About edible bird's nest .

Factual Questions
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Hi there :slight_smile: Currently im looking for some information about swiftlet"Collocalia fuciphaga,Collocalia Vestita" that prodcue edible bird’s nest…Hmmm i tried looking at wikipedia but i can’t find a full description about this species,i tried going to the bookstore too…Does anyone know any link that shows a full description about this birds? Im also looking to buy some books about birdnest’s cultivation at tropical climate"Borneo",maybe from some online store or something,any language will do…

Thank you very much if you have any comment or information to share…

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The species of swiftlets are so similar that you can’t identify them unless you have them in hand and make measurements etc.

You may be interest to know that in Bangkok where swiftlets commonly breed in habitations, the nests are so valued that buildings are being erected just for them. It pays more than renting to humans !

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Hehe :slight_smile: ,i know about that.There’s some thing i didn’t mention earlier :rolleyes: is my uncle just bought a massive land for dirt cheap at Malaysia,and it’s next to this

Covered Cave

we first taught it was batcave,but then some locals told us that the cave is actually where all the Lelayang"swiftlet" stays…So i went with my friends inside this cave and we found all of this edible birdnest’s,some of them was infested with fungus and some of them where A grade.

Some of the nest hanging at the edge of the cave

A week ago i was wandering around a mile from that place and i come over this
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an artificial swiftlet cave

So currently my uncle and me trying to find as much information about cultivating this birdies…So i post it up here cos i think there’s lot’s of intellectual people that could help me out,hey maybe you could get a fair share too if this project works out :stuck_out_tongue:

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“Cultivating” swiftlets is a commandable way to exploit them. It provides them a nesting ground while saving the wild breeding birds (it’s also a dangerous exercise, as you know).

I can recommend an excellent book with descriptions, illustrations and distribution maps:
*Swifts, a guide to the swifts and treeswifts of the world * by Phil CHANTLER &
Gerald DRIESSENS. Pica Press, Sussex.
The second edition 1999 is £35 or $68.

It can be ordered here:

NHBS Environment Bookstore
2-3 Wills Road
Totnes
Devon TQ9 5XN
United Kingdom
Telephone : +44 (0)1803 865913
Fax : +44 (0)1803 865280
Email : nhbs@nhbs.co.uk

I wish you the best of luck in your enterprise!

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<hijack> Love your username! </hijack>

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I love it that Callypigian and Gymnopithys are talking to each other. Probably it’s better that I don’t know what “pithys” means, it leaves room for the imagination.

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If I told you, you would be awfully disappointed :slight_smile:

vetbridge, you thought it was callipygian, eh ? you lustful you! :wink:

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thank you very much for the information :slight_smile: ,really really really apreciate that…

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Guilty as charged. :wink:

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Keep in touch! I’m interested in your project. I’d very much like to know how you’re doing. Are you in Borneo ?
Much success!

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Yep… : ),but thing’s going slow lately "especially the books :stuck_out_tongue: " …Anyway nice meeting you,il message you if i got any interesting stuff to say. : )