#Java Green Magpie

[stickynotebirds]

208. Java Green Magpie

[frogofalltime]

@luneyjuney asked me for my top 100 birds and i am extremely autistic so. here yall go

feral pigeon (if you even slightly know me you will be aware of this. i have a whole army of pigeon friends in my city and they are my favourite birds of all time)

wandering albatross (widest wingspan of all extant birds, fly incredibly long distances, hella cool)

sparrowhawk (so cool and also the name of the main character in earthsea)

african penguin (i became obsessed with them as a kid because i didn't know penguins could live in warm places)

great crested grebe (hella cool, also i saw one in real life a few weeks ago !!)

woodpigeon (they are always cooing outside my grandparents' house and it feels like home when i hear them)

bee hummingbird (tiny. adorable. the world's smallest bird)

nightjar (weird big mouths, i love them)

carrion crow (extremely smart and very emo)

magpie (they steal stuff they find on the floor, just like me fr)

mourning dove (name a better sound than the mourning dove's song, i'll wait)

green pigeon (my favourite colour and my favourite bird, what else do you want)

fairy wren (so small !! so cute !!)

tailorbird (they sew leaves together to make their nests, honestly the coolest thing ever)

turtle dove (pretty pretty pretty)

speckled pigeon (SO PRETTY AND I LOVE THEM)

little penguin (they look like babies !!!!)

barn owl (their faces are so lovely. i want to look like a barn owl in my next life)

spotted woodpecker (i saw one last summer !! i like the noise they make)

cockatiel (pikachu looking cheeks)

blue tit (they're so pretty and cute and i like their song !)

european robin (friendly little guys with pretty red bellies, and the loveliest song you've ever heard)

eurasian wren (small and round and the way they hop makes me smile)

collared dove (another beautiful pigeon-related bird)

kiwi (they have a special place in my heart thanks to a really sad video i watched in eight grade)

pekin duck (big and white with orange beaks and feet, very iconic)

gouldian finch (so pretty and i wanted to change my name to finch when i was younger)

emerald dove (green wings !!! and pigeon-adjacent !!!)

little grebe (just a baby. i have seen them a few times and they are so sweet)

mistle thrush (they're so beautiful !! i see them regularly in local parks)

wagtail (i like watching them perch around the river wagging their tails)

chaffinch (another lovely finch species !)

elf owl (world's smallest owl !!!)

bleeding heart dove (tragic in a beautiful way)

crowned pigeon (so beautiful, imagine a pigeon wearing the most splendid crown you've ever seen)

rosy-faced lovebird (couple goals fr)

coot (i like their funny webbed feet)

diamond dove (pretty !!!!)

orpington chicken (fluffy and big and make me feel cosy)

little owl (another tiny guy !!)

cockatoo (i made friends with one as a kid, she was so cool)

silkie chicken (so soft and beautiful)

hoopoe (i refuse to believe this is not a pokémon)

raven (big, black, smart, awesome)

mexican violetear (they're so pretty aaaa what shiny colourful feathers !)

great egret (majestic)

java sparrow (we studied them last year, it's funny how they are extinct in their native habitat but are thriving in their new temple homes)

mallard duck (the most common ducks that you see everywhere, i love them)

bowerbird (becky lemme smash)

house sparrow (cute little guys that live in the garden, we call them The Gang)

puffin (i like their beaks)

kakapo (big green potato bird)

potoo (they're so weird !! i love them !!)

grey heron (every time i see one it feels like a good omen)

red-crowned crane (the iconic japanese crane that i like to make origami of)

swallows (cool forked tails)

ringneck parakeet (they're so awesome !)

long tailed widowbird (longest tail you've ever seen, actually pretty ridiculous)

pochard (adorable little duck species)

peafowl (of course, i mean look at them)

mandarin duck (their plumage is so ornate !!! i see them in the park a lot !!!)

european starling (they're so common but so cool ! there's a family of them that live outside my window and i like to greet them every time i go outside)

fairy penguin (tiny tiny tiny)

bittern (pretty rare and make a great noise)

blue bird of paradise (exactly what it sounds like)

peregrine falcon (honestly these should be higher on the list they're awesome)

ruff (they have really interesting sexual dynamics, some of the males look exactly like females while others look starkly different, look them up)

oilbird (there's a picture of them with their mouths wide open in one of my bird books and it made me fall in love)

chiffchaff (they make such a cool noise, hence the name)

kingfisher (i think i saw one once as a kid, truly fantastic creatures)

red kite (i see them flying overhead sometimes, very cool birds of prey)

eastern bluebird (so pretty ! i wish we had them in the uk)

amazon parrot (hella intelligent and awesome)

frogmouth (i like frogs, and they look so goofy)

white emu (i saw one last summer, very cool)

grey parrot (apollo good bird !)

