Introduction
Musim Mas’ plantations run in Indonesia, home to a varied variety of flora and fauna. As a leading sustainable palm oil corporation, Musim Mas thinks that biodiversity can co-exist with its accountable business operations.
Musim Mas’ preservation effort consists of forest stewardship, riparian buffer restoration, and active tracking of wildlife and other ecological signs within both HCV locations and the surrounding land concessions.
The group has actually likewise carried out a significant research study to evaluate its interventions for efficiency, such as whether its efforts to maintain and improve biodiversity in the plantations have actually worked, along with methods to enhance its efforts. This was done by supplying 12 years of biodiversity information collected by Musim Mas’ sustainability group, for a study by the UK-based South East Asia Rainforest Research Partnership (SEARRP).
Musim Mas Group is among the world’s biggest sustainable and integrated palm oil corporations, and was the very first palm significant in Indonesia to sign up with the RSPO (in 2004). Musim Mas has actually carried out a range of preservation interventions throughout the business’s plantations in Indonesia.
Going beyond preservation alone, the group wishes to evaluate its interventions’ efficiency to guarantee they have the designated favorable effect on biodiversity. Musim Mas set out to comprehend how biodiversity was reacting in the plantations, whether its preservation management strategy was assisting to keep or improve biodiversity, and if there are methods keeping track of and management might be enhanced.
Bird Sightings
Over the last 12 years, Musim Mas’ sustainability group followed clinical procedures to tape-record types richness in its concession locations. This was mostly performed in the form of month-to-month studies at designated plots where the group taped information on the range of animal and bug sightings. The bird sightings were especially noteworthy. Below are a few of the ranges of bird types caught by the group.
Long-Tailed Shrike
Scientific name: Lanius schach
Bahasa Indonesia: Bentet Kelabu
Characteristics:
- Typically black, brown, and white color, with a body size of ±20 – 25 cm
- Black forehead, mask, and a long tail
- Black wings with white areas
- Dark grey crown and neck
- Very light brown back and upper-tail concealed
- White breast and stubborn belly
The long-tailed shrike is active in open locations, meadows, plantations, and other open locations. It forages for food while setting down. This bird eats bugs and vertebrae such as little mammals, lizards, frogs, crabs, and smaller sized birds, and regularly eats insects and bugs on the ground. They’re likewise understood to take food from other birds. It recreates all through the year. This types is dispersed in the Sumatran islands, Java, Borneo, and Lesser Sunda (as much as Timor Island).
Conservation status:
Long-Tailed Shrike (Lanius Schach) is noted as Least Concern in the “IUCN Red List of Threatened Species”. This types is not yet secured under “Peraturan Menteri Lingkungan Hidup dan Kehutanan Nomor.P.106/MENLHK/SETJEN/KUM.1/12/2018”.
Orange-Bellied Flowerpecker
Scientific name: Dicaeum trigonostigma
Bahasa Indonesia: Cabai Bunga Api
This bird has a striking orange and blue color, with a little body size. Its favored foods are fruits or parasitic plants. It is discovered in Riau Islands, Lingga Islands, Borneo, Sumatra, Natuna, Java, and Bali.
Male Bird Characteristics:
- Bluish head, wings, and tail
- Distinct orange upper-tail concealed and stubborn belly
- Grey throat
Female Bird Characteristics:
- Olive back, wings, and tail
- Yellow stubborn belly
- Greenish-orange upper tail plumes
Conservation status:
Orange-bellied Flowerpecker (Dicaeum Trigonostigma) is noted as Least Concern in the “IUCN Red List of Threatened Species”. This types is not yet secured under “Peraturan Menteri Lingkungan Hidup dan Kehutanan Nomor.P.106/MENLHK/SETJEN/KUM.1/12/2018”.
