Bird Pleci is a small bird that is quite popular today. Although small, the ability of birds chirping is reliable and quite entertaining. There's even been a bird race that often involves this type of Pleci bird.
Type Pleci is very popular in 2014 to 2015. But until now, still has many fans. It makes this type of bird demand in the market is quite high. Not a few also breed this type of bird because of it.
These bird species have habitats in the tropics and subtropics. We can find the spread in Asia, such as India, China, and Indonesia. In an archipelago like Indonesia, there are endemic Pleci species that live only in that place.
This small, greenish-colored Pleci bird is in great demand because of its attractive sound. With a relatively affordable price, this bird has its own segment. Train this bird can make bird enthusiasts will be more relaxed and entertained.
in Indonesia there are some pleci birds that often circulate in the market in general the people of Indonesia called pleci birds based on physical characteristics and also the original region such as pleci bird dakun maput for pleci birds that have a yellow chest with white eyes, pleci dakun brown eyes, then there is also white / breast plaque pleci, pleci bali, pleci sumbawa, pleci flores and even some call with isitilah pleci Java. regardless of the above mentionations based on information from various sources hobiburung.org summarizes more or less there are 4 species of bird pleci popular in Indonesia among others
Pleci Jawa (Zosterops flavus)
refers to information from wikipedia about birds Javanese glasses, this bird has a physical characteristic of the color of the body is dominated by the color of the cat and has a small enough size. in contrast to the sea pleci that has a larger size.
Pleci Auriventer (Zosterops palpebrosus auriventer)
one of the physical characteristics of the auriventer pleci bird is the color on the chest hair that it has. in contrast to java pleci birds that have cat-shaped breasts. pleci auriventer has a gray chest and has a larger body size and sunglasses Jjika compared with Java pleci. in indonesia based on information from omkicau.com this type of pleci birds can only be met in sumatra and kalimantan.
Pleci Montanus (Zosterops montanus)
pleci montanus or often also called a mountain pleci. the physical feature for this bird species is to have a larger body size than the pleci buxtoni as well as from the auriventer pleci while the fur on the chest / abdomen is dominated by grayish color and some also have yellow stripes like pleci buxtoni.
Pleci Buxtoni (Zosterops palpebrosus buxtoni)
pleci buxtoni has a dispersal area around sumatran and west java. physically this bird has a smaller size when compared with pleci daput (other white chest such as pleci montaus and pleci aruventer).
In addition to the above 4 types of birds pleci actually in Indonesia there are quite a lot of bird species pleci spread in Indonesia for example, sunglasses papua, sulawesi eyeglasses, sunglasses, glasses makasar, goggles, ambon glasses and there is one more togian glasses (Zosterops somadikartai) .
Food for birds Pleci in the wild are fruits such as bananas, papaya and small insects that usually exist in between the trees. But this bird can also consume nectar or plant extracts as well as fruits. With a flexible way of eating, this type of Pleci bird can survive and adapt easily.
When grown or cultivated, Pleci birds can eat various types of artificial food such as voer. In addition, we can add vegetables and insects so that the food can be more varied. Thus, the bird will be healthier and can sing perfectly.