ABSTRACT
Ethno-ornithology utilized to document traditional knowledge of the community, who
have used the services of various bird species to support life, for example as a source of
food, traditional medicine, traditional rituals, crafts, religious, and social life. The
research objective is to explore forms of local wisdom relating to bird and bird species
used to know the community and has values of local wisdom in Pematang Gadung’s
Village Ketapang. Based on the results of the study found as many as 45 species of birds
as a form of local wisdom, classified into 22 families (family), 18 species of birds
included in the protected category under the Act, CITES and IUCN. Only 28 species were
found at the time of observation. Based on usability, quality value that is most widely
used as a myth, while the little used that as a result of analysis using indicator. Cultural
Values Index, the highest cultural values derived from species that have become a kind of
domestication is Gallus domesticus (Gallus sp) with a score of 60 and score value ICS 3,
while the value of the lowest cultural interests acquired from bird species Ixobrychus
cinnamomeus value cultural interests 0.25 which means to have a score of 1.
Key Words : Bird, etno-ornithology and local wisdom
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