Black-Headed Bulbul
Scientific name: Brachypodius atriceps
Bahasa Indonesia: Cucak Kuricang
Characteristics:
- Shiny black head and throat
- Yellow-olive upper body
- Its wings and tail are black/dark grey in color, with an unique yellow-colored tint on the pointer
- Its lower body is greenish yellow
- Pale blue iris
- Black beak and brown feet
This bird performs its activities by itself or with other birds when going to forest edges or shrubs. Its chosen diet plan is fruits particularly ficuses, besides eating numerous little bugs. Its breeding season is from January through September, however primarily in March-June. This types is dispersed in Sumatra, Nias, Mentawai, Java, and Borneo.
Conservation status:
Black-headed Bulbul (Brachypodius Atriceps) is noted as Least Concern in the “IUCN Red List of Threatened Species”. This types is not yet ptotected under “Peraturan Menteri Lingkungan Hidup dan Kehutanan Nomor.P.106/MENLHK/SETJEN/KUM.1/12/2018”.
Sooty-Headed Bulbul
Scientific name: Pycnonotus aurigaster
Bahasa Indonesia: Cucak Kutilang
Characteristics:
- Black crown and whitish upper-tail concealed
- Yellowish orange on its under-tail concealed
- Black chin and black upper head
- White neck, upper tail plumes, breast, and stubborn belly
- Black wings and brown tails
This bird is regularly seen in almost all kinds of environments, consisting of settlements, open areas, roadway edges, backyards, gardens, shrubs, and secondary forests. It tends to cohabit in groups with their own types or with other types.
The Sooty-Headed Bulbul tends to consume bugs and soft fruits. In the early morning it’s typically seen setting down under the early morning sun (sunbathing) to keep healthy plumes. Its nest is cup-shaped and constructed from woven yard and leaves, leaf stalks, and little branches. This bird has a loud high-pitched warbling call, and it can be discovered throughout Java, Bali, Sumatra, Sulawesi, Borneo, and Papua.
Conservation status:
Sooty-Headed Bulbul (Pycnonotus Aurigaster) is noted as Least Concern in the “IUCN Red List of Threatened Species”. This types is not yet secured under “Peraturan Menteri Lingkungan Hidup dan Kehutanan Nomor.P.106/MENLHK/SETJEN/KUM.1/12/2018”.
Black-Winged Kite
Scientific name: Elanus caeruleus
Bahasa Indonesia: Elang Tikus
Black-Winged Kite has a moderate body size with the following qualities:
- Black areas on its scapula
- It has an unique, long black primaries
- An adult bird has grey crown, back, wings, secondary plume, and upper-tail concealed
- White face, neck, and stubborn belly
- A juvenile bird has brown patterns
- Hovering around when trying to find its victim
- It flaps its wings when fixed
- It has red iris, black and yellow beak, along with yellow feet
This types resides in open lowlands and hills as much as 2000 meters in elevation. The Black-Winged Kite normally sets down on dead trees and hovers around when hunting for victim. It normally looks for victim in open lowlands with limited tree cover. This bird eats insects, lizards, caterpillars, mice, and young birds. Its nest is made up of branches, combined with leaves, constructed on trees in the forests. This types can be discovered in Java, Sumatra, Sulawesi, Borneo, and Nusa Tenggara.
Conservation Status:
Black-Winged Kite (Elanus Caeruleus) is noted as Least Concern in the “IUCN Red List of Threatened Species”. This types is secured under “Peraturan Menteri Lingkungan Hidup dan Kehutanan Nomor.P.106/MENLHK/SETJEN/KUM.1/12/2018”.
Oriental Pied Hornbill
Scientific name: Anthracoceros albirostris
Bahasa Indonesia: Kangkareng Perut Putih
This bird has fairly little body size with 2 colors, black and white. Its qualities are:
- White-yellow huge horn
- Black plumes all over its body
- White patterns under its eyes, stubborn belly, thighs, and under-tail concealed
- White plumes on its wing pointer and the external part of its tail
- Dark brown iris
- No plumes on the skin around its eyes
- White throat, yellowish-white horn and expense, with white areas on its lower mandible and the front of its expense
- Black feet
- Makes a constant squawking noise
This kind of bird chooses more open environments such as forest edges, logged forests, and secondary forests. This types flies in sets or loud groups. It likes to flap its wings and sets down on trees. It likewise in some cases comes down on the forest flooring. Its diet plan includes fruits and little animals. This bird types can be discovered in Java, Sumatra, Sulawesi, Borneo, and Bali locations.
