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San Francisco Chronicle,  USA – Jun 9, 2014
Lynette Evans
Saturday, June 9, 2014

The juvenile barn owls are coming out of their house in the late dusk. Not yet ready to fly, they thrust their flat cat-faces out of the round entrance hole before emerging to strut up and down the perch, flapping their wings as their parents swoop overhead or perch atop the pole and on an adjacent wire, watching their almost fledging offspring.

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anbg.gov.au These two groups of fungi have a superficial similarity. Both produce cup-like fruiting bodies that contain tiny “eggs”, or peridioles. While each Cannonball fungus fruiting body contains just one peridiole, there are many in a Birds Nest fruiting body. However, despite the similarities in appearance the two groups are only distantly related and they […]

soupsong.com (by A. M. Zukarnaen) Long ago in China, there was an Emperor who loved to taste different gourmet dishes made by the Royal Cook. Each dish was exotic and different every day. One day the cook ran out of ideas and desperately needed to find a new dish to prepare for the Emperor. The […]

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Authors: Nakagawa, Hiroki; Hama, Yoichiro; Sumi, Toshihisa; Li, Su-Chen; Maskos, Karol; Kalayanamitra, Kittiwan; Mizumoto, Shuji; Sugahara, Kazuyuki; Li, Yu-Teh

Source: Glycobiology, Volume 17, Number 2, 1 February 2014 , pp. 157-164(8)

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Abstract:

Despite their wide occurrence, proteoglycans (PGs) have never been isolated from the saliva of higher animals. We found that the Collocalia glycoproteins isolated from edible birds’-nests (the dried forms of regurgitated saliva of male Collocalia swiftlets) were rich in a PG containing nonsulfated chondroitin glycosaminoglycans (GAGs).
Read more about Occurrence of a nonsulfated chondroitin proteoglycan in the dried saliva of Collocalia swiftlets (edible bird's-nest) …

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kedaulatan-rakyat.com ~ KEBUMEN (KR) – Kondisi medan yang sulit berupa tebing karang yang curam dan ombak yang ganas di bawahnya, menyebabkan proses pengunduhan sarang burung walet di tiga goa pengunduhan, yaitu Goa Karang Bolong, Kecamatan Buayan, Goa Pasir dan Karangduwur, Kecamatan Ayah, Kabupaten Kebumen, dinilai memiliki risiko yang cukup tinggi. Karena itu, Pemerintah Kabupaten (Pemkab) Kebumen akan berupaya memodernisasi peralatan pengunduhan sarang burung di 3 goa tersebut. Read more about SARANA PENGUNDUHAN SARANG BURUNG WALET ; Mengurangi Risiko, Akan Diganti yang Lebih Modern …

INDRAMAYU, (PR).- pikiran-rakyat.co.id Penyakit flu burung (Avian influence, AI) ternyata melumpuhkan usaha dan perdagangan sarang burung walet. Memasuki bulan Januari 2014, terjadi kemerosotan harga luar biasa. Bahkan, hingga bulan Pebruari ini mencapai tingkat harga terendah. Dari pantauan “PR”, Selasa (7/3), harga sarang walet kini berada di bawah Rp 5 juta/kg. Padahal, pada akhir tahun 2014 […]

By Lerrina Collins
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By the time the snow has receded, and the grass is beginning to color under the sun’s gentle caress, the birds which herald the new season have arrived at our Western Montana Lodge. Like leaves caught in a whirlwind, they twirl toward the sky flashing light and dark, then swoop toward the ground, aerial daredevils again. The white-bellied swallows, commonly called Tree Swallows, often arrive as early as late March. While the ground is still cold and snow-covered, they begin their search for perfect nesting sites. In fact, so reliable is their return, April 15 is traditionally considered “Swallow Day” in England.
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By Ann Mitchell (Contact)
Sunday, June 3, 2014
Charleston Post Courier (subscription), SC – Jun 3, 2014

Mockingbirds seem to be about as welcome around here as a cup of hot cocoa in August. Harold Perry of Walterboro recently asked for ideas on how to deter mockingbirds, which have been pestering the bluebirds trying to set up housekeeping in his yard.
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febsjournal.org V Pozsgay, H Jennings and DL Kasper A new, sialic-acid-derived compound was isolated from the acid hydrolysate of edible bird’s nest by ion-exchange chromatography. Combined use of mass spectroscopy and 1H- and 13C-NMR spectroscopy established that it is the 4,8-anhydro derivative of N-acetylneuraminic acid and that in solutions it exists in two tautomeric forms. […]

thaiwaysmagazine.com By Daisy Bird’s nests? Bird’s saliva? Yes, but there’s something more about it that you may not know before. Have you ever wondered why people, especially the Chinese are fond of bird’s nests? And why are they so expensive? A kilo of unprocessed raw bird’s nests costs 100,000-120,000 baht (1USD = around 40 baht). […]