Eric Valli, a French photographer who spent more than a year at Rimau (Tiger) Cave in Thailand recording the nest-collecting situation, frequently saw great numbers of chicks and eggs discarded like garbage in a pile, covered with crawling cockroaches.
曾花一年多時間在泰國虎崖燕洞拍攝採燕情形的法國攝影師艾立克，就常見到大量的幼雛、卵和燕窩同時被採收後，成堆拋棄於地面，且爬滿大快朵頤的蟑螂。