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	Swiftlet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Swiftlets are insectivores; hymenoptera and diptera being the most abundant prey (Lourie, 2000).
		Swiftlets are found in limestone caves ranging from the Indian Ocean to the South Pacific (Marcone, 2005).
		Authentic bird's nest soup is made using the nests of the swiftlet.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Swiftlet (1502 words)

	Swifts and Trade
		The Issue Trade of Swiftlet nests began in China during the T'ang Dynasty (A.D. China is the prime consumer of a soup made from these nests (bird's nest soup), which is considered the "caviar of the East" until a policy of austerity under communist rule discouraged such extravagance.
		The harvesting of Swiftlet nests is a potentially hazardous occupation.
		Nest harvesters in Indonesia have developed the practice of "farming" which entails buying up houses with colonies of Mossy- nest Swiftlets which are cross-fostered: the eggs of White-nest Swiftlets are placed in these nest colonies.
	www.american.edu /ted/SWIFT.HTM (1326 words)

	AllRefer.com - nest Information
		Nest is an ancient word, nizdos in Indo-European, composed of the prefix ni- "down," plus a form of the verbal root sed-, "to sit," followed by a suffix used to form nouns, -os.
		Nests vary enormously, from saucerlike hollows in the ground, such as the scrapes of hares, to large and elaborate structures, such as the 4-m/13-ft diameter mounds of the megapode birds.
		The nest of fighting fish is a floating bubble nest anchored to a piece of plant material into which the eggs are placed by the male after courtship.
	www.allrefer.com /nest (910 words)

	Swiftlet / Black-Nest / Edible-Nest / White-Nest (Aerodramus maximus / Aerodramus fuciphagus)
		Swiftlets grow to be 3 1/2 to 6 inches long (the size of a sparrow), and weigh about half an ounce.
		During breeding season, a swiftlet's salivary glands enlarge enormously, enabling the bird to produce the saliva that binds the nest, which takes approximately two months to construct and usually holds one egg.
		The fl-nest swiftlet is larger than its 2-inch-deep, "half-saucer"-shaped nest — when it sits in the nest, it faces the cave wall, while its tail and long, folded wings stick out into the air.
	animals-pictures-dictionary.com /rec/153-Swiftlet-Black-Nest-Edible-Nest-White-Nest... (573 words)

	About Swiftlets - EBN Resources Sdn. Bhd.
		The swiftlet is a cave-dwelling bird.It is dull brown or gray in color, and paler on the rump and underpart.
		Swiftlets grow to be 3 1/2 to 6 inches long (the size of a sparrow), and weigh about half an ounce.
		During breeding season, a swiftlet's salivary glands enlarge enormously, enabling the bird to produce the saliva that binds the nest, which takes approximately 1 1/2 to 2 months to construct and usually holds one or two eggs.
	www.ebnresources.diytrade.com /sdp/108482/4/cp-1064196.html (544 words)

	Charliesbirdblog: Edible-nest Swiftlet, Samut Sakhon (near Bangkok), 16 October 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Nests are harvested from cave walls and there is increasing concern that over-harvesting is causing several species of cave swiftlets to become scarce.
		Eating bird's nests, according to the hyperbole found on the websites of nest merchants, will apparently lead to a remarkably healthy body and mind - forget food, it would seem that swift saliva and detritus are what the human body needs to function properly.
		Swiftlet numbers are in sharp decline, as are other species which notoriously end in up soups which give scientifically unproven benefits, or which benefits there are could be easily obtained with supplements that don't endanger wildlife.
	www.charliesbirdblog.com /~charlie/ediblenest/ediblenest.html (1475 words)

	.:: Frequency Asked Question ::.
		The nest in itself is made from a nourishment-rich gel secretion which modern research has revealed to contain a number of health promoting qualities.
		A : The white and fl nests are differentiated by type of the swiftlet who build the nest, the white nest is made from the white nest swiftlet call “Aerodramus Fuciphaga” and the fl nest is made from the fl nest swiftlet call” Aerodramus maxima”.
		Nest cement that is too shiny may also be the result of chemical additive.
	www.ediblebirdnest.com /faq.htm (715 words)

