Swiftlets are not listed as endangered by CITES or the International Union for the Conservation of Nature. I'm fascinated by the good-news bad-news saga of farming.

From Aug 2, the public can get their first glimpse of life inside the home of Singapore’s largest known colony of edible-nest and black-nest swiftlets via a replica of the bunker in the resort ...

Edible-nest swiftlets, which can only be found in Southeast Asia and East Asia, do not use twigs for their nest; instead, they produce nests entirely from their own saliva.

Swiftlets making nests in the roof of a building in Myeik city, Tanintharyi Region in southeastern Myanmar. YE AUNG THU/AFP via Getty Images "Comfort, by regulating the temperature," Zulkibli said.

GEORGE TOWN: Swiftlets have been part of inner George Town even before the area was granted Unesco World Heritage status, according to Association of Swiftlet Nest Industry (ASNI) president Carole ...

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 ...

David Attenborough describes how swiftlets use just spittle to build their nests, how they do it in the dark, and how he doesn't much care for the nests in soup.

Entering a Borneo emporium in 1922, American missionary Elizabeth Mershon noted that "many strange and evil-smelling articles greet the eye and the nose." While pungent "strings of dried rats ...

On de-listing of swiftlets, some of the members wanted the animal committee to be cautious, asking the government to get its “exact status” before taking them out of the protection list. The ...

PENANG:B/B>TheB/B>inner city population may have dwindledB/B>sinceB/B>the repeal of the Rent Control Act but a new type of inhabitants has been flocking to George Town.