The sun typically hits the cave during the day and allows for some light, though some parts of the cave will remain pitch black all day. That's why collectors often have to use flashlights when pulling the nests off the wall. After the first nests are collected, the bird will build a second.
Since the third nest is typically where the baby bird will live and grow, collectors wait three months — until it is ready to fly — before harvesting the nest. Constructed with feathers that are conjoined with the bird's saliva, the black nests need cleaning before they can be sold.
Traditionally they are picked out with a small instrument, though commercial cleaners often use a bleaching agent to speed up the process. After the nests are collected, they are exported to China. Newey told us that officials from China will sometimes come in to observe and supervise the process. The vast majority of the profits end up going to China, not to the workers who collect the nests. The most heavily harvested nests are from the white-nest swiftlet and the black-nest swiftlet.
The nests are typically used to create a soup, though they can also be made into a gelatinous dessert. The nests are supposedly very high in protein. Factors like deforestation, pollution, and uncontrolled harvesting have threatened the population of swiftlets. All Bombay Times print stories are available on. We serve personalized stories based on the selected city OK.
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