{"id":31273,"date":"2022-06-22T11:09:09","date_gmt":"2022-06-22T11:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/paneco.ch\/?p=31273"},"modified":"2023-02-13T10:02:23","modified_gmt":"2023-02-13T10:02:23","slug":"new-sumatran-songbird-breeding-programme-at-the-orangutan-haven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paneco.ch\/en\/new-sumatran-songbird-breeding-programme-at-the-orangutan-haven\/","title":{"rendered":"New Sumatran Songbird breeding programme at the Orangutan Haven"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>24 specialist captive breeding aviaries are recently being completed at the Orangutan Haven for focussed captive breeding programmes for critically endangered Sumatran songbird species, following recommendations from the IUCN Asian Songbird Trade Specialist Group. The aim is to prevent the extinction of endemic Sumatra songbird species and subspecies, some of which may already be extinct in the wild.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The initial target species potentially include birds like the Straw headed bulbul (<em>Pycnonotus zeylanicus<\/em>), Sumatran laughing thrush (<em>Garrulax bicolor<\/em>), Sumatran Mesia (<em>Leiothrix laurinae<\/em>), Nias Myna (<em>Gracula robusta<\/em>) and some of the island races of White rumped shama (<em>Copsychus malabaricus<\/em>). All are heavily traded and popular pets, especially for their voice, which can win significant prizes in singing competitions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/paneco.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Straw-headed-Bulbul_bearb-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-31284\" srcset=\"https:\/\/paneco.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Straw-headed-Bulbul_bearb-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/paneco.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Straw-headed-Bulbul_bearb-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/paneco.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Straw-headed-Bulbul_bearb-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/paneco.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Straw-headed-Bulbul_bearb-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/paneco.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Straw-headed-Bulbul_bearb-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Straw headed bulbul<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"794\" height=\"596\" src=\"https:\/\/paneco.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Sumatran-Mesia_bearb.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-31287\" srcset=\"https:\/\/paneco.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Sumatran-Mesia_bearb.jpg 794w, https:\/\/paneco.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Sumatran-Mesia_bearb-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/paneco.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Sumatran-Mesia_bearb-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 794px) 100vw, 794px\" \/><figcaption>Sumatran Mesia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The aviaries vary in size and structure, to allow variation according to the needs of the birds, and are currently being planted with trees and furnished with branches for the birds to perch on, and nesting places.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/paneco.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/avaries_bearb-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-31274\" srcset=\"https:\/\/paneco.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/avaries_bearb-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/paneco.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/avaries_bearb-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/paneco.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/avaries_bearb-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/paneco.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/avaries_bearb-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/paneco.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/avaries_bearb-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The new breeding programmes will begin when the Orangutan Haven has obtained its official operating licence (effectively Indonesia\u2019s equivalent of a zoo licence, from Indonesia\u2019s Ministry of Environment and Forestry), which we anticipate will happen in the coming months, and the team has already started looking for suitable birds to get things off the ground.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our latest project in Sumatra is the Orangutan Haven. Part of the Haven is a breeding programme for endangered sumatran songbirds. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rain-forest-protection"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paneco.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paneco.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paneco.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paneco.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paneco.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31273"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/paneco.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31321,"href":"https:\/\/paneco.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31273\/revisions\/31321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paneco.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paneco.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paneco.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}