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The Gemara in Chullin (137b) asks where several characters of the Megillah are found in the Torah: Esther (Devarim 31:18), Mordechai (Shemos 30:23), and Haman (Bereishis 3:11), as well as Moshe (Bereishis 6:3).
This passage appears in the middle of a discussion of the mitzvah of Shiluach HaKan. Why does it appear here?
Rashi says that the previous questioner had asked "If a man had a bird nest on his head, is it obligated in shiluach hakan?" After receiving the answer from Rav Masna, he continued to ask more questions.
Apparantly after he received a good answer from Rav Masna based on a drashah of a posuk, he turned the subject to other source drashas he was interested in.
