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Peanut Butter Bird’s Nests
Each batch makes approximately 14 nests

1 bag Reeses peanut butter chips (10 oz. )
1 TBSP. solid shortening (Crisco)
1 large can (5oz.) LaChoy thin chow mein noodles
1 bag pastel colored M&M peanut candy
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nationalgeographic.com
by Jagdeep S. Chhokar and Satish A. Pande
Three birders from Pune in the state of Maharashtra in western India were putting together an illustrated book entitled Birds of the Kokan and the Western Ghats. Satish A. Pande, Vishwas Katdare, and Ram Mone decided to visit Vengurla Rocks, located seven miles off the south coast of Maharashtra in the Arabian Sea, to collect information on the status of terns and edible-nest swiftlets.
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himti.org Siapa sih yang belum pernah mendengar sarang burung walet? Seperti yang sudah kita ketahui, sarang burung walet yang asli harganya mahal banget. Dan yang sampe sekarang kita ketahui juga kalo harga sarang burung walet itu mahal karena (katanya sih..) burung walet itu suka membuat sarang di gunung – gunung yang tinggi (bahkan di puncak […]

Suffolk Evening Star, UK – May 11, 2014
ONE bird has become so closely associated with summer that a popular catchphrases inextricably links the two – one swallow doesn’t make a summer

The swallow is the archetypal summer visitor, yet there’s much more to swallows than simply being a popular migrant.
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Times Online, UK – Apr 25, 2014

Wild Notebook: great nature writers of the past didn’t experience anxiety about the world
Simon Barnes

I look at nature in a way that was beyond the scope of the finest nature writers that ever saw a swallow and felt a joy. Gilbert White, Charles Darwin, John Clare: none of them ever looked at the sky in the last week of April and felt as I do. The dreadful anxiety is the unique privilege of 21st-century humans.
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flavorandfortune.com by Wonona W. Chang Food: Unusual Ingredients Rocky was a very charming and friendly waiter. He loved to socialize with his customers. When he found out that I grew up in Sumatra, Indonesia, he said that I was his good neighbor because he came from Malaysia. Since that time he gives the best service […]

Collocalia spodiopygius 11 cm < --adsense--> birdwatching-australia.com ·            In Australia the White-rumped Swiftlet is restricted to Queensland and occurs   throughout most of the Wet tropics. ·           Like small bats it has sonar ability, navigating in dark caves by the process of  echolocation. ·          These dark roosting and nesting sites are used throughout […]

Hudson Reporter, NJ – Apr 15, 2014
Hudson County has experienced a housing boom in recent years. Now the area’s winged residents, whose habitats were sometimes disrupted by the construction, are seeing their own homes built.

Along the Mill Creek Marsh in Secaucus and throughout the Meadowlands region, the staff from the New Jersey Meadowlands Commission (NJMC) has installed hundreds of bird nesting boxes to welcome home its tree swallow population.

The tree swallows, which return to the Meadowlands every year at this time in an annual rite of spring, enjoy a lifestyle that many of their non-flying friends would clearly recognize.

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americanartifacts.com
Barn swallow colony sites are frequently destroyed when old buildings are demolished or sold to new owners, who wish to close them up. Attracting swallows to buildings where they will be allowed to nest has been simply a matter of opening a door or window, perhaps, providing nesting ledges, and leaving the rest to luck. The chances of attracting barn swallows to a specific building are about as good as attracting bats to a bat box. When a building housing a colony of swallows is to be closed, it should be done after the nesting season. Even then, chances are only fair that the colony will establish itself at a safe site the following spring. Homeowners and farmers go to great length to birdproof their garages and other outbuildings to keep out house sparrows. As old barns fall down, fewer and fewer prime swallow sites remain each year, although bridges offer adequate shelter to many colonies. One potential way to establish a new colony in a building is to transport a nest with young from a doomed site. By moving the nest very slowly, the parents will follow and continue to care for the young. When the old site is lost, it would be hoped that the parents, and perhaps, the entire colony would then nest in the new building the following year. The opportunity to test this theory arose in the summer of 1992, when the H.H.S. mail room was closed off to better control humidity.
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pubmedcentral.nih.gov
J. R. Green
THE swifts as a family are remarkable for certain peculiarities in the construction of their nests, fastening together the materials they use by a peculiar kind of secretion. The nest of the common swift of our own country has at -least its innermost layer so agglutinated. Collocalia faciphaga, according to Bernsteiin, fastens together in this way the whole of the structure. Perhaps the nmost interesting of the whole genus is C. nidifica, a species met with in Java and Borneo, concerning the construction of whose habitation much controversy has taken place. This species produces the so-called edible bird’s-nest, a delicacy long leld in high esteem by the Chinese and lately brought into prominence in England through the Health Exhibition at South Kensington last year. The nest is in appearance not unlike a dried flattened spongy bone such as the occipital bone.
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