Crested Wood-Partridge
Rollulus roulroul
Bird
Order Galliformes
Description
26 cm; male 232g - female 202g. Male spectacular reddish crest,
all dark plumage and bright red bare parts with a grayish belly. Female
plumage green and gray. Immature birds resembles female.
Range
S Burma and SW Thailand through Peninsular Malaysia to Sumatra
and Borneo.
Status
Not globally threatened, but considered vulnerable. Different
distributions of birds depending where their location.
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Ecology
- Habitat
- Evergreen forest, mainly in plains and foothills, but in places up
to 1200m.
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- Niche
- Omnivorous - Eats seeds large fruits, large beetles, wood ants, insects,
small mollusc. Association with wild pigs reported- Whereby the birds can
feed on discarded fragments of fruit which they would be unable to tackle
whole.
Life History
Egg laying depends on locality. In Peninsular Malaysia. Egg laying happens
in most months Dec.- Apr. Nests; simply a depression in dry leaves. 5-6
eggs incubation (in captivity) 18 -19 days. Females do the incubation. Associate
in parties of 5-15 , scrabbling in the forest floor litter for food. Parties
scatter noisly noisily when alarmed.
Special Adaptation
- Associating in parties help warn each other of danger.
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