Amazing Birds, Indonesia

Blue Bird of Paradise or the scientific name Paradisaea rudolphi is a kind of medium-sized birds of paradise, with a length of about 30cm, of the genus Paradisaea. Regional distribution of Blue Paradise found in the forests of the eastern highlands of Papua New Guinea and southeast, generally from a height of 1,400 meters to a height of 1,800 meters above sea level.

Red Bird of Paradise or the scientific name Paradisaea rubra is a type of warbler-sized, with a length of about 33cm, from the clan Paradisaea. Endemic to Indonesia, Red Paradise found only in lowland forests on the island and Batanta Waigeo in Raja Ampat, West Irian Jaya province.

Bali Starling or the scientific name Leucopsar rothschildi is a kind of warbler-sized, approximately 25cm in length, from the tribe Sturnidae. Endemic to Indonesia, Bali Starling is only found in the woods west of the island of Bali. This bird is also the only endemic species of Bali, which in 1991 was named the fauna symbol of Bali province. The existence of endemic animals are protected by law.

Cekakak-forest bird has a unique and distinctive voice. In general, they are loud. Whistling high and reads "kwii-kwii ...". Uniquely, each whistle is produced approximately one note per second. These types of birds live in the woods and hunt from a low perch. Unlike a loud voice, this bird was rather shy. They are just looking for prey from the ground with leaves keep turning.
In Indonesia, bird species are scattered in Sumatra, including offshore islands, Borneo and Java.

Black Parrot also Red Parrot of Biak, which the scientific name cyanogenia Eos is a kind of parrot-sized, with a length of about 30cm, from the tribe Psittacidae. Endemic to Indonesia, found only in forest habitat on the coastal island of Biak and the islands of the Gulf of Paradise, Papua. This species is often found nesting in the plantations and coconut.

King parrot, This species lives at an altitude of 0-1520 feet above sea level, usually in groups. Cockatoo generally long-lived, until reaching 60 years even more. Cockatoo inhabits primary and secondary forests are high and the forest edge; also monsoon forests (Nusa Tenggara), high bush forest, rare trees and shrubs that tree cultivation is rare. From sea level to an altitude of 900 m (Sulawesi), 1520 m (Lombok), 1000 m (Sumbawa).

Java Peacock or Green Peacock , the scientific name Pavo muticus is one of the birds of the three species of peacock. Like other birds found in the tribe Phasianidae, Green Peacock have a beautiful coat. With green feathers golden. Adult male birds are very large, can reach 300cm in length, with a very long tail cover. Female birds are smaller than males. Feathers are less shiny, green-grayish. Population scattered in open forests with grasslands in java and sumatra, Indonesia.

Wayang, Indonesia

Wayang is an Indonesian word for theatre (literally "shadow"). When the term is used to refer to kinds of puppet theatre, sometimes the puppet itself is referred to as wayang. Performances of shadow puppet theatre are accompanied by gamelan in Java, and by "gender wayang" in Bali.
UNESCO designated Wayang Kulit, a shadow puppet theatre and the best known of the Indonesian wayang, as a Masterpiece of Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity on 7 November 2003. In return for the acknowledgment, UNESCO required Indonesians to preserve their heritage.

Wayang kulit, shadow puppets prevalent in Java and Bali in Indonesia, are without a doubt the best known of the Indonesian wayang. Kulit means skin, and refers to the leather construction of the puppets that are carefully chiselled with very fine tools and supported with carefully shaped buffalo horn handles and control rods.
The stories are usually drawn from the Ramayana, the Mahabharata or the Serat Menak.

Wayang wong also known as Wayang orang (literally human wayang) is a type of Javanese dance theatrical performance with themes taken from episode of Ramayana or Mahabharata.

Wayang golek (rod puppets) are wooden doll puppets that are operated from below by rods connected to the hands and a central control rod that runs through the body to the head. The simple construction of the puppets belies their versatility, expressiveness and aptitude for imitating human dance. Today, wayang golek is mainly associated with Sundanese culture of West Java. However the wooden wayang also known in Central Java as Wayang Menak, originated from Kudus Central Java.

Wayang klitik figures occupy a middle ground between the figures of wayang golek and wayang kulit. They are constructed similarly to wayang kulit figures, but from thin pieces of wood instead of leather, and, like wayang kulit figures, are used as shadow puppets. A further similarity is that they are the same smaller size as wayang kulit figures. However, wood is more subject to breakage than leather. During battle scenes, wayang klitik figures often sustain considerable damage, much to the amusement of the public, but in a country in which before 1970 there were no adequate glues available, breakage generally meant an expensive, newly made figure. On this basis the wayang klitik figures, which are to appear in plays where they have to endure battle scenes, have leather arms. The name of these figures is onomotopaeic, from the sound klitik-klitik, that these figures make when worked by the dalang.

The wayang beber has strong similarities to narratives in the form of illustrated ballads that were common at annual fairs in medieval and early modern Europe. They have also been subject to the same fate—they have nearly vanished. Chinese visitors to Java during the 15th century described a storyteller or unrolled scrolls and told stories that made the audience laugh or cry. A few scrolls of images remain from those times, found today in museums. There are two sets, hand-painted on hand-made bark cloth, that are still owned by families who have inherited them from many generations ago, in Pacitan and Wonogiri, both villages in Central Java. Performances, mostly in small open-sided pavilions or auditoriums.