Wildlife in Your Back Garden – Resort in North Sulawesi
After being in the cities a lot in Indonesia, it was quite a shock to the system to find the happy chirps of bird song at the Resort I stayed near Manado.
When I was growing up in Jakarta, I never appreciated birds that much, you see them either in a cage as a prize possessions of some men, in the zoo or on my plate. Living in the UK, where a lot of people appreciate the wildlife in your garden, made me realise how important and wonderful they are. Which in turn makes me notice them more and how diverse these birds are.
I was very excited to see there were still a lot of wild birds at the resort, some of which I have never noticed before hence don’t know their existence let alone their name.
Here is the only one I knew at the time Egret , can you see it on the corner of the screen.
This one I am not sure about but it shapes reminds me of a Bali Myna, I checked that it is not a Myna. Or is it a BulBul – because of it’s tuft. I don’t know, do you?
I don’t know this scary ones. I thought they might be a crow. I looked in to it online, using the key word of ‘Asian Crow’ , found some links to say that they are Asian Koel, which is apparently in the cuckoo family, but then I found another one that said it is Asian Glossy Starling or Aplonis panayensis
I don’t know what this is, and I am not sure what key words I should use online. Then I found out after looking on the other birds that it is a Chestnut Munia or Lonchura atricapilla/ mallaca
This one, I saw it going into the flowers to what I assume to be eating the nectar, so I search it as ‘Asian Hummingbird’, looked in the image gallery to the most similar image and it turns out to be Olive Backed Sunbird or their latin name Cinnyris jugularis plateni. According to Wikipedia they do eat the nectar of flowers.
Well, that is me learning a lot about the Indonesian-back-garden-birds. At the moment in my back garden in the UK, because it is spring, lots of birds are flying around and mating, a pair is nesting in my bird box. How about you? do you pay attention to the wildlife surrounding you? Do you know any cool looking animal that is living in your back garden?.
Seeing the wildlife makes me feel better too, about the world and nature. We, humans, interfere so much to these animals life, that we forgot that they are living creature too. We don’t have a luxury to have a house with garden, but luckily, our house and apartment always close by to the city parks where the parks residents from the birds to rabbits are living in harmony 🙂 I have never get tired going to such parks..
Fingers crossed that Jakarta and major cities in Indonesia will go to that direction too.
Yes interfere and not value them as living creatures that actually does good to the ecosystem. 🙂 Parks are nice. In Surabaya at the moment they are doing up the city parks.
Waktu tinggal di Venezuela, sempet memulai hobby bird watching. Sampai tiap backpacking ke negara tetangga pun selalu nyempetin ikut tour bird watching. Hobby ini yg jadi ide nama Kedasih sebagai nama keduanya Medea. Kembali ke Jerman nerusin kebiasaan ini biar Medea bisa aware dengan lingkungannya. Sayangnya kali ini belum ada yg nesting nih di bird box kami.
Btw, makasih ya udah kasih tau secara ga langsung kalau di tulisanku “http://mindoel.blogspot.de/2016/04/mindoeltrip-lazise-one-beautiful-town.html” ada yang salah. Entah kenapa di otak terjemahin lake jadi sungai, bukannya danau. *self toyor*
Wah seru yah mba? Aku kebayang kalau di Venezuela pasti burungnya keren2 dan bermacam2 warna. Oh iya yah, Kedasih tuh bagus namanya. Biasanya burung apa di Bird boxnya. Waah mba, aku belum pernah ke Lake Garda, so I wasn’t sure. Aku malah liat itu kayak sungai panjang, so I was just going to take your word for it. 🙂 good to know. Terima kasih kembali…
Aku sampai sekarang masih tercengang kalau lihat gerombolan burung pulang ke sarang nya kalau sore2 gitu, suaranya merdu banget ya, bener deh di Indonesia keknya gak pernah meratiin hal kecil indah kek gini 😦
Maklum mungkin karena kita anak Jakarta kali yah Feb? Kayaknya kalau tinggal didaerah gak bisa luput dari burung2 ini.
banyak juga kka koleksi burungnya kka itu semua gk sengaja ya kak terkumpul?
Ini gak dikoleksi sih waktu santai2 deket kolam renang ini disekitar ku.
just like you, i didn’t care much for wild birds when i lived in Jakarta… and i still can’t stand their chirps and singing in the morning here, LOL. though i do enjoy them when i’m taking a stroll around the neighbourhood.
i think the wildlife here in south Finland is pretty much the same as where you live now, our backyard wildlife consists of rabbits, city bunnies, squirrels, ducks, hedgehogs. once i have succeeded in spotting a weasel with white fur in the winter, and of course there’s that deer i saw at our summer place. and then there are birds, whose names i can never tell. living here certainly made me become more aware of these wildlife animals. 🙂
did you encounter any snakes/other scary animals/insects there in Manado too?
HAHAHA! I can’t really hear the chirps in the morning here inside the house. Scary animals? No, not really.
no, i can’t hear them either from inside the house if the windows are closed… but as it gets too hot in the summer, sometimes we need to sleep with the windows open. and that’s when the birds’ chirping annoy me! 😀
It is Sooty-headed Bulbul Pycnonotus aurigaster 🙂
Wow! Thanks! It is a Bul Bul?
yep it is a bulbul