Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Summary
I usually do not know that there is a bird on Earth call Hornbills exist but now i know,what does it look like,what is their habitat,what they usually do and what are the main reason to cause them to be in exctintion.However,I personally do not like Hornbills that much and I do not even like birds too but somehow ,birds are very powerful and out of what we think about.Ground Hornbills are important in South African culture due to the fact that they can supposedly end droughts and this is why some of the people like Hornbills so much but they are endanger because sometime when their reflection had reflected on the window,they convinced that there is an intruder in his territory. He will go into attack mode and try to kill the intruder with his powerful bill and it can damage property when attacking their reflection in windows.Some of the Hornbill lives in a tropical paradise. Native to the Raja Ampat Islands and most of the time you will see there are those wild hornbills that croak and swoop just above the canopy of fringing coconut palms. The wild hornbills fly by the dive camp mornings and evenings.I think most of the people will enjoy watching all this creature's behavious and all these Hornbills can be counted as the part of the beautiful scenery right?T those people who loves Hornbills very much,seating on the soft sand beach and the sea just right opposite.With the chirpping sound the birds had make.What a enjoyable life it is could be!through this project and getting all the imformation of Hornbills and a lot of research had found.I realised that the earth is a mysterious place that need all of us to explore with because you will never know that there is such things alive in earth untill the days you found out it is exist.
About Hornbills
Hornbills are found in sub-Saharan Africa; from India and continuing east through south and Southeast Asia; onto the Indonesian and Philippine archipelagos including New Guinea; and east to the Solomon Islands.
Hornbills inhabit deserts, rainforests, steppes (treeless plain, often semiarid and grass-covered), woodlands, savannas (flat grasslands), and mountains, but prefer forested areas to other locales. Hornbills must be near large trees in order to nest and feed. Different species prefer various habitats, allowing many species to live in the same area.
Hornbills are both fruit and fresh eaters. They are far-ranging in their search for food and drop the seeds of the fruits they eat as they go, dispersing them over a wide area.They are thus important seed dispersers for the forest, acting as agents of forest regeneration, at the same time as controlling insects and other small animal populations. As such, they can be regarded as indicators of high moist forests, ensuring the continuance of forest health and species richness.
Many species of Thai hornbills are at present near extinction. It is therefore vital to understand the basic needs for their survival in order to protect and conserve them.
The aims to the conservation for Hornbills are to:
1.Continuce and expand further research intiatives into hornbills and related topics.
2.Disseminate information on forest and the wildlife within them to the public.
3. Develope interest in and encourage the study of natural ecosystems among scientists,
researchers, students and schoolchildren.
4.Set up a centre for the exchange of information and training in research into hornbills at
both national and international levels.
5.To work for the good of the public or co-operate with other nonprofit-making institutions
for public benefits.
6.Not to be involved with any political activity.
Reflection:
through out so many research on the topic of Hornbills,now i then know that how amazing this creatures are.They do not eat meats but only vegetable and they the place that they live in,not only forest but they also live in desert which the whether can be so hot.However,such places only refers to some of the Hornbills and not all of them stays the same. Hornbills are the only birds in which the first two the axis and atlas are fused together; and this may probably provides a more stable platform for carrying the bill.Also,the family is omnivorous, They are monogamous breeders nesting in natural cavities in trees and sometimes cliffs. A number of species of hornbill are threatened with extinction and i also know that mostly insular species with small ranges.
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Hornbill Conservation in Thailand
hornbills are the quintessence of all that is rare, vital and mysterious in tropical forests from Africa to Asia. Their life is interwoven with the woodland which they help to regenerate by spreading seeds. When forests are fragmented, the hornbills too are lost. Thailand has 13 of Asia’s 31 species of hornbill; one may be almost extinct, five are endangered, four are threatened and three vulnerable. A third of the forest in which hornbills dwell has fallen.
