Sentence examples for swiftlet from inspiring English sources

The starling has survived on a small island, Cocos, off the south coast of Guam, and the swiftlet still nests on the high walls of a cave.

An 11th species, the island swiftlet (Aerodramus vanikorensis), nested in caves and fed over the forest.

The bird — called, appropriately enough, the edible-nest swiftlet — makes its nest by regurgitating long strands of sticky saliva onto the wall of a cave or house, as the case may be.

Getting started in swiftlet farming requires what is, for this part of the world, a significant amount of money.

But on the roads around Sukadana, potential health concerns seemed secondary, and swiftlet house owners seemed more concerned with the flightiness of the birds themselves.

Mr. Iskandar said a medium-size three-story swiftlet house can cost about $16,000 — a prohibitive sum for many.

So far as is known, the only other birds to employ echolocation are some of the cave swiftlets (Collocalia).

The edible bird's nest has been in Indonesia for hundreds of years, but it wasn't until the advent of the CD player that the boom really took off, said Lim Chan Koon, of the University of Malaysia, the co-author of "The Swiftlets of Borneo".

Which leads to the last question… Q: How often (if ever) do you get to go out into the field to report on stories (such as your story on edible-nesting swiftlets)?

A special treat on these limestone islands were the caves, which are typically home to glossy swiftlets (Collocalia esculenta).

"Some wise guy thought of using playback of the swiftlets' vocalization to lure them into purposely built structures imitating the cavelike environment," he said.