow mein noodles chocolate chips or brick chocolate Jelly beans candy coated chocolate eggs marshmallow chicks peanut butter wax paper paper […]

09 AUG

Gift Giving Edible Cookie Bowl

thatsmyhome.com 1/3 C. shortening 1/3 C. butter 2 1/2 C. flour 3/4 C. sugar 1 egg 1 T. milk 1 t. baking powder dash of salt 1 t. vanilla Add shortening and butter to a mixing bowl. Beat with an electric mixer until softened and well blended. Add half of the flour, sugar, egg, milk, […]

08 AUG

Avian architects — Cliff swallows use materials ‘at beak’ to construct colonies of sturdy nests


Dunn County News, WI – Jul 23, 2014
By Dennis Weibel, Red Cedar Notebook

Last month, millions of people from around the world took part in the Internet vote to name seven new “Wonders of the World.” It seems that some folks were disappointed that only one of the original wonders was still in existence. They longed for a new list of wondrous architectural achievements, ones that could be viewed and visited in the 21st century.
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08 AUG

The lawyer who could not swallow his own saliva

uhmc.sunysb.edu A 52 yo lawyer was referred to your office because of difficulty swallowing his own saliva. He had been in his usual state of health until 3 months ago when he began to have difficulty swallowing. He first noticed the problem with liquids and was still able to eat solids and semi soft foods, […]

08 AUG

Swallow chief flies the nest

The Herald – Aug 01 6:11 PM PAUL ROGERSON The man who presided over the breakneck expansion of Scotland’s biggest hotel group has left abruptly and without explanation. Peter Gray, who was chief executive of Kent-based Swallow Hotels, led an acquisition spree which has seen the group take over nearly 40 hotels north of the border since […]

07 AUG

Underground Help for Owls: Volunteers Build Artificial Burrows for Birds Displaced As Development Swallows Acreage

RedNova – Jul 24 6:08 AM By Dan Sorenson, The Arizona Daily Star, Tucson Jul. 24–Arizona’s burrowing owls aren’t an endangered species, and Greg Clark would like them to stay that way. With volunteer labor, borrowed backhoes, buried plastic 5-gallon buckets and PVC pipe, he’s been doing his best to build artificial burrows for the little owls. […]

07 AUG

Potentiation of mitogenic response by extracts of the swiftlet's (Collocalia) nest.


MH Ng, KH Chan, YC Kong – Biochem Int, 1986 – ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

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.
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