Exotic Blue of Bali Starling
Bali Starling was exotic birds that really admired by birds lover. The tip of the tail and the wings Balinese Starling this was black and in his cheek part to the colored eyes blue clear, a glance apparently like the person that parade by using the paint to his face. The colored part blue clear was not overgrown the hair and birds foots were grayish, this increased the uniqueness from other birds. Male birds and female had the same characteristics. These birds could be only found in the west part of the Balinese forest. The person that the first time described Balinese Starling this was Walter Rothschild he is English citizen during 1912 introduced Balinese Starling in the world of science. The name of his now is used for the Latin name of these birds that is (Leucopsar rothschildi)
The fauna of the symbol of the Balinese Province was one of the birds was rarest in the world, and represented the single genus from the kind myna that lived endemic in the Balinese Island in the western part. In the history of the spreading, Balinese Starling birds spread the area at the west of the Balinese Island including in the national park region, the dry savannah forest, and the undergrowth forest (monsoon) in the national park and the garden forest in rural areas. However with the expansion and the plantation of the settlement territory, from each year the Balinese Starling population's being fragmented, and became small populations, that were increasingly decreased.
In its original habitat, the hunting of Balinese Starling very serious problems as its population estimated decreasing. Moreover, environmental damage that still happening in the National Park Balinese Barat took part in hindering the growth of this bird’s population. It is not surprising when the newest survey that will be carried out early 2005 only found five tails Balinese Starling in the wild.
Balinese Starling breeding seasons usually takes place on October-November; they made the nest in trees, less than 175 cm high. They like the undergrowth and palm trees in the open wild, which bordered into dense forest zone.
Moreover, in the past sometimes Balinese Starling made the nest in the coconut plantation, close to the settlement of the inhabitants. Its pleasure lived in the open place also made them easy to find and be captured in the wild.
At this time was based on the census in 2001, the number of Balinese Starling birds in the wild and not more than 6 birds. With the number of populations like that, globally Balinese Starling has been extinct in the wild. For the 10 years period, the population continued to decrease very fast. We should thank to local Indonesian breeder that could breed this bird and save it from extinction. Not surprised if at this time, we couldn’t seen Balinese Starling that flew gathered. Only was found by one or two birds that flew, otherwise it was difficult to had visual appearance of Balinese Starling birds.
Moreover, several years in recent time’s theft efforts have increased and have been accompanied by the Balinese Starling population's robbery in the breeding center area. The biggest robbery was happened during 1999 where totaling 39 Balinese Starling bird succeeded in being plundered from the breeding center of the National Park West Bali.
Bali Starling protected by regulations because of its status already critical, and entered in appendix I CITES.
http://kopipakegula.blogspot.com/2006/04/jalak-bali-riwayatmu-kini.html
http://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jalak_Bali
http://www2.kompas.com/kompas-cetak/0509/10/Lingkungan/2036517.htm
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