european blackbird (very common here, with a very memorable song. there's one outside my window that stays awake at night and sings to me when i get home late)

skylark (allouette gentil allouette)

blue jay (another cool species i wish we had in the uk)

waxwing (very pretty !)

mockingbird (they're so smart, they can mimic noises really well)

white hawk (the coolest hawk species in my opinion)

spoonbill (their beaks look like spoons)

nightingale (sang in berkeley square)

snow goose (the same reason i like pekin ducks; they just look so perfect, like yea that's a Goose alright)

chinstrap penguin (gay !!!!!!! look up roy and silo, you won't regret it)

cormorant (i like the way they display their wings, so magnificent)

house martin (they have a symbiotic relationship with humans, very cool)

sandpiper (i like the way they run)

tufted duck (cute little tuft on their heads)

fairy pitta (oh they are gorgeous)

great tit (they have regional accents, but they all have a two-note song which is very recognisable, there was one that sang nonstop in my parents' garden one year and we became quite fond of him)

shoebill (people say they're terrifying, but i think they're really cool, despite the creepiness)

blue footed booby (silly little guys that do a goofy tap dance with their bright blue feet)

red-billed scythebill (long ass curved beak)

ostrich (of course they had to be on the list somewhere, enormous speedy bois)

painted bunting (colourful and spectacular)

cactus wren (they make holes in cactus stems to live inside and keep cool ! very smart !)

harrier hawk (rather amazing bird of prey)

common swift (they're so fast, and i love watching them fly in the spring and summer)

[shylightqueen]

The Javan green magpie is a passerine bird in the crow family, Corvidae. This critically endangered species is endemic to montane forests on the Indonesian island of Java. It formerly included the Bornean green magpie as a subspecies, in which case the "combined" species was known as the short-tailed magpie.

[testormblog]

Money with Wings

One day, I found a live baby parrot on the ground, fallen from its nest.  I thought it could be my pet so carefully carried it home and showed it to my father.  Dad smiled sadly at me.  He liked the little bird too.  He said, ‘Jakob, put it in an old cage in the shed.  However, it probably won’t survive.’  He was right.  I brought a few more young parrots home.  We fed them bread and honey.  Unfortunately, they didn’t survive either.  The next one, I fed grain.  It lived and thrived.

I decided to catch more birds.  What a challenge!  They were smart and escaped me quickly.  I talked to Pop about this and he built me a single door treadle trap.  Inside it, I placed a tub of grain to attract my quarry.  Once the bird was inside, its weight closed the door.  The trap worked well and I caught some birds.  Dad then suggested we construct an aviary.

At that year’s Beenleigh Show, I loitered around the bird exhibits and discovered that people bought birds.  I had a keen eye for money making ventures.  Some rare birds were selling for ten shillings each.  I knew where these nested in the bush and could catch three or four of them a day.  Forty shillings beat the miserly two shillings an hour Mattie Jones paid me.

I expanded the aviary then built another and constructed more traps.  My hobby became a small business.  I held up to one hundred birds in stock.  I began to breed, both from birds I caught and purchased.  I bought a state show champion and bred beautiful opaline budgerigars.  My aviaries housed budgerigars of every colour, a variety of parrots, including some pretty peach face lovebirds, and java finches.  My birds won show prizes every year.  This gained me free advertising and clients.  Everybody wanted a pet bird yet suppliers were few.

Still, my enterprise wasn’t an easy lark.  My aviaries had to be registered with a government department.  I had regulations to learn.  These included which species I could legally trap and breed.  An inspector could arrive anytime unannounced.  Sometimes, a pretty bird flew my way and I had no idea whether I should make it mine.  Nevertheless, my pet shop clients never asked if the birds were trapped or bred.  I looked after my birds well and only kept the healthy ones.  I helped the local farmers in return for bird feed, otherwise difficult and expensive to obtain.  They let me harvest cobs of corn as well as stalks of milo to thrash for seed.  I nicked off from school at lunch to check my traps and transfer any quarry in with my call birds.  With Reggie, I delivered orders as far as Brisbane.  Reggie really liked driving his car if I covered his fuel.  The pet shops always accepted whatever I offered.  After expenses, each delivery earnt me a hundred shillings plus, over five pounds.  Good pocket money!

