such as severe allergic reactions to the swiftlet's saliva or food poisoning from leftover bacteria. There are two common recipes for making bird's nest soup. An essential step in both is soaking ...

A researcher says he has photographed two types of Asian swiftlets for the first time in Australia after they blew in on the winds of Tropical Cyclone Damien. The edible-nest swiftlet and the ...

are the key ingredient in bird’s nest soup, an expensive delicacy believed by many Chinese to have health benefits. Image A freshly harvested swiftlet’s nest. Left to their own devices ...

The swiftlet nests, made of dried saliva, are used to make bird's nest soup. Farmers compete to attract the swiftlets by ensuring their birdhouses have the right conditions. People in Indonesia ...

Bird's Nest soup is a famous delicacy in Chinese cuisine, known for being made from the nests of Edible-nest swiftlets. These birds, native to South Asia, create their nests using their own saliva. In ...

Due to a belief in the high medicinal value of bird's nest soup, heavy Chinese demand for swiftlet nests has resulted in a multibillion-dollar industry that may be endangering the bird. There are ...

swiftlets build nests out of their sticky saliva on cave walls and cliff sides, where they raise their young. It's the high cost of these saliva nests that makes bird's nest soup so expensive.