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Indonesia Birds
Australians will feel at home in eastern Indonesia among the parrots, honeyeaters, white-eyes and monarchs, likewise, birders from Europe and Asia will find plenty of familiar families in western Indonesia’s pheasants, woodpeckers, pigeons, flycatchers and thrushes. But Americans will face the bewildering and exciting challenge of totally new species-something that awaits us all in Papua, which, though part of the Australasian realm, has a bird fauna all of its own.Taken from Jepson, P, 1997, Birding Indonesia, Periplus Editions. Singapore
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.
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.
Taken from Jepson, P, 1997, Birding Indonesia, Periplus Editions. Singapore
Birds of Indonesia
Introduction
Birds of Indonesia
Diversity at the crossroads of the Orient and Australasia
Taken from Jepson, P, 1997, Birding Indonesia, Periplus Editions. Singapore
Birds of Indonesia
Diversity at the crossroads of the Orient and Australasia
Indonesia holds 17% of the world’s bird species, so becoming familiar with them might seem more like a post-graduate study than a fun vacation. In reality it is not nearly as daunting as it might seem: the 1,539 species are the sum of more manageable numbers occurring in distinct regions, islands and habitats. Narrowing the field by knowing what to expect is the key to bird identification.
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