I quickly learnt which birds attracted what prices.  Generally, their prices reflected their availability for sale, their physical appearance and condition as well as their dietary requirements.  Scaly green parrots were plentiful and difficult to feed.  They fetched a shilling each.  Rainbow lorikeets were rare at that time as well as beautifully coloured.  They were worth twenty scaly greens.  A pair of pale headed rosellas brought four shillings.  Most finches sold at ten shillings per dozen except for a single gouldian.  This small purple and gold breasted, green winged, red faced bird netted twenty shillings.  Nobody wanted pigeons, miners or magpies however.  If a cockatiel flew my way, that was a lucky day.  The same applied to a galah.  Back then, the galahs lived out west and strays were difficult to trap.  Both these species were talking birds.  This made my price negotiable.

The biggest threat to my business were Mother’s two cats, Peter and Jimmy.  She loved them and they her but nobody else.  Dad and I avoided them.  They sank their claws into anything living and efficiently killed whatever wasn’t human, including native fauna.  Mother claimed they were good ratters.  Well, these cats bore a grudge towards me.  When I was little and they much smaller, I decided Peter’s bluey grey colour should be green thus painted him so with housepaint.  These murderers longed to avenge my misdeed and sought to slaughter my beloved birds.  They often prowled around my aviaries hoping for an open door before they buggered off to the chook house.  One day, they took their frustration out on a poor hen.  Dad then exacted his on them!

The illegal export game was a risk too.  I unwittingly became caught in it.  A Mr Bright enquired about birds for sale.  He had seen my aviaries whilst driving by.  I was suspicious of him.  He admired my best birds kept in the large open aviary.  Many of these were my call birds and weren’t for sale.  They called their wild cousins into traps for me.  He offered me prices I couldn’t refuse.  Thus, I sold some.  He ordered others and returned for them.

Mr Bright asked about a specific bird not available in the pet shops.  I knew this bird lived near the creek.  He offered me twenty shillings each, a pound, and placed a £25 order.  Big money!  I found a couple nests then watched the chicks hatch and grow.  I stole them when they had their feathers and were ready to fly.  I caught fish daily to feed them and waited for Mr Bright to return.  He didn’t!  I pondered what to do with these birds; release them or sell them to another client.  I figured they were valuable given Bright’s offer of a man’s weekly wage.

Late on a Saturday afternoon, Reggie drove me to a client’s house.  I regularly delivered birds there, showing up without prior notice, as was the case this time.  Dad came too.  He suspected something wasn’t right.  This client, nicknamed Happy Dog, sold top notch birds at his pet shop in the City.  Dad and I knocked on his front door for some minutes.  We heard grunting noises from inside.  An unhappy Happy appeared in his boxers.  He saw the cage of birds and beckoned us into the light of the enclosed veranda.  On this veranda was a bed on which sat a different type of bird wrapped in a sheet, likely the sort who did tricks.  She was displeased that her transaction was interrupted.  I was naïve to her kind of business and only hoped to offload the birds for my small fortune.

My hope evaporated.  Happy said these birds were illegal to keep.  The woman yelled at both him and I in coarse language.  She demanded I leave with the birds and he come back to bed.  He moved me away from her earshot and asked me the price.  I told him Bright’s offer.  The enormous amount seemed a joke.  He laughed, then replied he’d pay twenty-five shillings tops, a tenth of the price.  I reluctantly handed over the birds and resolved to stick to my usual species.  I continued to supply Happy.  He was a major client.

I saved my profits. My birds laid me quite a nest egg to feather my future.  When my adult life began, my business flew the coup.

[featheredfreinds]

Inside the Illegal Songbird Trade in Indonesia | Seeker | Wild Crime

There are few birds more colorful or with a more beautiful song than the Javan green magpie. Unfortunately, this beauty has led the birds to be captured and sold illegally into the songbird trade in Indonesia for singing competitions or as pets. Conservationists from the Chester Zoo went undercover to document the scope of the issues and ultimately staged a rescue. Today, these birds are bred at the zoo for release in the wild to boost their at-risk populations. » Subscribe to Seeker! http://bit.ly/subscribeseeker » Visit our shop at http://shop.seeker.com The ones in Jakarta, particularly the one called Pramuka bird market, which is actually the biggest wildlife market on the planet, is a really depressing place to visit actually as someone who's a bird lover.

The songbird black market is immense. It's across every border. It's across the globe.

Unless we can control and stop the illegal wildlife trade with these songbirds, the inevitable result is going to be the extinction of multiple species across Southeast Asia.... These forests really are falling silent.

#birds#aviation#illegalwildlife trade #wildlife#wildcrime#seeker#nature#conservation

Read More:

Sing For Songbirds | Chester Zoo “All over Indonesia the forests are falling silent because the songbirds that once lived there are threatened by extinction. We’re facing a crisis because these beautiful, remarkable and rare birds are being captured and trapped by local people to be used either in singing competitions or kept in cages as a status symbol.” https://www.chesterzoo.org/news/sing-...