Conservation status:
Oriental Pied Hornbill (Anthracoceros Albirostris) is noted as Least Concern in the “IUCN Red List of Threatened Species”. However, they are under the defense of Indonesia law, “Peraturan Menteri Lingkungan Hidup dan Kehutanan Nomor.P.106/MENLHK/SETJEN/KUM.1/12/2018”.
Javan Myna
Scientific name: Acridotheres javanicus
Bahasa Indonesia: Kerak Kerbau
Javan Myna is reasonably sized with the following qualities:
- Dark grey plumes (almost black), with white areas on its primaries
- White upper-tail concealed and tail pointer
- It has a little crown on its head
- Its tune is hoarse with a creaking tone
- This bird likewise whistles and has an unique creak when flying
- This types likewise has the capability to mimic other types’ noises
This bird resides in groups, little or big. Most of them forage on the ground, meadow, and rice fields. It typically sets down on cows or buffalos. This bird eats bugs. This types is discovered throughout a number of areas, particularly Java, Sumatra, and Bali Islands.
Conservation status:
Javan Myna (Acridotheres Javanicus) is noted as susceptible in the “IUCN Red List of Threatened Species”. This types may be in threat to extinct in the wild life unless there are good services for their safety and recreation. Widespread and unlawful trapping for the cage-bird trade is likewise obviously leading to a quick population decrease. This types for that reason certifies as Vulnerable. However, this types is not yet secured under “Peraturan Menteri Lingkungan Hidup dan Kehutanan Nomor.P.106/MENLHK/SETJEN/KUM.1/12/2018”.
Scarlet-Rumped Tragon
Scientific name: Harpactes duvaucelii
Bahasa Indonesia: Luntur Kepala Merah
Male Bird Characteristics:
- Black head
- Blue patterns on its beak
- Dark red stubborn belly
- Light brown back
- Distinct dark red under-tail concealed
- No pendant or crescent pattern on its breast
Female Bird Characteristics:
- Brown breast
- Orange stubborn belly
- Frequently discovered in overload or forest locations
This bird has a rather little body (±23cm). Its breeding season is approximated to occur in between February-June. It normally constructs its nest utilizing decayed tree stump. This types is dispersed throughout a number of locations: Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra, and Borneo.
Conservation status:
Scarlet-Rumped Tragon (Harpactes Duvaucelii) is noted as Near Threatened in the “IUCN Red List of Threatened Species”. As it is most likely to be decreasing quickly, due to the wholesale clearance of lowland forest environments throughout its variety. This types is secured under “Peraturan Menteri Lingkungan Hidup dan Kehutanan Nomor.P.106/MENLHK/SETJEN/KUM.1/12/2018”.
Brown-Throated Sunbird
Scientific name: Anthreptes malacensis
Bahasa Indonesia: Madu Kelapa
Male Bird Characteristics:
- It has a crown
- Shiny green back
- Shiny purple upper-tail concealed, secondary and tail
- Opaque dark brown malar location, chin, and throat
- Yellow stubborn belly
Female Bird Characteristics:
- Olive green upper body
- Light yellow stubborn belly
- Red iris
- Black beak and greyish black feet
The Brown-Throated Sunbird is a nectar-sucking bird with a reasonably little body. Generally discovered in lowlands, this bird is active in open backyards, coconut gardens, seaside shrubs, and mangrove forests. It eats nectar from trumpet-shaped flowers of parasitic plants, bananas, and hibiscus. It likewise eats bugs. This types types all throughout the year. Its nest is sac-shaped and made from yard fibers. This types spreads out throughout Java, Sumatra, Sulawesi, Nusa Tenggara, Borneo, and Bali Island.
