Most birders visiting Bali in all probability come for the Bali Myna – it’s certainly a terrific hen, however one which has already been the subject of a earlier submit. So, not a lot ado about it right here – simply two images of a pair that I took exterior of the core space of the park, hopefully indicating some gradual vary extension of the species.
This leaves some fascinating species within the space of the Bali Barat Nationwide Park.
I significantly preferred the Blue-tailed Bee-eater (which Grammarly desires to vary to Beef-eater, so it clearly is just not as a lot into birds as a lot of the readers of 10,000 Birds).
Whereas the Cornell distribution map signifies that Bali is a non-breeding space for the hen, the holes within the floor appear to point nesting burrows. So in all probability Cornell is unsuitable about this.
eBird appears to share my style, calling the species an “Elegant, slender hen”.
Their intercourse life sounds fascinating too – apparently, proof suggests cooperative breeding, intraspecific brood parasitism, and extrapair copulation.
The species could even profit from industrial sand digging – it initially creates appropriate nesting habitats however sometimes subsequently reduces their breeding success by destroying their nests except the sand digging is modified to offer secure nesting habitats for bee-eaters.
One other hen seen on the similar location because the bee-eater was the Inexperienced Jungle Fowl.
Busy analyzing cow pads for undigested edible components. No Photoshop for me.
eBird rightly calls it (or not less than the male) a “Fancy-looking ‘hen’ endemic to Java and the Lesser Sundas”.
The Javan Myna was as soon as restricted to Java and Bali however has since unfold to locations together with Taiwan and Singapore. On the similar time, trapping is an enormous menace for the species in Java and Bali – it’s categorized as Susceptible.
The variety of Javan Myna saved as cage birds is frighteningly giant. A 2018 survey of hen possession involving over 3,000 households in Java estimated that 550,000 to 800,000 people had been at present saved in Java alone (supply) whereas the wild mixed inhabitants in Java and Bali is barely estimated at 2,500 to 10,000 birds.
Apparently, the subspecies Treron bicinctus javanus of the Orange-breasted Inexperienced Pigeon is comparatively uncommon (the general species is just not).
The bicinctus within the scientific title means “double-banded” and presumably refers back to the slender band of pink on the higher breast and the broader orange breast band under.
Frequent birds seen round Bali Barat Nationwide Park additionally embody …
… Pied Triller …
… Sooty-headed Bulbul …
… and Yellow-vented Bulbul.
A Pacific Reef Heron in a miniature lagoon didn’t appear frightened by the looks of a hen photographer.
It saved looking its little pool for fish.
I simply saved watching and taking images till it was time to go away.
