m (Replacing Bird with Birds (automatic)) |
No edit summary Tag: Visual edit |
||
| Line 1: | Line 1: | ||
[[File:Weird and Strange Chicken 12.jpg|thumb|261x261px]] |
[[File:Weird and Strange Chicken 12.jpg|thumb|261x261px]] |
||
| − | The '''Alovot''' is a mysterious bird of Simeulue Island, located in Sumatra, Indonesia. |
+ | The '''Alovot''' is a mysterious bird of Simeulue Island, located in Sumatra, Indonesia. |
| + | |||
| + | == Description == |
||
| + | It is largely likened to a pheasant about the size of a chicken, with dark-brown plumage with lighter spots. It has a small, comb-like crest (perhaps only in males), with short legs. It is a nocturnal creature, indicating that it is shy and cautious. It feeds on rice, nests on stumps or logs, and its eggs are light brown and smaller than a hen’s. |
||
Its primary habitat is dense forest. It takes flight with a heavy, low flight when surprised. |
Its primary habitat is dense forest. It takes flight with a heavy, low flight when surprised. |
||
| − | == |
+ | == Possible explanations == |
| − | * An unknown species of ''peacock-pheasant'' (Polyplectron sp.), suggested by Karl Shuker. The description resembles the Mountain peacock-pheasant (P. inopinatus), which lives in undisturbed mountain forests of Malaysia. |
+ | * An unknown species of ''peacock-pheasant'' (''Polyplectron sp''.), suggested by Karl Shuker. The description resembles the Mountain peacock-pheasant (''P. inopinatus''), which lives in undisturbed mountain forests of Malaysia. |
| − | * An unknown species of |
+ | * An unknown species of gallopheasant (''Lophura sp''.). The description resembles a female Crested Fireback (''L. ignita''), once common in Sumatra and Borneo. Females are brown with white-striped underparts. |
| − | * An |
+ | * An unrecorded uncommon colour variant of a known bird, or a selectively bred variant of a domesticated jungle fowl that escaped or was released. |
[[Category:Cryptids]] |
[[Category:Cryptids]] |
||
[[Category:Cryptid Wiki]] |
[[Category:Cryptid Wiki]] |
||
Revision as of 14:40, 27 June 2020
The Alovot is a mysterious bird of Simeulue Island, located in Sumatra, Indonesia.
Description
It is largely likened to a pheasant about the size of a chicken, with dark-brown plumage with lighter spots. It has a small, comb-like crest (perhaps only in males), with short legs. It is a nocturnal creature, indicating that it is shy and cautious. It feeds on rice, nests on stumps or logs, and its eggs are light brown and smaller than a hen’s.
Its primary habitat is dense forest. It takes flight with a heavy, low flight when surprised.
Possible explanations
- An unknown species of peacock-pheasant (Polyplectron sp.), suggested by Karl Shuker. The description resembles the Mountain peacock-pheasant (P. inopinatus), which lives in undisturbed mountain forests of Malaysia.
- An unknown species of gallopheasant (Lophura sp.). The description resembles a female Crested Fireback (L. ignita), once common in Sumatra and Borneo. Females are brown with white-striped underparts.
- An unrecorded uncommon colour variant of a known bird, or a selectively bred variant of a domesticated jungle fowl that escaped or was released.