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The hardened saliva nests of the edible-nest swiftlet and the black-nest swiftlet have been used in Chinese cooking for over 400 years, most often as bird's nest soup. [21] Over-harvesting of this expensive delicacy has led to a decline in the numbers of these swiftlets, [ 22 ] [ 23 ] especially as the nests are also thought to have health ...
Collocalia is a genus of swifts, containing some of the smaller species termed "swiftlets".Formerly a catch-all genus for these, a number of its former members are now normally (though not by all authors) placed in Aerodramus.
Authentic bird's-nest soup is made from nests of some species of swiftlet, mainly the edible-nest (or white-nest) swiftlet (Aerodramus fuciphagus) and the black-nest swiftlet. Instead of twigs, feathers and straw, these swiftlets make their nest only from strands of their gummy saliva, which hardens when exposed to air.
The ridgetop swiftlet (Collocalia isonota) is a small bird in the swift family Apodidae. It is endemic to the Philippines where it is found on Luzon, Mindanao and the Sulu Archipelago. Its natural habitat is tropical moist lowland forests. It was previously considered a subspecies of the glossy swiftlet.
The Himalayan swiftlet has a twittering chit-chit roosting call, and also has a piercing teeree-teeree-teeree call.. What distinguishes many, but not all, swiftlet species from other swifts and indeed almost all other birds (the oilbird being an exception) is their ability to use a simple but effective form of echolocation to navigate through the darkness of the caves where they roost at night ...
The glossy swiftlet (Collocalia esculenta) is a species of swift in the family Apodidae. It is found on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi and eastwards to New Guinea , the Bismarck Archipelago and the Solomon Islands .
Giant swiftlet (Hydrochous gigas) Genus Collocalia; Plume-toed swiftlet (Collocalia affinis) Grey-rumped swiftlet (Collocalia marginata) Ridgetop swiftlet (Collocalia isonota) Tenggara swiftlet (Collocalia sumbawae) Drab swiftlet (Collocalia neglecta) Glossy swiftlet (Collocalia esculenta) Satin swiftlet (Collocalia uropygialis) Bornean ...
Seychelles swiftlet (Aerodramus elaphrus) Mascarene swiftlet (Aerodramus francicus) Indian swiftlet (Aerodramus unicolor) Philippine swiftlet (Aerodramus mearnsi) Moluccan swiftlet (Aerodramus infuscatus) Subspecies: A. i. sororum, A. i. infuscatus, & A. i. ceramensis. Sulawesi swiftlet (Aerodramus sororum) Seram swiftlet (Aerodramus ceramensis)