PERILAKU BURUNG BAYAN SUMBA (Eclectus roratus cornelia Bonaparte) DI PENANGKARAN HAMBALA, SUMBA TIMUR, NUSA TENGGARA TIMUR

Abstract

Behaviour of bayan sumba bird (Eclectus roratus cornelia Bonaparte) is necessarily observed to support the captive breeding in Hambala, East Sumba. This research aimed to identify the health, breeding ability, and process of adaptation of the bird to new environment to find out about proper management of captive breeding. Bird’s behavior was directly observed in captivity. The research found that the bayan sumba bird in Hambala had four main behaviours consisting of 13 kinds activities. These behaviours were (1) moving consisted of flying, walking, fighting, and hanging activities, (2) idle consisted of perching, resting, and exposing himself to the sun activities, (3) ingestive covered eating, drinking, and cleaning up activities, and (4) mating consisted of approaching to attract a hen, touching head of hen (with his beak), and paying court to a hen activities. The averages of moving, idle, ingestive, and mating behaviour frequencies were 12.59, 16.5, 6.43, and 1.9 times respectively. Keywords: