Bird’s nest (flavor level five)
Kunashir Island, Caldera of Golovnin, shores of crater Lake Kipyashchee
0004023 CE
Delicious food found at our favorite lakes: Extremophiles at their host lake love organic matter, Sulfur bacterium Thiobacillus thiooxidans, regard this bird’s nest as mildly flavorsome, rated five in the 1-10 scale of tastiness. It has notes reminiscent of dreams of free running streams and ice cool creek beds, most piquant in midday sun. This much sought after medium-sized nest provides a welcome refuge for many more generations of hungry bacteria.
Kunashir Island, Caldera of Golovnin, shores of crater Lake Kipyashchee
0004023 CE
Host lake landscape showing the habitable conditions of one of the acidic volcanic lakes that harbour a significant deposit of paleobirds’ nests, where this gastronomic treat can be found.
Medium sized Bird’s nest
Los Angeles, USA
0002023 CE
AI generated image of the imagined Bird’s nest prior to it becoming a welcome home of our extremophile bacterial communities
Informed by Sánchez-España, J. (2025). From Volcanic Craters to Mine Pits: The Microbial Ecology of Extremophiles Inhabiting the Most Acidic Lakes in the World. Geomicrobiology Journal, 42(8), 633–650. https://doi.org/10.1080/01490451.2025.2508731; Kalacheva, E.G., Taran, Y.A., Voloshina, E.V. et al. Crater Lake Kipyashchee in the Caldera of Golovnin Volcano: Water and Gas Geochemistry, Output of Magmatic Volatiles (Kunashir Island). J. Volcanolog. Seismol. 17, 1–16 (2023).