who is not familiar with this beautiful bird ,,, Javan lathe is an endemic bird in Java Island. Large posture, with a length of about 46 cm. His body color is shiny black, ranging from head, back, beak, legs, and tail. Only the wings are rust-red, and the red-eye irises are burning.
Female Javanese lathe has a larger body size than a male bird. But distinguishing the sex of this bird remains difficult, if there is no comparison of two different types of birds. Because the physical appearance of male and female birds is relatively the same.
the appearance of Javanese bird is like a bird of predators, with a hard and large beak, Javanese lathe is an insectivorous bird. The preferred insects include grasshoppers, large butterflies, caterpillars, crickets, beetles, and dragonflies.
not just insects, they also love snails, centipedes, saplings, frogs, small snakes, to rodents like little rats. In the wild, Javanese lathe does not coexist with other species of lathes, due to habitat differences.
Javanese lathes breeding Java lathes occur in January to March. They will nest in nests built using leaves from ferns (Acrostichium) located on the banks of rivers or swamps.
Javanese lathes have Nest placed about 3 to 6 meters above the water level in mangrove forests. There is a difference of data about the number of eggs produced by female lathe.
Javanese parent lathe only produce 1-3 eggs in each spawn period (clutch). However, according to Birdlife International, the number of birds eggs can reach 3-5 grains per clutch, the rate of growth of the population of Java lathe is very low, only laying 1-3 eggs, of course, decreasing the population in the wild.
Javanese lathes (also other lathe types) are caught not to be maintained, but for the oil to be taken. That said, this lathe oil is believed to have medicinal properties, especially helping in the healing of broken bones.