Songbirds are disappearing from the wild – here's why “There are more songbirds in captivity than in the wild on the Indonesian island of Java, research by Manchester Metropolitan University and Chester Zoo has found. One-third of the island’s population keep birds as ornamental pets or, in the songbird’s case, as contestants in birdsong competitions for cash prizes.” https://geographical.co.uk/nature/wil...

Indonesian songbird crisis “The trade in songbirds is estimated to be worth tens of millions of dollars to the Indonesian economy, so it is no surprise that it is a key regional source of both supply and demand for songbirds, with hundreds of markets running across the archipelago, selling more than 200 different species – the majority of which are native to Indonesia.” https://theecologist.org/2019/oct/02/... ____________________

Across the globe, elephants are poached for their tusks, pangolins for their scales, and totoaba fish for their bladders. Tackling the fourth largest crime industry in the world isn’t easy, but biologists, roboticists, detectives and even NASA scientists are getting creative in the hopes of making a difference. In this Seeker series, we’ll investigate true stories of wildlife crime and meet the people who are working to protect the world’s most endangered and persecuted animals.

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[rupertbbare]

Javan Green Magpie

[dragonfelling]

Javan Green Magpies! They are Critically Endangered, with less then 100 of these birds left in the wild which is the result of habitat loss and illegal capture for the wild animal trade. They are endemic to forests on the Indonesian island of Java.

[kiwistickers]

Kitty Crossing

RainbowClan RP characters as Animal Crossing Villagers: Extra/misc characters! These are cats outside of clans, kittypets, loners, and ghosts!

Everything drawn by me except the amiibo cards- Amiibo Card blank template here: https://animalcrossingqrdesigns.tumblr.com/post/180286998342/amiibo-card-background

Wolfsharp and Magpie belong to Fizzy, who is also the original host of the RP!

Cloveheart, Heather, and Pine belong to Spice!

Kizmet, Lucky, and Buttonaw belong to me!

Lillacgaze belongs to Java!

I wasn't sure what colors to pick for each group so I messed around with a color and value inverted colors a lot lol.

Kittypets - Pink/fuschia

Loners - Value invert (white/green)

Exiled cats - Dark red; Dice is tinted red as well.

StarClan - (Deep purple/blue)

Cloveheart and Lillacgaze also have alive versions to match the previous sets themes. (Clove's has white dice for RainbowClan, Lillac's has black dice for DarkClan)

Name: Lucky

Gender: Male

Personality: Normal

Catchphrase: 'gears'

Star Sign: Libra

Clothes: Lightning shirt

Name: Magpie

Gender: Nonbinary

Personality: ???

Star Sign: Libra

Catchphrase: 'trinket'

Clothes: Mint gingham

Name: Wolfsharp

Gender: Male

Personality: Smug/Jock

Catchphrase: 'splatter'

Clothes: Custom (based on  a paintball team uniform!)

Name: Kizmet

Gender: Male

Personality: Cranky/Smug

Catchphrase: 'rotten'

Clothes: Moldy shirt

Name: Lillacgaze

Gender: Female

Personality: Big sister?

Catchphrase: 'wilt'

Clothes: Custom (based on lillac flowers)

Name: Buttonpaw

Gender: Male

Personality: Peppy

Catchphrase: 'jingle'

Clothes: Aurora shirt

Name: Heather

Gender: Female

Personality: Normal?

Catchphrase: 'fresh'

Clothes: Custom (based on Heathers musical)

Name: Pine

Gender: Male

Personality: Smug? He lowkey reminds me of all the male villager types though so idk!

Catchphrase: 'rustle'

Clothes: Custom (Na na na na na Dadman!!!)

Name: Graynose

Gender: Female

Personality: Big sister?

Catchphrase: 'culpurrit'

Clothes: Arctic camo (altered to have pockets)

Name: Cloveheart

Gender: Female

Personality: Big sister?

Catchphrase: 'redo'

Clothes: Jungle camo

[nunoxaviermoreira]

Javan Green Magpie (Cissa thalassina) by Seventh Heaven Photography The Javan green magpie is a passerine bird in the crow family, Corvidae. This critically endangered species is endemic to montane forests on the Indonesian island of Java. https://flic.kr/p/2gv3gxy

[beaglerlove]

Adding onto this, the situation with the Javan Green Magpie (Cissa thalassina) is a part of the Indonesian songbird crisis. In fact, this was the flagship species of the EAZA Silent Forest campaign, a conservation campaign focused on songbirds of Southeast Asia, specifically the illegal trapping and trading of these birds for singing/songbird competitions, pets, export, traditional medicine, food, and so on. In Indonesia, the high demand for songbirds, combined with the widespread illegal and unsustainable wildlife trade (and trapping), has caused dramatic population declines among various species. Indonesia currently has the second highest number of threatened avian species in the world (highest in Asia), right behind Brazil, and the trade largely contributes to this (alongside habitat destruction).

