Saving the endangered maleo bird on Sulawesi | IUCN NL
2024年9月30日 · The Indonesian island of Sulawesi harbours numerous rare and endangered species, among which the maleo bird. Once common all over Sulawesi, its numbers dropped significantly as people poached its unusually large and nutritious eggs, which are locally considered a delicacy.
IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
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Indonesian maleo conservation faced setbacks due to …
2023年12月7日 · However, the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species describes the maleo as critically endangered and declining with only 8,000 to 14,000 adults. With their habitat dwindling and nesting grounds facing encroachment from human activities, the journey of a maleo pair for egg laying grows ever more precarious and uncertain.
Maleo - Wikipedia
The maleo (Macrocephalon maleo) is a large megapode and the only member of the monotypic genus Macrocephalon. The maleo is endemic to Sulawesi and the nearby smaller island of Buton in Indonesia .
The maleo: a success story for Indonesia’s strange pit-digging …
2015年10月19日 · Indonesia’s Sulawesi is home to the maleo, a bird with highly unusual reproductive behaviors, and threatened for decades with extinction. Loss of nesting sites and harvesting of the maleo’s ...
Maleos bounce back in Sulawesi after villagers resolve to protect …
2021年8月9日 · The maleo (Macrocephalon maleo), an endangered bird endemic to Sulawesi, Indonesia, lays a single gigantic egg in a hole that is then incubated solely by the geothermal heat in the sand or soil.
Can We Save the Maleo, the Most Curious of Sulawesi’s Endemic Birds?
2014年1月15日 · First, there is its striking profile; on a map, Sulawesi’s sprawling limbs make it look like a wild, dancing monkey. Then there are the strange and unexpected animals found there, including two species of dwarf buffalo called anoas, a host of unusual primates, and perhaps best of all, the babirusa—a weird, tusked pig.
• The IUCN (International Union for the Conservation of Nature), the international body that ranks status of plants and animals, has ranked the maleo as ENDANGERED since 2002, their second-highest category of concern (under “Critically Endangered”). This listing reflects the maleo’s continued decline, since
Maleo (Macrocephalon maleo) - BirdLife species factsheet
Macrocephalon maleo is endemic to Sulawesi and Buton Islands, Indonesia (Prawiradilaga 1997, Dekker et al. 2000, BirdLife International 2001). Of 149 nesting grounds considered to be active within the past three generations (since 1983), only 47 …
Degree of egg-taking by humans determines the fate of maleo
2022年12月17日 · The maleo (Macrocephalon maleo) is a highly imperiled megapode endemic to, and once common throughout, Indonesia’s major island of Sulawesi (BirdLife International 2021). This striking black, white, and salmon-pink chicken-sized bird does not incubate its own eggs: pairs travel from their rainforest habitat to a communal nesting ground ...