Category: Articles

09 JAN

The twist technique: a method to minimize wire prolapse during Bird's Nest filter placement

jvir.org JO Roehm and JW Thomas Section of Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiology, Methodist Hospital, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA. PURPOSE: To determine whether a twist technique can help reduce the occurrence of fine-wire prolapse proximal to the hooks of the Bird’s Nest filter in the inferior vena cava. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Abdominal […]

05 JAN

Determination of edible bird's nest and its products by gas chromatography.

ncbi.nlm.nih.gov Yu-Qin Y, Liang X, Hua W, Hui-Xing Z, Xin-Fang Z, Bu-Sen L. Shanghai Food Industry Research Institute, China. A specific gas chromatographic (GC) detection method for edible bird’s nest (EBN) based on identifying the composition of the oligosaccharide chain combined with glycoprotein in EBN is developed. Five monoses (D-mannitose, D-galactose, N-acetyl-D-galactosamine, N-acetyl-D-glucosamine, and N-acetyl […]

04 JAN

Bird's Nest

centerstage.net 2500 N. Southport Ave., Chicago Bird’s Nest is a hard bar to define. The crowd is classy, professional and yet young and out to have fun. There’s hints of sports (pool tables, TVs that seem so fond of sports broadcasting) but it’s not a pull-up-a-stool sports bar. It’s a clean, friendly little place where […]

04 JAN

Where does a swallow nest?


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A swallow builds its nest inside farm buildings and on ledges in old chimneys. The nest is made of mud, straw and saliva, with feathers and wool to line the inside. It takes a pair of swallows up to several weeks to make the saucer-shaped nest in the rafters of a barn. Swallows starts arriving in Europe at the end of March, a little earlier than their close relatives, the house martins.
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03 JAN

Edible "bird's nest"-induced anaphylaxis: An under-recognized entity?

ncbi.nlm.nih.gov Goh DL, Chew FT, Chua KY, Chay OM, Lee BW. Department of Pediatrics, National University of Singapore, Singapore. The Chinese delicacy “bird’s nest” is the most common cause of food-induced anaphylaxis requiring hospitalization among Chinese children in Singapore. This investigation has established an immunoglobulin E-mediated cause and has characterized the major putative allergens. PMID: […]

28 DEC

FOOD DELIVERIES AT SWALLOW-TAILED KITE NESTS IN SOUTHERN FLORIDA


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Kenneth D. Meyer, Steven M. McGehee, and Michael W. Collopy
Department of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611

We studied the diets of nesting Swallow-tailed Kites (Elanoides forficatus) at eight nests in 1988–1989 in southern Florida, where the species reaches its greatest abundance in the United States. Males fed females during the incubation stage an average of 2.1 ± 0.8 times per day. The adults averaged 10.9 ± 4.5 deliveries daily during the nestling stage, and 10.3 ± 12.5 deliveries to young daily following nest departure.
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27 DEC

Bird's Nest in Chinese Cuisine


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Edible Bird’s nest?? I can’t imagine how one can transform twigs and grasses into a gourmet food.

The nests in making bird’s nest soups are exclusively those of swiflets, the birds from the family of common swallow. These highly prized nests are built and clung to the ceiling of the caves as high as 70m by the birds mostly of seaweed that is mixed by their own saliva, making the process of harvesting an ordeal and expensive. Swiflets nests are mostly found on cliffs in areas along the Southern Chinese coast and South East Asia .
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