Monday, March 28, 2011

fredbreeding.com

fredbreeding.com


Murai Batu

Posted: 28 Mar 2011 02:48 AM PDT

2murai batu02 Murai Batu

Murai Batu (Copsychus malabaricus) is the most popular of birds chirping. Belonging to the family Turdidae. Scattered throughout the island of Sumatra, Peninsular Malaysia, and parts of Java island.

This type is best considered Murai Batu Medan. It’s just excessive forest exploitation and hunting for commercial purposes to make this kind of difficult to find in the market.

1murai batu01 Murai Batu

Morphological characteristics

Having a body is almost entirely black, except the bottom of the bright red to dull orange. There are slightly blue tinge in the head. Long tail enforced in a state of shock, or Twitter.

Murai stone from Tanjung Redep, East Kalimantan, should be entitled uniqueness in the head which extends to the back and white stripes. Murai Kalimantan has a shorter tail with a length of about 8-12 cm, while Murai Batu Sumatra 15-20 cm. Another distinctive feature is Murai Batu Borneo when dealing with species would inflate the feathers around her chest while singing.

3murai batu03 Murai Batu

Another distinctive feature is Murai Batu Borneo when dealing with species would inflate the feathers around her chest while singing.

Body size of 14-17 cm.

Feed

General Foods is a small insect. Hobbyists usually provide a combination of pellets, Kroto, crickets, caterpillars and eggs hongkong bees. Murai Batu also eat poer / voer sold in bird shops.

Seksing

Males distinguished from females of the chirp is more active and longer tails. Males can not tolerate any other male in the vicinity of its territory. While difficult to accept male female unknown. Usually done by mating the breeding pair from one parent (incest).

But today many birds chirping Pengemar in Java have started successfully menangkar Murai Batu hybrid between species of Sumatra (Medan) to the type of Kalimantan (Borneo)

4murai batu04 Murai Batu

No comments:

Post a Comment

Note: Only a member of this blog may post a comment.