In Greco-Roman mythology the Peacock is identified with the goddess Hera (Juno). The eyes upon the peacock's tail comes from Argus whose hundred eyes were placed upon the peacock's feathers by the goddess in memory of his role as the guard of Io, a lover of Zeus that Hera had punished. The eyes are said to symbolize the vault of heaven and the "eyes" of the stars.In Hinduism, the Peacock is associated with Saraswati, a deity representing...
Thursday, June 30, 2011
Bornean crested fireback Kalimantan
Lophura ignita ignita, Male: Face wattles cobalt blue, of the same shape as those of the Silver Pheasant, that is to say with one large lobe forming a half circle above the eye, and one lower lobe developed forward; head, crest, neck, breast, mantle, rump, tail-coverts and thighs dark purplish blue; wing-coverts dark blue with iridescent ultramarine fringes; primaries and secondaries bluish black; feathers of lower back with a...
Bornean Crested Firebacks
The Crested Fireback, Lophura ignita, is a medium-sized, up to 70 cm long, forest pheasant with a peacock-like dark crest, bluish black plumage, reddish brown rump, black outer tail feathers, red iris and bare blue facial skin. The female is a brown bird with short crest, blue facial skin and spotted black-and-white below.The Crested Fireback is found in lowland forests of the Thai-Malay Peninsula, Borneo and Sumatra. There are...
ENDEMIC BIRDS OF BORNEO
ENDEMIC BIRDS OF BORNEOThe Crested Fireback, Lophura ignita, is a medium-sized, up to 70 cm long, forest pheasant with a peacock-like dark crest, bluish black plumage, reddish brown rump, black outer tail feathers, red iris and bare blue facial skin. The female is a brown bird with short crest, blue facial skin and spotted black-and-white below.The Crested Fireback is found in lowland forests of the Thai-Malay Peninsula, Borneo...
white silkie chickens
It is unknown exactly where or when fowl with their singular combination of attributes first appeared, but the most well documented point of origin is China. Other places in Southeast Asia have been named as possibilities, such as India and Java. The earliest surviving written account of Silkies comes from Marco Polo, who wrote of a furry...
Golden Pheasants Fighting
Golden Pheasants FightingAlfred Clouet, a French citizen, founded Ayam Brand in 1892 in Singapore, which was at this time part of British Malaya. The business was focused on the food supply for colonial staff and the building materials. The food brand was created to be a seal of quality. Canned food was quite a luxury, the high-tech product of that time! The genius idea of A.Clouet was to take a local name, which made the branding...
owls
Owls belong to the order Strigiformes, constituting 200 extant bird of prey species. Most are solitary and nocturnal, with some exceptions (e.g. the Northern Hawk Owl). Owls hunt mostly small mammals, insects, and other birds, although a few species specialize in hunting fish. They are found in all regions of the Earth except Antarctica, most of Greenland and some remote islands. Though owls are typically solitary, the literary...
Download Kicau Burung Pleci
pleci flare a bird collection, pleci birds are small birds with green and yellow coat color memiiliki melekik and bird sounds very funny to pets at homewhite eyesGlobal Deployment:Luat breeding in eastern Siberia, Russia and migrate south in winter along the coastline of Australia as far as Southeast Asia, including India, Bangladesh, Pakistan and the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula.Local spread:Winter visitors are not common...
Monday, June 27, 2011
Calidris tenuirostris Great Knot Kedidi besar
Calidris tenuirostris Great Knot Kedidi besar description of formMost large-sized, 29 cm, among other types of kedidi. Colored gray with a long beak, the upper darker with the same graffiti. Crown streaked, speckled chest and sides of a black body (not visible in the breeding period). Topsy-turvy and white striped wings. In the summer of...
White-winged Duck Cairina scutulata Mentok Rimba
White-winged Duck Cairina scutulata Mentok RimbaGlobal Deployment:Limited in Assam, southeast Asia, Sumatra, and once in Java.Local spread:Now very rare and extinct in many places. Still widespread in lowland forest in eastern Sumatra and parts of northwestern Sumatra. No new records again from west Java, although once found several nests.Anis...