Here’s an article on the trade.

I highly recommend checking out and supporting the following organizations, which work to tackle habitat destruction and illegal wildlife trade, rescue individuals from the trade (some of which are sadly nonreleasable because of health conditions, imprinting/human habituation, etc.), and do other conservation work (captive breeding and reintroduction programs, habitat recovery, etc.):

1. The Rainforest Trust

2. The Indonesian Forum for (Living) Environment (Wahana Lingkungan Hidup Indonesia) [Extra Info]

3. WCS Indonesia Program

4. BirdLife International’s Forests of Hope Program

5. Burung Indonesia (BirdLife International’s info on the group)

6. BirdLife International Asia

7. IUCN SSC Asian Songbird Trade Specialist Group (ASTSG)

8. Wildlife Asia

9. Wildlife Reserves Singapore (Tackling Wildlife Trade and Songbird Crisis Summit)

10. Ecosystem Impact (Songbird Conservation)

11. Zoological Society for the Conservation of Species and Populations (Die Zoologische Gesellschaft für Arten- und Populationsschutz e.V. [ZGAP])

12. Cikananga Wildlife Center

13. Prigen Conservation Breeding Ark (PCBA)

14. Begawan Foundation

15. Jurong Bird Park

16. Chester Zoo (Sing for Songbirds campaign)

17. Prague Zoo

18. Durell Wildlife Conservation Trust

As for the Javan Green Magpie, a captive breeding program based on confiscated individuals (those rescued from the illegal trade) has been initiated by Cikananga Wildlife Center in Java, PCBA, and a few European EAZA zoos (Prague, Chester, Jersey, and Newquay). The captive population currently numbers around 50 individuals.

Finally, here’s a PDF of the EAZA Best Practice Guidelines for the Javan Green Magpie, which includes more in-depth information on this species and its conservation.

the javan green magpie is a critically endangered corvid species endemic to the island of java. their green coloration is primarily from the insects in their diet; with improper diet, they become a bluish color. the species is possibly already extinct in the wild, due both to illegal capture for the pet trade and habitat loss.

[keyconservation]

Extremely exciting and inspiring news coming out of Durrell’s Jersey Zoo! For the first time they have successfully bred a critically endangered Javan green magpie chick! With only around 100 left in the wild this is a huge step forward for the species. | Repost @durrell_jerseyzoo | We're delighted to announce that the Bird Department at Jersey Zoo (Durrell HQ) has successfully bred their first Javan green magpie chick and we would like our supporters to help us name him! The keepers have chosen several potential names, but it's now up to you to decide... 1. Salamat – a national park in Java where Javan green magpies are found 2. Musim – 'monsoon' in Javanese 3. Hijau – an Indonesian adjective, which describes the colour ‘emerald green’ 4. Gilang – Malay for ‘bright, glittering, splendid’ 5. Eko – ‘first’ in Javanese 6. Satu – Indonesian for ‘one’, with the hope that there will be ‘two’, ‘three’ etc in the future! 7. Indra – god of seas and skies Vote for your favourite name by leaving a comment below. The Javan green magpie is Critically Endangered, with a wild population of around 100 individuals. Read more >>>LINK IN BIO<<< #javangreenmagpie #magpie #criticallyendangered #bird #java #Indonesia #songbird #songbirdtrade #silentforest #silentforestcampaign #captivebreeding #zoo #jerseyzoo #durrell #durrellteam #durrellwildlife #conservation #SavingSpecies #extinction #endextinction #wildlifeconservation #conservationoptimism #KeyConservation

[cutecrzy]

Songbirds like the Javan green magpie are becoming highly endangered in their home of Java because of how much people enjoy their song. Songbird competitions are very popular in Indonesia, and forests are stripped of birds for these competitions. via /r/Awwducational http://ift.tt/2yXdQNH: http://ift.tt/2hRv7gi

[allthedamnbirds]

The Javan Green Magpie now only exists in four protected areas in Java, 3 of which are national parks. Despite the area’s protected status, they are still under threat of illegal trapping. They are critically endangered, with estimated total of less 100 left. Surveys conducted in west Java at the bird markets are seeing fewer for sale each year, suggesting that their total population might even be less than 50. tbc…