Each hornbill pair seeks out a suitable hollow – 15 to 40 metres above the ground in the trunk or branch of a Neobalanocarpus, Dipterocarpus or Syzygium tree – in which to raise a single chick. When a suitable cavity is found, the female walls herself in, using mud supplied by her mate and regurgitated food, to hatch and rear her chick. The male feeds them for the next three months and, if he fails, both mother and chick may perish. The birds consume up to 80 different kinds of fruit, scattering the seeds over many hectares of forest. With other seed-distributing animals such as monkeys now scarce, the hornbill has become pivotal in maintaining the integrity of the forest. But the birds rarely spread the seeds of the trees in which they nest: if these disappear, the hornbills too will vanish – and the trees and plants they help propagate will soon follow.However.The hornbill programme is taking place against a violent background: the threat of terrorism from agitators hiding in the villages and forest, and the government’s counter-action. A mobile learning centre and trained educators is spreading word of the project to other villages and communities in the south of Thailand, while ex-poachers teach current poachers that a safer future for them and their families lies in regeneration rather than destruction and extermination. And researchers continue to document key relationships in the rain forest between plants, birds and animals.
In conclusion,the great hornbill plays a vital role in the Budo Mountian o Thailand.
URL
http://www.wildlifeextra.com/go/news/thailand-hornbills783.html#cr
Each hornbill pair seeks out a suitable hollow – 15 to 40 metres above the ground in the trunk or branch of a Neobalanocarpus, Dipterocarpus or Syzygium tree – in which to raise a single chick. When a suitable cavity is found, the female walls herself in, using mud supplied by her mate and regurgitated food, to hatch and rear her chick. The male feeds them for the next three months and, if he fails, both mother and chick may perish. The birds consume up to 80 different kinds of fruit, scattering the seeds over many hectares of forest. With other seed-distributing animals such as monkeys now scarce, the hornbill has become pivotal in maintaining the integrity of the forest. But the birds rarely spread the seeds of the trees in which they nest: if these disappear, the hornbills too will vanish – and the trees and plants they help propagate will soon follow.However.The hornbill programme is taking place against a violent background: the threat of terrorism from agitators hiding in the villages and forest, and the government’s counter-action. A mobile learning centre and trained educators is spreading word of the project to other villages and communities in the south of Thailand, while ex-poachers teach current poachers that a safer future for them and their families lies in regeneration rather than destruction and extermination. And researchers continue to document key relationships in the rain forest between plants, birds and animals.
In conclusion,the great hornbill plays a vital role in the Budo Mountian o Thailand.
URL
http://www.wildlifeextra.com/go/news/thailand-hornbills783.html#cr
The conservation of hornbill in India
Hornbill is a large and endangered bird which in the humid hill forest in the Western Ghats of South India.The possible reason to cause the hornbill to be extinct are due to the large-scale habitat loss,forest fragmentation, and poaching of adults and squabs from nests by local tribal people are some of the proposed factors.Large-bodies are thought to be extinct in the face of deforestation because of the spatiotemporal patchiness of their fruit resources and due to the jeopardized to the survival of many arborcal Frugivores,the fruit resources used by vertebrate needed guidelines for protection urgently because fruit preferences of different frugivorous animal taxa diverge widely and information on fruiting schedules must gathered from the perspective of a focal consumer species or guide rather than that for the entire frugivores community.
I identifying these fruiting species may have important conservation implication for the entire food web and once the food web cannot manage to be balance,it will affects the bird who lives around them too which they need to depend on and carry on their life.The fruit in Southwestern of India was consumed by the GPH and monitored in the rain forest habitat.The conservation of forest integrity to maintain compositions and densities of the lipid-rich fruit tree species utilized by the hornbill.
URL
http://www.jstor.org/pss/2663970
I identifying these fruiting species may have important conservation implication for the entire food web and once the food web cannot manage to be balance,it will affects the bird who lives around them too which they need to depend on and carry on their life.The fruit in Southwestern of India was consumed by the GPH and monitored in the rain forest habitat.The conservation of forest integrity to maintain compositions and densities of the lipid-rich fruit tree species utilized by the hornbill.
URL
http://www.jstor.org/pss/2663970
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