2000-12-19 04:00:00 PDT Muk Island, Thailand-- High in the caves of Thailand's idyllic southern islands lies an unlikely treasure that people are willing to kill for -- the nest of a sparrowlike bird ...

Up there on the weirdest-things-you-can-eat list has to be bird's nest soup. It would be weird enough just to eat your standard twiggy-grassy robin's nest, but this predominantly Chinese delicacy is ...

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. Farmers compete to attract ...

Vocalizations of wild Atiu Swiftlets (Aerodramus sawtelli Holyoak 1974) were recorded as they entered and exited their roost/nesting cave on Atiu Island in the Cook Islands. The echolocation calls of ...

bird's nest soup in a white bowl - CatherineScarlett/Shutterstock Since the 1500s, Chinese aristocrats demanded bird's nest soup for its purported medicinal benefits ...

It was not in a restaurant that I first tried one of China’s finest delicacies, bird’s nest soup. It was in the office of a nest “dealer” in the Malaysian city of Johor Bahru. Dr Tan Boon Siong ...

Swiftlet nests command a high price for the thick texture they give bird’s nest soup. But how does one go about farming birds’ nests? By building imposing concrete towers, of course. “This drab, ...

Bird's nest became a popular Chinese cuisine component after renowned Ming Admiral Zheng. He was said to have been made aware of its health promoting benefits while visiting the Malay Archipelago ...