The Crested Wood Partridge
There are variety of birds that is breed and kept in Wildlife Fauna Janda Baik. Here is only some of them.
The Crested Wood Partridge, Rollulus rouloul, also known as the Crested
Partridge, Roul-roul, Red-crowned Wood Partridge or Green Wood Partridge is
a gamebird in the pheasant family Phasianidae of the order Galliformes,
gallinaceous birds. It is the only member of the genus Rollulus.
This small partridge is a resident breeder in lowland rainforests in south
Burma, south Thailand, Malaysia, Sumatra and Borneo. Its nest is a ground scrape
lined with leaves, which is concealed under a heap of leaf litter. Five or six
white eggs are incubated for 18 days.
Unusually for a galliform species, the young are fed bill-to-bill by both
parents instead of pecking from the ground, and although precocial, they roost
in the nest while small.
Crested Wood Partridge is a rotund short-tailed bird, 25cm in length, with the
male marginally larger than the female. Both sexes have a scarlet patch of bare
skin around the eye and red legs without a spur or hind toe.
The male is metallic green above with glossy dark blue underparts and a brownish
wing panel. The head is adorned with a tall red crest, a white forehead spot and
black frontal bristles. The female has pea-green body plumage apart from the
brown wing coverts. She has a slate-grey head with the bristles but no spot or
crest. The bill is all-dark. Young birds are duller versions of the adult of the
same sex. The song is a mournful whistled si-ul.
The Crested Wood Partridge is usually seen singly or in pairs as it forages on
the ground for fruit, seeds and invertebrates. When disturbed, it prefers to run
but if necessary it flies a short distance on its rounded wings.
There is some concern about the effect of habitat destruction on this bird,
especially with regard to logging. However, it seems to be somewhat more
adaptable than other southeast Asian pheasants. The Crested Wood Partridge is
evaluated as Near Threatened on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. It is
listed on Appendix III of CITES.