The Hornbill Bird




Hornbill Birds or  is a species of bird that has abeak-shaped horns of the cow but without the circle. Usually that light-colored beak. The scientific name "Mascot" refers to the shape of the beak, and has the meaning "ox horns" in the language of Greece. 
Hornbill in the Bucerotidae group belongs to include 57 species. Nine endemic species there of 
originating in the southern partof Africa. The food especially fruits also lizards, bats, rats, snakes and various types of insects. (Source: http://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enggang)

63 (Allo, Ruai/term for Dayaks Arue) is a type of bird which is on the island of Borneo. Hornbill has a pretty large body size, which is about 100 cm. There are about 8 different types of Hornbill with body color combination of black and white, while the color of the beak is a mix of yellow, Orange and red. Typical of this is the existence ofbird beak Horn (casque) that grows on the top of its beak. Bird food is figs has specialized nesting behavior. Hornbill has a habit of living pairs and how bertelurnya is an attraction. At the beginning of the period of spawning males make a hole locatedhigh on tree trunks for nesting place and bertelurnya the female then male feeding the birds females through a small hole during the incubation period, and continuing until their children grow up to be a young bird. Why this Hornbill in use as a symbolby the dayak tribe? It symbolises the dayak befits Dove symbolises purity and eternity in Christian religious. Therefore, Hornbill was featured as an example of life for the people of dayak community to keep loving and loved her life partner and parenting them to become an independent and mature dayak. But now this Hornbill is a rare bird that has been very difficult to find in the jungle of borneo, this is because thepengerusakan borneo that constantly occur, such as well logging illegal logging as well as land for Palm oil plantations. The fate of the Hornbill is now the same as the fate of the Dayak tribe in borneo that is increasingly marginalized in their own land.Now this bird as a symbol only and can only be seen in a picture that shows footage of its heyday in the past. It can only be seen as a symbol of that depicted in the form of motifs as in this picture. Pity once their fate. The remaining part of it is just an image and a few parts of the beak and feathers which remain stored neatly by the dayak community.


Based on the trust of the people of old, symbolizing Hornbill is equivalent to symbolizing the Dragon, who considered that the Hornbill as symbolizing nature's top (ceiling) and the dragon as symbolizing nature (land). Here the Hornbill as a guard overnature, and as a manifestation of the balance with nature.
The thinking of the founder of the University of gastric Mangkurat with symbolizingnature's top can be thought of as a manifestation of nature's thought or idea or idea that is perfect with the campus community lives his days studying at the same time knitting ideas of humanity.

The specialities of the Hornbill, namely at a time when the female incubating their eggs until they hatch never left the nest, then the dining needs during the disarang provided by the Hornbill. In terms of food the Hornbill was not too picky an important origin of the fruit that is ripe it will be ate, such as bananas, mangoes, then kestelais also sometimes eat small animals for digestion.
The female Hornbill will long be disarangnya so long as disarangnya the female form covered with a single nest hole is not too large, then the nest was continuously strung together into a large nest if his sons have already hatched, as well as children who have started the great can take this nest of merevarasi be great for his own by connecting from a parent's nest.


Rare wildlife poaching activity protected more languid days. The person catching the animals hunters hunting in many ways. Their purpose is only one, so get the rare animal for sale with exorbitant prices.
Endangered types of poultry also include wildlife is often hunted. One of the Hornbill or often called Hornbill. Birds with specific width and long-beaked it becomes it. As a result, populations of animals that threatened to diminish.
Some time ago in the city of Padang, a number of members of the Hornbill bird hunters arrested police. They bring results found for sale to neighboring countries. According to their confessions, a total of 48 bird beak fruit can be sold at exorbitant prices because it is believed to be efficacious for drugs. In fact there are also making half of the Hornbill for ring and other jewellery.

Because of the difficulty of getting the current Hornbill, Borneo plumage typical of this sale are expensive to Rp.250 thousand($25) per painting.


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