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		Mariana Swiftlets were introduced to the Halawa and Moanalua Valleys on O'ahu in 1962, where a small population was established with birds nesting in a 30 to 40 meter long man-made irrigation tunnel.
		Nests are composed of moss held tightly together and sealed to the cave surface by copious amounts of hardened mucus-like saliva.
		The population biology of the Mariana gray swiftlet is not known.
	www.birdinghawaii.co.uk /XSwiftlet2.htm (2494 words)

	1Up Science - nest Information
		Nests vary enormously, from saucerlike hollows in the ground, such as the scrapes of hares, to large and elaborate structures, such as the 4-m/13-ft diameter mounds of the megapode birds.
		The nest of fighting fish is a floating bubble nest anchored to a piece of plant material into which the eggs are placed by the male after courtship.
		The red squirrel's nest is composed of a layer of twigs with a layer of moss or bark fragments.
	www.1upscience.com /nest (605 words)

	Bird"s Nest Much More than Delicious Flavour
		The nests are constructed by glutinous strands of starch-like saliva of the birds.
		Harvesting the nests especially for the third time means that although the nests are of poor quality, they had better be collected than be allowed to decay since the baby birds have already left the nests.
		It is believed that the bird's nests of reddish brown colour are produced by the mother birds who have to rebuild the nests for several times until their saliva becomes blood.
	www.thaiwaysmagazine.com /thai_article/2224_bird_nests/bird_nests.html (1265 words)

	PARYAVARAN ABSTRACTS, 2001 Vol. 18 No. 3-4
		Nesting sites on paddy field bunds and marshy wasteland has a common feature in that they were on elevated land within an inundated area.
		The population of the edible-nest Swiftlet was assessed through nest counts, and declines in population were estimated through changes in nest yields.
		The edible-nest Swiftlet is critically threatened in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, as it has undergone a reduction in numbers greater than 80% over the last 10 years.
	envfor.nic.in /paryaabs/v18n34/nature.html (1132 words)

	Indian Swiftlet (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Indian Swiftlet or Indian Edible-nest Swiftlet Collocalia unicolor is a small swift.
		The half-cup nest is built on a surface often in a cave.
		The relatively tasteless nests are harvested and in soup mixed with chicken spices and flavors as a supposed aphrodisiac.
	www.freeglossary.com /Indian_edible-nest_swiftlet (496 words)

	The Bird Site: Nest Building
		Some birds don't build a nest, but instead lay their eggs directly on the ground, in a hole, or even on a bare branch.
		Nest placement and design, along with the behavior of the parents and young, combine to provide protection from temperature extremes and from predators.
		The most frequent type of nest among North American songbirds, such as the robins, is a simple cup usually lined with fine grass or other soft material.
	www.nhm.org /birds/guide/pg017.html (498 words)

	Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: Soup from a Nest? (for the Week of April 16, 2006)
		Birds’ nest soup is a Chinese dish that is made from the nest of a bird called the swiftlet.
		It used to be the nests were harvested once or twice a year.
		Note: Three swiftlet species are tapped for their edible nests: the aptly named edible-nest swiftlet, the also aptly named (and geographically more specific) Indian edible-nest swiftlet and the fl-nest swiftlet.
	www.ohio4h.org /~news/story.php?id=3595 (388 words)

	About Swiflet Swallow
		The nest sometimes was known as Swiftlet nest.
		The flat side is stuck to a wall (a cave wall in wild nests, or a wooden base in cultivated/house nests) and the other side of the nest is a place for them to perch and within the hollow of the nest are either their eggs or their chicks.
		It was at the end of the Emperor rule, that the common people were introduced to bird's nest and the value and demand for bird's nest remains sky high due to its rarity and nutritional properties.
	ediblenest.tripod.com /id1.html (657 words)

