Birding Indonesia (2)

wallace’s famous line, which runs between Borneo and Celebes, then down between Bali and Lombok, marks the boundary between the two, or rather the point of “faunal balance”. Biogeographers Lydeker and Weber also attempted to define these lines, but thankfully the modern approach is to dispense with academic arguments over lines, think of the central part of Indonesia as a transitional zone, and call it Wallacea.

Taken from Jepson, P, 1997, Birding Indonesia, Periplus Editions. Singapore

Birding Indonesia

A picture of the bio-geographic patterns in Indonesia’s bird distribution is essential to understanding its bird mega-biodiversity, and also to planning a birding itinerary. The world has five major groupings of bird families and Indonesia straddles two of these, the Oriental and Australasian faunal realms.

To be continued………
Taken from Jepson, P, 1997, Birding Indonesia, Periplus Editions. Singapore