Red Bird-of-Paradise

Scientific Classification

 

• Kingdom : Animalia
• Phylum   : Chordata
• Class       : Aves
• Ordo       : Passeriformes
• Family    : Paradisaeidae
• Genus     : Paradisaea
• Species   : P. Rubra
• Binomial name : Paradisaea rubra

Description

Female Red Bird-of-Paradise

Male Red Bird-of-Paradise

  

Sexually dimorphic. The adult male has dark orange-yellow head, erectile horn-like structure above each eye, dark green chin, striking deep crimson flank plumes and curled, black central pair of tail ''tapes'. The adult female has a forehead and throat dark brown and broad yellow bar on upper breast.

  Size :

Male length (excluding tail wires) : 33 cm

Female length                                 : 30 cm

Male weight                                   : 158 - 224 gram

Female weight                                : 115 - 208 gram

Diet

The diet consists mainly of fruits, berries, and arthropods.

Habitat

Lowland rainforests and hill forests : 0 - 600 meters.

Courtship

Polygynous. Displays occur at least Jully - September. Males display on traditional perches in leks. They converge on each other and display in static postures and dance moves fanning and advertising wings, flank plumes, and tail tapes.

Breeding / Nesting

 

As with other sexually dimorphic birds of paradise, the male Red Bird of Paradise is polygamous. It also has one of the most complex courtship display of the whole family. On high-intensity display, he performs a butterfly dance, spreading and fluttering his wings like a giant butterfly. In captivity, female builds and attends nest alone. Incubation 14-17 days, nestling period 15-20 days.

Status and Conservation

Due to ongoing habitat lost and exploitation, the Red Bird of Paradise is evaluated as Near Threatened on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. It is listed on Appendix II of CITES.

Near Threatened (IUCN)

Distribution

An Indonesia endemic, the Red Bird-of-Paradise is distributed to lowland rainforests of Waigeo and Batanta islands of West Papua. This species shares it's home with another bird of paradise, Wilson's Bird of Paradise. Hybridisation between these two species is not recorded but is expected because it is recorded for many other birds of paradise.

In Popular Culture

The red bird-of-paradise is depicted on the front side of 19992 edition of Indonesia 20000 Rupiah banknote.

Red Bird-of-Paradise featured in 20.000 rupiah banknote

source: red bird-of-paradise and Wikipedia

WHAT'S THE STORY ABOUT?

A blind boy sat on the steps of a building with a hat by his feet. He held up a sign which said : 

"I am blind, please help."

There were only a few coins in the hat.

A man was walking by. He took a few coins from his pocket and dropped them into the hat. He then took the sign, turned it around, and wrote some words. He put the sign back so that everyone who walked by would see the new words.

Soon the hat began to fill up. A lot more people were giving money to the blind boy. That afternoon the man who had changed the sign came to see how things were.

The boy recognized his footsteps and asked, "Were you the one who changed my sign this morning? What did you write?"

The man said, "I only wrote the truth. I said what you said but in a different way."

What he had written was : "Today is a beautiful day and I cannot see it."

Questions:

1. What is the text about?
   a. A blind boy
   b. A kind blind boy
   c. A creative blind boy
   d. A blind boy and the coins
   e. Kind passers-by

2. The communicative purpose of the text is...
   a. To entertain the readers with an amusing story
   b. To retell factual events
   c. To give some fact about the blind
   d. To present two points of view about a story
   e. To inform the readers about imaginative a story

3. "He took a few coins from his pocket and dropped them into the hat."
   The underlined word refers to...
   a. People
   b. Coins
   c. Men
   d. Money
   e. Signs

4. There were more coins in the hat because...
   a. A kind man gave him a few coins from his pocket
   b. Many people passed by his place to beg
   c. A man wrote different sign from it used to be
   d. The blind boy sobbed loudly
   e. A kind man helped him ask for more money

5. What can you learn from the story?
   a. Learning by doing
   b. Nothing is impossible
   c. Be humble and trustable
   d. Think positively and be creative
   e. He who works hard will be successful

Script : Kabayan Never Became Rich

Kabayan Never Became Rich

Widya as Kabayan

Rahma as Kabayan's Wife

Haura as God

Tsamarah as Narrator

One day, Kabayan and his wife went to Mount Gede for praying, fasting, and meditating. So that their wish to become rich might be granted them. In the midst of their meditations, a Goddes appeared to them,

Goddes   : "Kabayan"

Wife       : "Look Kabayan, The Goddes has appeared!!"

Kabayan : "Wow, unbelievable! Praise The Goddes!"

Goddes  : "Kabayan, you and your wife have been praying and meditating for a long time. Now I                            granted you two wishes. Remember, it's only two. You better talk it over with your wife                       before you make them."

Kabayan : "Only two? But even Genie in Alladin story granted 3 wishes."

Goddes   : "Just remember we lived in Tatar Sunda, not Persia."

And The Goddes disappears. Kabayan and his wife had a lengthy discussion about what they should wish for.

Kabayan : "We should wish for a great amount of money!"

Wife       : "But Kabayan, we need rice for our food...."

Kabayan : "We can buy rice if we have money, we can even buy other things like clothes, car, house, or jewerly like you want."

Wife       : "No-no-no. Rice is the most important. The others just addition."

Kabayan : "Please be understand honey, we suffer like this because we don't have money."
Wife       : "You will be more suffering if we don't have rice, you can't eat and you will die!"
Kabayan : "Money, we must wish for money."
Wife       : "Rice!"
Kabayan : "Money!"
Wife       : "Rice!"
Kabayan : "Money!"
Wife       : "Rice, I said rice!"
Kabayan : "Argh! You are so annoying! I wish The Gud turn you into a monkey!"
Goddes   : "Your wish has granted!"

As soon as Goddes granted Kabayan's wish, Kabayan's Wife turns into a monkey. Kabayan was very surprised.

Kabayan : " Oh my God! What have I done?!"
Goddes   : "Kabayan, you have one wish left."
Kabayan : "What have you done with my wife?! She becomes a monkey."
Goddes   : "That's your wish. I don't do anything wrong. So, what's your second wish?"
Kabayan : "Uh... What should I do? I want a lot of money, but my wife?"
Goddes   : "You want a lot of  money?"
Kabayan : "NO! Wait for a second, please... Hm..., I want my wife back into a human"
Goddes   : "Your wish has granted."

Kabayan's wife turns back into a human. Kabayan was very happy, but...

Wife       : "Have you wish for rice?"
Kabayan : "Um... Not yet..."
Wife       : "I know you wish for a lot of money, right?"
Kabayan : " I wish you turn back into a human."

Wife       : "What?! How fool you are! you wasting your wishes!"

Because of Kabayan's reckless, they remained poor as long as they lived.
The morel value of this story is to be careful in making a decision, think it wisely, don't flow by emotion, control it. So that you'll not regret your decision.

Thank you for reading and see you in the next post.^-^

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