Yellow-crested Cockatoo
Cacatua sulphurea Yellow-crested Cockatoo Kakatua-kecil jambul-kuning description of formLarge (33 cm), noisy, conspicuous, white. Yellow-crested, long-tall, yellow cheeks. Iris dark brown, beak black, legs dark gray.voice description Shouting loud and harsh: "Kerk, Kerk, Kerk" and whistles.habitLive in pairs or in groups in small quantities....
Salmon-crested Cockatoo Cacatua moluccensis
Salmon-crested Cockatoo Cacatua moluccensis description of form46-52 cm. Red-rose-crested old bangbang. The bottom and the feathers fly red-rose-colored old bangbang; tail under the red-orange-yellow and pink old bangbang.voice descriptionCan be readily identified as the voice of parrot, but not loud, high pitched or raspy like most types...
Cacatua alba White Cockatoo bird watching
Cacatua alba White Cockatoo Local spread:Halmahera, Ternate, Tidore, Kasiruta, Mandiole and Bacan. Also Obi and Can (status?). Usually common. Locally decreased due to trapped. Inhabit primary and secondary forests are high, as well as forest edges, forests felled select and traces of cultivated forests in the region. From sea level to an...
Arborophila orientalis Grey-breasted Partridge Burung Puyuh
Arborophila orientalis Grey-breasted Partridge Burung Puyuh Medium-sized (25 cm), have a clear sign. Crown, nape, and the eye line to the bottom side of the neck dark brown; eyebrows, chin, and white earmuffs. Back dark brown stripes, brown wings with black spots and orange lines. Grayish brown chest, buttocks and belly whitish. Side of the...
Monday, June 20, 2011
Aramidopsis plateni Snoring Rail Mandar dengkur
Aramidopsis plateni Snoring Rail Mandar dengkur29 cm. Rather long beak, neck-carat red rear light; tunggir Kadru; face and the bottom gray; throat whitish; side trestle abdomen black and white (possibly hidden); beak redness.voice descriptionSound by itself, but more quietly snoring sounds for 1-2 seconds, including a short sound wheez followed...
Aramidopsis plateni Snoring Rail Mandar dengkur
Aramidopsis plateni Snoring Rail Mandar dengkur29 cm. Rather long beak, neck-carat red rear light; tunggir Kadru; face and the bottom gray; throat whitish; side trestle abdomen black and white (possibly hidden); beak redness.voice descriptionSound by itself, but more quietly snoring sounds for 1-2 seconds, including a short sound wheez followed...
Aquila clanga Rajawali Totol
Aquila clanga Rajawali Totol Birds Anis MerahBirds Julang Sumba Aquila clanga Rajawali Totol : 62-74 cm. Predators are large, dark colored. Adults brown with dark flight feathers pale slender. Wing bottom is generally darker than the fur fly. Children: transverse with white spots on the upper wing.voice descriptionKyak barked at matinghabitFound...
Apalharpactes reinwardtii Javan Trogon Luntur jawa
Apalharpactes reinwardtii Javan Trogon Luntur jawa Large (34 cm), green and yellow. Adult: upper body shiny bluish green, blue skin around the eyes. Tail glossy greenish blue, with three side-brimmed white feathers and white wide edge. Primary feather trimmed black and white, green wing covers fine yellow stripes (male) or brown (female)....
Friday, June 17, 2011
Cucak Ijo Male and Female
Cucak ijo lovers across the country, certainly well aware that in order to distinguish cucak ijo males and females in adulthood is not difficult. This opinion is not making this up given the characteristics of an adult male cucak ijo stark contrast compared with females cucak ijo. If already an adult molt, the most obvious feature seen in...
Kapas Tembak Male Female
Prior to review more on kapas tembak male traits and male gunshot or beard, it might be worthwhile to make the perception of the traits kapas tembak first. Kapas Tembak, for some people also referred to as a beard or a gunshot and vice versa. However, if the two names is a representation of a bird? Based on multiple sources that exist in...
Alcedo euryzona Blue Banded Kingfisher
Alcedo euryzona Raja-udang kalung-biru Blue-banded Kingfisher Medium-sized (18 cm), dark blue and white. Crown, sides of head, dark blue and black wings; line of the chest, back, and tail light blue. Bridle, close the ears, throat, and belly whitish, washed red rust. Female: abdomen orange-red rust, cream throat. Ras Borneo and Sumatra: no...
