Cempala Kuneng Bird

Cempala Kuneng Bird is the Mascot (Fauna Identity) of Aceh Province. Yellow Cempala Bird, also known as Ceumpala Kuneng, and Kucica Tailor-yellow is the identity fauna of Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam province, accompanying the flower of Jeumpa which is used as identity flora.

The Yellow Cempala (Trichixos pyrropygus) has been a bird of pride since the time of Sultan Iskandar Muda (1607 -1636) and is widely mentioned in the Aceh saga. It is therefore not surprising that then the bird, also known as Kucica Ekor-kuning, is then established as the fauna of the identity of the province of Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam.

This native bird has several names ranging from Cempala Kuneng, Kucica Ekor-kuning, and Ceumpala Kuneng, and in Acehese language itself is sometimes referred to as the cicem of nutmeg. In English one of these birds is called Rufous-Tailed Shama. And in Latin, the official scientific name is Trichixos pyrropygus, Lesson 1839 which is synonymous with Trichixos pyrropyga Sibley and Monroe (1990, 1993) and Copsychus pyrropygus.

Cempala Kuneng or Kucica Yellow-tailed (Trichixos pyrropygus), about 21 cm long, and long-tailed. The color of the fur is a shiny dark gray brown with typical white eyebrows that form above the eyes, as well as a sharp slender black beak. Some of the chest and stomach to the base of the tail and back are reddish yellow, while the tip of the tail is black with white edges on the bottom. The female bird is more brown and does not have white eyebrows. Teenagers are more brown with rusty red yellow spots. Sliced brown; black beak; black foot.

Chirping bird sounds Kucica The yellow tail usually consists of a melodious whistle, a single note and a double note, "pi-uuu", rising and decreasing alternately indefinitely.

The typical animal of Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam province known as the cengala kuneng is a native animal that inhabits Indonesia, Peninsular Malaysia, Brunei Darussalam, and Thailand. In Indonesia, Kucica Tailor-yellow (Trichixos pyrropygus) is spread not only in Aceh but can be found almost in the whole island of Sumatra and Kalimantan.

The Ceumpala Kuneng bird habitat includes lowland forest, peat swamp area, wide-leaved forest with altitude below 1,200 meters above sea level.

The number of populations and individuals is not known with certainty. But allegedly has experienced a very large population decline and began to become rare animals in some areas. Population decline is caused by high levels of forest destruction in Sumatra and Kalimantan and illegal hunting for sale as domestic birds.

Although its presence in the wild is increasingly scarce, but by the IUCN Red List international conservation agencies are still not considered threatened and only categorized in Near Threatened or near threatened species since 2000. Not listed in the CITES appendix and not included in the list of protected animals as regulated Government no. 7 of 1999.

But with a very high rate of deforestation, does not close the possibility of beautiful birds Ceumpala Kuneng or Kucica Tail-kuning will only be left in Hikayat Aceh alone.