The beautiful song of the straw-headed bulbul makes them a prime target for poachers in the region.
The Climate Conversations podcast heads outdoors in search of a beloved songbird – the straw-headed bulbul. Fewer than 1,700 of these birds remain in the wild worldwide, largely due to habitat loss and poaching.
Julie Yoo meets the co-chairs of the Straw-headed Bulbul Working Group, Low Bing Wen from the National Parks Board and Alfred Chia from Nature Society Singapore, to find out more about the conservation efforts to save these birds.The biggest threat by far is probably trapping for the caged-bird trade ... Around Southeast Asia there's still a very high demand for keeping these birds ... in captivity.
The price of a single individual on some ... bird markets has risen by 10 times in the last 10 years to around US$2,000.The straw-headed bulbul are critically endangered globally due to a booming caged-bird trade. The straw-headed bulbul is distinguished by their bubbly and cheery calls, a duet made when the male and female sing on top of each other. In surrounding regions like Kalimantan, Thailand and probably Malaysia too, it's quite bad to the point that they are almost driven to extinction ... and you seldom get to hear them or see them as much as you do in Singapore.
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