Bird's nest is a delicacy found in Chinese-speaking countries across Asia. It's made from the hardened saliva of a swiftlet and can fetch up to S$3,500 ($2,600 USD) per kilogram. Swiftlet farms ...

Swiftlets are protected under the Wildlife Conservation Enactment of 1997, and their nests can only be harvested twice a year. In Southeast Asia, raising these birds for their nests is a lucrative ...

Edible-nest swiftlets, a species of bird native to Southeast Asia, build the nests from their saliva. The nests are used therapeutically in traditional Chinese medicine.

Up there on the weirdest-things-you-can-eat list has to be bird's nest soup. ... swiftlet nests can sell for more than $1,200 per pound and fuel a multi-million dollar trade that can rival the ...

When it comes to home-building, some birds put even the finest architects to shame. Their nests are not just shelters but ...

Edible bird’s nests are coveted across the Chinese world for their supposedly medicinal and rejuvenating powers. Built out of a protein-rich secretion produced by the swallow-like swiftlet, the ...

In Thailand's southern Trang province, a company called Satun Trang Bird's Nest recently obtained a five-year concession on swiftlet nests. Fishermen on Muk say company speedboats have chased them ...

University of Queensland bird researcher Nigel Jackett said he snapped the edible-nest swiftlet and the Himalayan swiftlet over Broome as the cyclone was strengthening off Western Australia's ...

Bird hotels in Indonesia try to attract swiftlets, whose edible nests are a delicacy in China. The swiftlet nests, made of dried saliva, are used to make bird's nest soup.

To lure swiftlets, whose saliva-built nests fetch high prices in China, people in Borneo compete to build them the most luxurious accommodations: safe, clean, dark and with pools for bathing.