Jungkat Beach Revisited !!!

In Pontianak, Indonesia, Jungkat Beach owner (whole family), took me back to visit their Birdhouse which they built by using The DIY.

In July 2008, the number of nests were about 40 after just three months in operations.

Now the number have multiplied to almost 179 nests. There were lots of nest markings.

I was wondering why they have such a tremendous number of nests in such a short span of 6 months.

One of the reason, I suspected, was the location plus the fact that they moved lots of those bird shits from a friend's BH located about a few short distance from Jungkat.

Remember what I said about "Don't Help Your Neighbor's BH buy selling your BH bird shits?".

The location is almost perfect. Close to a Walet Central (Sungai Pinyu) and just beside an astuary with a fresh water lake in the middle.

Now the owner have started two more new units located at the opposite site of the current BH building.

I do have some reservation but the owner seem to be very convinced that the old BH is giving such a huge increased in new nests he just could not resist the temptation.

He was looking for investors to built a few more and his ambition was to be as big as those at Sungai Pinyu Walet Central or better.

There are a few interesting positive points that you should consider:

1) The birds population are high and their hunting areas are huge.

2) The rate of success is said to be 80% as compare to us in Peninsular Malaysia about 20%.

3) Their cost is much lower then cost to built one in Malaysia.

4) Even with very little technology their BH do very well. What if you deploy those high tech to these BHs?

The only negative points are:

1) The title of those land or BH cannot be on your name. You need to use an Indonesian Resident's name.

2) You need to travel by air for at least a day to reach the destination.