On many small southeast Asian islands, the cliffs are still festooned with frameworks of bamboo which lead into the swiftlet caves, but just like abandoned mineshafts, the bamboo is rotten, the caves are empty and the birds are gone.
在東南亞許多小島的懸崖上，如今布滿進入燕窩洞穴的竹架，但就像被採空的礦場般，竹架已腐、洞穴已廢，鳥兒也不知所終。