Malaysia's largest developer of swiftlet parks that produce edible bird's nests, a precious delicacy in Southeast and East Asia, has ambitious plans to enter the world stage with its products and even wants to raise capital through an initial public offering in New York later this year.

Other animals in the cave include swiftlets, earwigs, centipedes, crickets, spiders, white crabs and scorpions.

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Their closest living relatives are swiftlets, tree swifts that can perch and the hummingbirds.

It is produced by several different swiftlet species in the genus of Aerodramus and Collocalia and the nest is mainly built by male swiftlets [2].

Made from the saliva of cave-dwelling birds called swiftlets, the nests are dangerous to harvest, laborious to prepare and have, according to traditional Chinese medicine, a long list of health benefits.

Swiftlets build nests with their glue-like saliva, cemented on the walls of cold, dark places like limestone caves, tunnels, under the roofs of coves along seashores, and in barns, far away from predators.

Bird's Nest actually refers to the nests that are built by small birds called swiftlets. These birds construct their nests using saliva and other materials.

The swiftlets (Collocalia) of Niah Cave, Sarawak--Part I.

A good example of effective management in a region where enforcement is, for the most part, weak or symbolic, is the strong protection given to reefs surrounding small islands that attract swiftlets to nest.

With one exception, all birds known to echolocate are swiftlets. Birds in this group catch insects on the fly just as a bat does, but they do so in the daytime and track their prey by sight, says Price.

Inside, gold- capped cockroaches, swiftlets (small birds from the swallow family), and a few bats greet me.