The Emperor and the Cook:The Story of Bird's Nest Soup

soupsong.com (by A. M. Zukarnaen) Long ago in China, there was an Emperor who loved to taste different gourmet dishes made by the Royal Cook. Each dish was exotic and different every day. One day the cook ran out of ideas and desperately needed to find a new dish to prepare for the Emperor. The […]

Parasitic Swallows

stanford.edu Cowbirds laying eggs in the nests of other species exemplify avian brood parasitism. Some solitary breeding birds (especially waterfowl) occasionally parasitize their own species, producing abnormally large clutches, and cooperative breeders often have strategies for getting other members of the group to incubate their eggs. Such parasitization of conspecifics had been thought to occur […]

Nest delicacy birds successfully incubated

www.thanhniennews.com An indoor Salangane or edible-nest swiftlet raising pilot has shown promise recently in south-central Vietnam where local residents earned their living from selling the lucrative nests as an edible delicacy. Young edible-nest swiftlets The Khanh Hoa Salagane Nest Company has successfully incubated and raised indoor Salangane whose nests serve as a valuable dish in […]

Guam Swiftlet – BirdLife Species Factsheet

birdlife.org (as evaluated by BirdLife International – the official Red List Authority for birds for IUCN): Endangered Justification This species qualifies as Endangered because it has apparently undergone a rapid decline owing to pesticide-use and predation by the introduced brown tree snake on one island, although the reasons on other islands are unclear. However, earlier […]

Swiftlet Bird Nests Harvest in East Kalimantan

worldwildlife.org Based on an interview with Ruwindiyarto (Telapak) The modern history of swiftlet bird nests harvest in East Kalimantan started in the 1940s. The communities had harvested the bird nests in the areas of Telang Teba and Sungai Peta then. Some community groups believed that several clans had inherited rights to manage the bird nests […]

Residents say no to swiftlet farm on top floor

The Star Online – Sep 05 8:42 PM By RASLAN BAHAROM RENOVATION work purportedly for a swiftlet farm atop a five-storey block of low-cost flats in Kampung Boyan, Taiping, has irked the residents.  They fear that the building may collapse and that the bird droppings may be hazardous to their health.  “The renovation work started about a […]

Conference on swiftlet farming

The Star Online – Sep 07 8:59 PM WITH close to RM146mil (US$40mil) worth of bird nests produced yearly in Malaysia, it is no surprise that it has attracted many to venture into this business.   In line with the growing interest, the first South-East Asia Swiftlet Farming Confe-rence is in the offing.  The conference, to be […]

ALL ABOUT BIRD'S NEST

birdnestzone.com A group of swiftles which is widely distributed in the tropical Indo-Pacific region, mainly on islands, is responsible for the production of edible nests of commerce. Their habitats include rock shelters, caves and other cave-like situations including buildings, culverts and tunnels. The distribution of the swiftlets ranges from the Seychelles Islands in the west […]