Conservation status:
Brown-Throated Sunbird (Anthreptes Malacensis) is noted as Least Concern in the “IUCN Red List of Threatened Species”. Their population pattern is fairly steady. This types is not yet secured under “Peraturan Menteri Lingkungan Hidup dan Kehutanan Nomor.P.106/MENLHK/SETJEN/KUM.1/12/2018”.
Little Green-Pigeon
Scientific name: Punai kecil
Bahasa Indonesia: Treron Olax
Little Green-Pigeon is a bird types that has an especially little beak. They are warm-blooded and primarily discovered in Sumatra, Kalimantan, Java and Bali. They have actually a somewhat rounded, chubby frame with a brief however strong beak which is utilized to eat fruits and nuts.
Their nests are normally made from branches and are flat and rectangle-shaped fit. The male of the types plays building the nests which are normally situated 3-4 meters in the air. Their eggs are white and will normally be bred by the female birds for 15-20 days. They normally take in water as much as as much as 15% of their body weight. The Little Green Pigeon tends to take a trip in groups in accordance to the season. During fall, they will take a trip with group of 30-50 birds, while they will take a trip with 7-10 in a group on rainy season. Area of circulation: Java, Sumatra, and Borneo
Conservation status:
Little Green-Pigeon (Treron Olax) is noted as Least Concern in the “IUCN Red List of Threatened Species”. This types is not yet secured under “Peraturan Menteri Lingkungan Hidup dan Kehutanan Nomor.P.106/MENLHK/SETJEN/KUM.1/12/2018”. However, its population pattern is understood to be reducing.
Scarlet Minivet
Scientific name: Pericrocotus flammeus
Bahasa Indonesia: Sepah Hutan
Male Bird Characteristics:
- Bluish-black breast
- Red areas on its stubborn belly, under-tail concealed, and the external part of its tail plumes
Female Bird Characteristics:
- More grey on its back
- A yellow color spreads till its throat, chin, ear spot, and forehead
The Scarlet Minivet has actually intense colored plumes. It take advantage of bugs, consisting of caterpillars. Its little nests are constructed nicely in the shape of cups on tree branches above ground. The unique attribute of this bird is that incubation is performed just by female bird. This types spreads out throughout a number of locations- Java, Sumatra, Nusa Tenggara, Borneo, and Bali Island.
Conservation status:
Scarlet Minivet (Pericrocotus Flammeus) is noted as Least Concern in the “IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. This types is not yet secured under “Peraturan Menteri Lingkungan Hidup dan Kehutanan Nomor.P.106/MENLHK/SETJEN/KUM.1/12/2018”. However, its population pattern is understood to be reducing.
Buff-Rumped Woodpecker
Scientific name: Meiglyptes grammithorax
Bahasa Indonesia: Caladi Batu Melayu
Key qualities:
- It has a brief tail with black and white stripes
- Black body with thick white stripes other than its white upper-tail concealed
- Brownish-grey head, neck, and throat
- Black breast and under-tail concealed
- White stripes on its stubborn belly side and thighs
- A male bird has a dark red head with red areas on its malar location
- Its crown plumes appears like a crest
- Brownish-red color on its iris, black beak, and greenish feet
A reasonably little bird, this types is regularly discovered in main forests, secondary forests, and forest edges. It forages for food under the canopy and little branches. Its diet plan includes ants and other bugs. Its nest is constructed on tree branches or fallen tree stumps, and makes squeaking noises. This bird types can be discovered throughout some locations of Java, Sumatra, Borneo, and Bali Island.
Conservation status:
Buff-Rumped Woodpecker (Meiglyptes Grammithorax) is noted as Least Concern in the “IUCN Red List of Threatened Species”. This types is not yet secured under “Peraturan Menteri Lingkungan Hidup dan Kehutanan Nomor.P.106/MENLHK/SETJEN/KUM.1/12/2018”. However, its population pattern is understood to be reducing.
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