Aethopyga duyvenbodei sangihe Male Female
Aethopyga duyvenbodei Sangihe Male Female Bird KOLIBRIMacam Jenis Bird Kacer Approximately 12 cm. Males: the top of the metallic green and blue; back yellowish olive;-tunggir yellow ribbon; yellow throat. Females: the top of the olive yellowish; tunggir yellowish; crown scaly; throat and yellow bottom.voice descriptionNot documented, but...
Aepypodius bruijnii Waigeo Brush Turkey Maleo
Aepypodius bruijnii Waigeo Brush Turkey Maleo Anis Merah Julang Sumba description of form43 cm. Maleo similar to brown the bottom of the mountain except Kadru and neck sagged three males. The only maleo in P. Waigeo.voice descriptionUnknown, but probably crowing sound serial or short horn.habitEnglish name: Waigeo Brush-turkeyIndonesian...
Sumba Hornbill Julang sumba Bird Nusa Tenggara
Sumba Hornbill Julang sumba Bird Nusa Tenggara Microorganisms Which Contained In Liquid Fertilizer EM4Anis Merah Male FemaleDescription of form Approximately 70 cm. Most black. Males: head and neck red-rust. Females: Black head and neck.Voice descriptionDescribed in various ways as a raspy tone knock repeatedly; sounds two short tones, erm,...
Extinct bird is threatened in Indonesia
Aceros everettiAepypodius bruijniiAethopyga duyvenbodeiAlcedo euryzonaAmaurornis magnirostrisApalharpactes reinwardtiiAquila clangaAramidopsis plateniArborophila orientalisCacatua albaCacatua moluccensisCacatua sulphureaCairina scutulataCalidris tenuirostrisCaprimulgus concretusCarpococcyx viridisCasuarius unappendiculatusCasuarius casuariusCentropus nigrorufusCentropus rectunguisCharmosyna toxopeiCiconia stormiCochoa beccariiCochoa...
Extinct bird is threatened in Indonesia
Aceros everettiAepypodius bruijniiAethopyga duyvenbodeiAlcedo euryzonaAmaurornis magnirostrisApalharpactes reinwardtiiAquila clangaAramidopsis plateniArborophila orientalisCacatua albaCacatua moluccensisCacatua sulphureaCairina scutulataCalidris tenuirostrisCaprimulgus concretusCarpococcyx viridisCasuarius unappendiculatusCasuarius casuariusCentropus nigrorufusCentropus rectunguisCharmosyna toxopeiCiconia stormiCochoa beccariiCochoa...
Colombian conservation group, Fundacion ProAves found two colonies of one of the rarest birds in the world, Oropenduala Baudo (Psarocolius Cassini
Oropenduala Baudo Colombian conservation group, Fundacion ProAves found two colonies of one of the rarest birds in the world, Oropenduala Baudolino (Psarocolius Cassini)The bird was known to only a dozen before the discovery. Now researchers, who work in the Western Cordillera of Colombia 75 miles from their natural habitat, have found 70...
Cara Mengundang Burung Untuk Hinggap di Pohon Rumah
Microorganisms Which Contained In Liquid Fertilizer EM4Anis Merah Male FemaleInvite birds into the yard of the house is not really a difficult case. Birds love the places that he could use for cover and nesting. Also available is enough food and water.Planting fruit trees and flowers to attract birds a great way, definitely Fahrul Amama,...
Fauna - Garugiwa, imitation Lake Flores Animal Parade Voice
Fauna - Garugiwa, imitation Lake Flores Animal Parade VoiceKlang, klang, klang .... The voice boomed like a tolling bell broke the blue sky. The voice came from a tree branch tunable mountain pine (Casuarina junghuhniana) snaking in the wind spoiled the morning on Monday.The sound was coming from garugiwa bird (Pachycephala nudigula), which...
Bird Gosong Sula
Gosong SulaIndonesia, as the owner of the third largest tropical forest in the world, is the center of the world's biodiversity from ecosystems, species of flora and fauna, to the species of birds. From a total of almost 10,000 bird species in the world around 1594 species found in Indonesia.However, the diversity of birds in Indonesia is...
Coming Pun shady yard bird
Coming Pun shady yard bird Admire the beauty of various species of birds, watching a funny behavior, and hear the melodious chirping of birds that fly freely to and fro can be done in our own yard. If observed carefully, some types of birds are always around us. They are indeed a species commonly found in residential and often stop by just...
