Daftar Burung Indonesia No 2. Indonesian Ornithologists’ Union (IdOU)
157 pages. The new Indonesian bird checklist, based on Paul Andrews 1992 original, updated and nicely presented. Common names in English as well as systematic names.
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Indonesia, with over 17.000 islands, makes this "island nation" the fourth richness country in the world, in terms of numbers of bird species and number one country in terms of bird species endemism. Today, IdOU's (Indonesian Ornithology Union) bird checklist compiles 1.595 (about 16% of the world’s total) recorded species in Indonesia. One of very important islands that supports Indonesian birds' habitat is the island of Papua (Irian-Jaya).
Papua, Indonesian New Guinea or Irian-Jaya, is one of the four main big islands in Indonesia. It shares the western half part of the whole New Guinea Island with its sister country Papua New Guinea (PNG) on the east part. Papua covers a total area of 416.000km2.
Papua is 810km away from North Australia and 3,520 km from Indonesian capital city, Jakarta. It is an undiscovered world of pristine tropical rainforest with its eternal snow capped mountain ridges of more than 5,000 meter high.
The various topography of New Guinea area reflects the complex patterns of the bird distribution. From the some 725 species recorded (Beehler, Pratt & Zimmerman's Birds of New Guinea, 1986), 101 are endemic to New Guinea, where 39 are at West Papua part (Jepson & Ounsted, Birding Indonesia, 1997).
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