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Amy T's List: Endangered Animals
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Sep 18, 09
the whiskered pitta has a "brown fore-crown, rusty-orange rear crown and nape. Dark olive-brown ear coverts bordered below by broad pinkish malar stripe and darker sub-malar area. Blue breast, rest of underparts scarlet. Dull olive-green upperparts except for blue rump and wing patch. Long, greyish blue legs. Stout, dark bill. Juvenile is brown, spotted paler on breast. Shows paler malar area."* Its call is a series of 5-9 'woo' notes which go faster and get lower and sounds similar to a pigeon call and is best located by this territorial call."It appears to prefer closed-canopy, primary montane, oak dominated forest, frequently on steep slopes. Its movements are poorly understood. Birds caught at the migration bottleneck at Dalton Pass in January and February and records from south Luzon (which may refer to wintering individuals) suggest that there is some intra-island migration. "* The main threat to this species is thus: habitat loss, kept as pets locally with hunting snares, humans.
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Family/Sub-family Pittidae
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Sep 18, 09
More info on japanese crested ibis.
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Advocacy for Animals
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Whiskered Pitta
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Sep 18, 09
This is a tidbit of information on the endangered japanese crested ibis.
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Sep 18, 09
This is an informative site listing and telling about endangered species.
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Sep 17, 09
This is a website to use for fining out more about endangered birds.
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Sep 23, 09
This explains why birds are important to Earth and it people.
*"Birds have been integral to humans since prehistory."
Their eggs and the bird itself have been important sources of food since the beginning of the homo sapien evolution. Therefore, we humans have hunted a myriad of species to extinction.
Birds' feathers have been used as accessories and in humans' clothing and are usually obtained by killing the bird.
Birds have been kept as pets for longer than you could imagine and the pet trade have caused the extinction of many bird species.
*Endangered Species International-
After the extinction of the dodo, it was discovered that a tree whose fruits had been a primary food item of the dodo was unable to reproduce without its seeds passing through the dodos’ digestive tracts, which process scarified the seed coat and enabled germination.
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Birds have been integral to humans since prehistory. To birds’ detriment, they and their eggs have been an important human food source since humans evolved, and we have hunted many species to extinction. Feathers, usually obtained by killing their original owners, have been used as adornment in hats, headdresses, and capes. Birds are popular as “pets” throughout the world, and the pet trade has driven many species to the edge of extinction.
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Sep 23, 09
Whiskered Pitta (Pitta Kochi)
Whiskered Pittas in Asia's National Park,
-Amy
This is a website that seems to sell or endorse the Wildlife parks in the Phillippines, not meaning it is useless. It is a secondary website--not in first person point of view. It seems legit, but is one of the more sketchy websites.
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Whiskered Pitta
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Whiskered Pitta
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Sep 23, 09
This website contains information the whiskered pitta. It seems to be legitimate, but a very basic setup--very businessllike. It is a primary source.
-Amy
The whiskered pitta is found mainly in evergreen forests and oak tree forests where there is dense undergrowth and ravines.
Whiskered pittas are elusive, despite their flamboyant plumage: they look alike to the Red Bellied Pitta, although the Whiskered Pitta is larger and doesn't have the blue colar and blue lower mantle/rump and has dark ear coverings with a whisker, giving it the name--whiskered pitta.
They are best located by their "loud and distinctive territorial call"* which sounds a little familiar to a pigeon.
Whiskered pittas are more so land dwelling birds and usually don't leave the forest floor except to call, even then it only venture 1-2 meters off the forest floor.
Whiskered pittas are listed as vulnerable, but recent records say that the whiskered pitta has a healthy population in the "remaining montane forest in Luzon"* because it adapts so well to the degrading forests.
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Sep 24, 09
The whiskered pitta is tied to Luzon, a region in the Philippines.
Whiskered pittas (or pitta kochi) live in the mountains of Cordillera Cenrtral, Sierra Madre, and Bicol areas.
It is a bird that lives on insects and prefers to live in areas with dense plant-floors and is thought to be a migrating species.
The whiskered pitta is threatened by habitat loss and hunting (mainly by locals).
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These are hyperlinks to sites that describe and inform about endangered animals, particularly endangered birds.
Updated on Sep 24, 09
Created on Sep 22, 09
Category: Schools & Education
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