Add to this the sheer fun and wonder of travelling in this archipelago of diverse cultures and landscapes and Indonesia is sure to be a place you will want to return to time and time again. Most of the sites introduced in this guide are now easily accessible by car thanks to the country’s rapidly improving infrastructure, but birders with a taste for adventure will find traveling to remoter sites a memorable and exciting montage of gazing out of airplane windows at awesome volcanic landscapes, bumping down awful roads in packed minibuses, chugging across sparkling seas on inter-island ferries, and careering along on the back of motorbike taxis (ojeks).
Birdbody berisi informasi seputar pariwisata, hotel, kuliner dan budaya khas Indonesia
The Birding Travel Experience (2)
The Birding Travel Experience
The birding Travel Experience
Putting a name to the bird is essential for many birders, but of course it is only one part of the enjoyment of bird-watching: the form, colours, calls, behavior and ecology of birds is what makes the hobby so absorbing. The opportunity to see new and fascinating facets of these is the is the great draw of the tropics, and Indonesia is packed with the beautiful, evocative, unexpected and sometimes downright bizarre aspect of bird. From the manic laugh of the Helmeted Hornbill and splendid colours pitas to the unique nesting behavior of the megapodes and gorgeous displays of the birds-of-paradise, Indonesia is delight whatever your particular birdwatching preference.Taken from Jepson, P, 1997, Birding Indonesia, Periplus Editions. Singapore
Putting a name to the bird is essential for many birders, but of course it is only one part of the enjoyment of bird-watching: the form, colours, calls, behavior and ecology of birds is what makes the hobby so absorbing. The opportunity to see new and fascinating facets of these is the is the great draw of the tropics, and Indonesia is packed with the beautiful, evocative, unexpected and sometimes downright bizarre aspect of bird. From the manic laugh of the Helmeted Hornbill and splendid colours pitas to the unique nesting behavior of the megapodes and gorgeous displays of the birds-of-paradise, Indonesia is delight whatever your particular birdwatching preference.Taken from Jepson, P, 1997, Birding Indonesia, Periplus Editions. Singapore
Field Guide (3)
In Celebes, bird identification is difficult without a comprehensive field guide, but it is surprising how far you can get armed only with island checklist in Nusa Tenggara and Mollucas. Most island support under a hundred forest species, with only a few representatives of each family. If you already know, for instance, the difference between a fruit-dove, a green pigeon, a cuckoo-dove and an imperial pigeon, faced with an unfamiliar pigeon there are probably only two or three options, and the species name will give you the last clue to identification. Island lists can be found in The Ecology of Nusa Tenggara and Mollucas by Kathryn Monk et al or on the BirdLife Indonesia Programme’s homepage on the World Wide Web. A checklist, which shows regional distribution, is included in the Practicalities.
Field guide (2)
One is close to completion and the pocket guide Birds of Celebes by Derek Holmes illustrates a selection of species, but, for the moment, serious birders still have to rely on “White & Bruce”: The Birds of Wallacea, an impressive work of taxonomic scholarship but a challenge to use for field identification. To overcome this problem, many birders come armed with notes and sketches of species from difficult or diverse families made from the excellent series of books dealing with individual families.
Field Guide
Field Guides
A pair of binoculars, a field guide and a notebook are essential for identifying birds. There is no single field guide for Indonesia. A Field Guide to the Birds of Borneo, Sumatra, Java and Bali by John MacKinnon and Karen Phillipps and A Field Guide to the Birds of New Guinea by Bruce Beehler both clearly illustrate and describe all the species of these regions, but neither is available in Indonesia. Wallacea (Celebes, Nusa Tenggara and Maluku) has the frustrating distinction of being one of the last regions on earth without a field guide.
To be continued………………………
Taken from Jepson, P, 1997, Birding Indonesia, Periplus Editions. Singapore
A pair of binoculars, a field guide and a notebook are essential for identifying birds. There is no single field guide for Indonesia. A Field Guide to the Birds of Borneo, Sumatra, Java and Bali by John MacKinnon and Karen Phillipps and A Field Guide to the Birds of New Guinea by Bruce Beehler both clearly illustrate and describe all the species of these regions, but neither is available in Indonesia. Wallacea (Celebes, Nusa Tenggara and Maluku) has the frustrating distinction of being one of the last regions on earth without a field guide.
To be continued………………………
Taken from Jepson, P, 1997, Birding Indonesia, Periplus Editions. Singapore
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