In 1990, the French photographer Eric Valli spent over a year at a gigantic sea cave called Rimau (" Tiger ") Cave on the southwestern coast of Thailand, photographing how the local minority people gather swiftlets 'nests. When his pictures were published in National Geographic Magazine, many people saw for the first time how the nest gatherers pluck the nests from the sheer cliffs.
民國七十九年，法國攝影師艾立克花了一年多的時間，在泰國西南沿海一個名叫虎洞的巨大海洞中，拍攝泰國當地住民採集燕窩的情形，並發表在國家地理雜誌上。