Endangered Birds Got the Beach

Most of us normal, average people would like to have a beach of our own where we can lie down and savor the sun all day. What will make it better than somebody else buying it for you and allowing you to use the beach for free? Apparently, you have to be an endangered species first before you can get someone to buy you a whole stretch of beach to lay egg on.

Meet the Maleo birds, these endangered birds got their own stretch of Indonesian beach to their name, complete with bodyguards to protect their eggs from human scavengers and hungry poachers. Maleo birds are considered endangered since they are very rare. These endangered species are also a native of Indonesia; unfortunately, their eggs have become a popular delicacy around the Sulawesi, an island in Indonesia. This situation had brought down the number of live Maleo birds threatening to extinct them.

An adult Maleo bird will lay her only egg and bury it in the warm sand or soil; after that she will just leave and fly away making the egg exposed to scavengers. If the egg is lucky, it will hatch and live on its own but usually that is not the case. The beach that has been awarded to the Maleo birds is the common hatching ground of Maleo birds in the area.

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