	OddsEnds2
		Nests come in all shapes and sizes: Eagles nests can weigh as much as a couple of tons, Hummingbird nests can be smaller than the tip of your index finger.
		They can be fancy like Oriole nests which are decorated with bits of colorful string and paper, to nothing more than a few sticks on the ground like pigeons use, or even nothing at all except a patch on the ground.
		Some nests are on rocky ledges (Murres), some in sides of cliffs (Cliff Swallow and Kingfishers), some floating (various ducks) or in holes in the ground (Burrowing Owls).
	www.libirding.com /OddsEnds2.html (1054 words)

	Natural Source
		These habits fl swallows do, making their nests with mixture of feathers, is assumed being caused by the condition of the caves they live in, which is too humid.
		In order to use their nests as a place to hatch their eggs, the swallows mix them with their own dry feathers, used as a frame for the nest.
		Other assumption as to why these feathers get mixed on the nests is because the feathers get attached on the saliva surface of the newly built nests, because they don't dry fast enough, especially when the birds are on their feather loss season.
	www.orientalbirdnest.com /html/info.html (1032 words)

	Indian Swiftlet (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Indian Swiftlet, or Indian Edible-nest Swiftlet, Aerodramus unicolor, is a small swift.
		The half-cup nest is built on a vertical surface, often in a cave.
		The relatively tasteless nests are harvested, and prepared in soup mixed with chicken, spices, and other flavors as a supposed aphrodisiac.
	www.kiwipedia.com /indian-swiftlet.html (190 words)

	Birds of India - Edible-nest Swiftlet - Collocalia fuciphaga - Collocaliini - Apodidae - Apodiformes - Birding - ...
		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.
		The Edible-nest Swiftlet is renowned for the fact that their nests are used for making bird's nest soup in Chinese cuisine.
		There are yet other creatures that have evolved to feed on these dung eaters as well as the bats and the swiftlets themselves including among others, snakes that can climb the sheer walls to snatch a passing meal and huge carnivorous crickets that prey on chicks and bat pups.
	www.birding.in /birds/Apodiformes/edible-nest_swiftlet.htm (572 words)

	Swiftlet - swallow bird nest - edible swallow nest - bird nest
		But it is their nest material that sets them apart from all other birds in the world.
		What remains unexplained is why such Swallow Nests remained little known for about two hundred years after they had been brought back by Zheng He before there were frequent mentions of them in documents written in the few decades around the late Ming and early Qing Dynasty.
		Hundreds of years after Swallow Nests had been accepted as a kind of precious food in China, they were further accepted by the Chinese to have medical and health enhancing effect.
	www.swallow-nest.com (1049 words)

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		Edible bird nest or swiftlet nest is made by certain species of the swiftlet.
		There are many species of swiftlet family in the world but there are only few species of swiftlet can produce edible nest.
		The nest is normally brownish in colour with the glutinous strands content at about 5-15% in its natural form.
	www.birdnest.com.my /index_swiftlet.htm (409 words)

	All Swiftlets
		Nests are made entirely of hardened saliva and are the valued 'white birds' nests' which are collected for sale to make birds' nest soup.
		Note: Some authors split German's Swiftlet C.germani as a distinct species on the basis of sympatric distribution, but ecological isolation of the forms allows them to be treated as the same species.
		These are the so-called 'fl nests' which are harvested for sale but are of less value than the cleaner 'white nests' because more labour is needed to remove feathers and grubs.
	www.forestry.sarawak.gov.my /forweb/wildlife/mgmt/pa/allswift.htm (492 words)

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		All caves reported to be used by swiftlets are natural (02,15,19) except for one in Hawai'i which was a 30 to 40 meter long man-made irrigation tunnel (22).
		Nests are composed of moss held tightly together and sealed to the cave surface by copious amounts of hardened mucus-like saliva (01).
		On Guam, nests are made of Neckeropsis lepiniana (05), a moss that is common in forests near nesting caves (01).
	fwie.fw.vt.edu /WWW/esis/lists/e101011.htm (2497 words)

	bootstrap analysis: let's eat swift spit! NOT!
		Their 15-gram nests are comprised of nearly entirely of inspissated saliva strands, and are marketed by color: white (75% of the market, shown here), red, or golden.
		Swiftlet nests have been used as food in Asia for centuries, and like many rare and unusual animal products, it was (and is) presumed that they have numerous special medicinal (and, of course, aphrodisiac) qualities.
		Nest collectors cannot even be bothered to wait until the young have left the nests to strip them from the walls.
	www.bootstrap-analysis.com /2006/05/edible_nest_swi.html (960 words)

	Submission No:364
		The diagnosis is convincingly argued with a rather conservative approach with all other possible swiftlets eliminated primarily by the extent of the pale rump and the relatively paler plumage.
		The rump of this bird is described as broad and whitish, nearly as white as that of adjacent Tree Martins, not grey and indistinct.
		Although according to Chantler and Driessens (1995), Edible-nest Swiftlets with ‘broad white rumps’ are confined to populations in the northern parts of its range, the description fits many birds in the population on Bali.
	users.bigpond.net.au /palliser/barc/sub342.htm (491 words)

	IWMC.org - 2nd Symposium - Terrestrial Resources - Successful Initiatives
		Edible-nest swiftlet nests have been harvested for centuries in coastal countries of South and South East Asia and are considered by the Chinese to be a delicacy with medical healing properties.
		Nest production has increased by 3% per annum in some caves where nests are harvested and quality of life for the birds is generally improved.
		The science department of the Company conducted extensive scientific research on swiftlets to determine the bird's dietary habit, abundance of food, relationship between food and climate and impacts on size or quality of nests, and assess natural impacts such as general climate, cave micro-climate, and predators.
	www.iwmc.org /sustain/2ndSymposium/terrestrial/terrestrial-12-1.htm (503 words)

	Taste for Swiftlet's Edible Nest Is Lowering Its Numbers
		The relatively tasteless nests are sometimes prepared in soup mixed with chicken, spices, and other flavors as an aphrodisiac, which makes them a much sought-after property.
		The nest density varied from 20 per square yard to 40 per square yard, resulting in a conservative estimate of 3,000 nests.
		The villagers could not explain why scaffolding was required to collect bird droppings from the floor of the cave, and they were not aware of the swiftlets and their unique saliva nests.
	news.nationalgeographic.com /news/2002/08/0821_020822_swiftlet.html (815 words)

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		Turtle nesting sites on Auk Bok have been reduced to one, in contrast to the more widespread nesting on all three island groups in the 1930s, when some 60,000 eggs were collected annually.
		Cave dwelling edible-nest swiftlet Aerodramus fuciphaga are found on Hgnettaik Kyun islet in the South Moscos, and on Cradle Rock in the Middle Moscos.
		Scientific Research and Facilities Turtle egg and swiftlet nest harvests have been monitored by the Forest Department, and Chhibber (1927) surveyed and described the geography of the region.
	www.unep-wcmc.org /sites/pa/0864v.htm (935 words)

	simply-thai.com - Thai Market in association with Thai Travel Card - Diving in Thailand Image Pages - Emperor Angelfish (Site not responding. Last check: )
		About a half-dozen companies, which have been granted concessions by local governments to gather Swiftlet nests for the lucrative bird's nest soup market, are protecting their caches with private armies that shoot at "unauthorized" visitors.
		Swiftlet colonies are being depleted to supply Chinese restaurants with edible nests from glutinous globs of dried bird saliva that are cooked in a broth.
		When a swiftlet's cup-shaped nest is taken before it can lay eggs, the bird is forced to build another one.
	www.simply-thai.com /thailand-diving-image-pages-edible-swiftlet-nests.htm (304 words)

	Indian Swiftlet Information
		The Indian Swiftlet, or Indian Edible-nest Swiftlet, Aerodramus unicolor, is a small swift.
		The half-cup nest is built on a vertical surface, often in a cave.
		The relatively tasteless nests are harvested, and mixed with chicken, spices, and other flavors as bird's nest soup, a supposed aphrodisiac.
	www.bookrags.com /wiki/Indian_Swiftlet (186 words)

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