Taxobox name King of SaxonyBird of paradise status LC status system IUCN3.1 image Pteridophora alberti Papua New Guinea 8.jpg image caption Male in Papua New Guinea image width 300px regnum Animal ia phylum Chordate Chordata classis Bird Aves ordo Passeriformes familia Paradisaeidae genus Pteridophora genus authority Adolf Bernard Meyer A.B. Meyer , 1894 species P. alberti binomial Pteridophora alberti binomial authority Adolf Bernard Meyer Meyer , 1894 The King of SaxonyBird of paradise Pteridophora alberti is a bird in the Bird of paradise family biology family Paradisaeidae . It is the only member in the monotypic genus Pteridophora . It is Endemism endemic to montane forest in New Guinea . Both the common name King of Saxony and the scientific specific name alberti were given to honour Albert of Saxony , whose wife gave her to the Queen Carola s Bird of Paradise . The bird is sometimes known as Kisaba by the natives of Papua New Guinea and Western New Guinea, as a human interpretation of the male s loud call. The diet consists mainly of fruits, berries and arthropods . Description File Pteridophora alberti by Bowdler Sharpe.jpg right thumb Illustration The adult King of SaxonyBird of paradise is approximately 22 cm long. The male is black and yellow with a dark brown Iris anatomy iris , black Beak bill , brownish grey legs, aqua green mouth, with two remarkably long up to 50 cm scalloped, enamel blue brow plumes that can be erected at the bird s will. The unadorned female is greyish brown with barred underparts. The male s ornamental head plumes are so bizarre that, when the first specimen was brought to Europe , it was thought to be a fake. Distribution The species is distributed from the Weyland Mountains in Western New Guinea to the Krathe Range in Papua ... filmed the first ever footage of the mating ritual of the bird. References IUCN2006 assessors BirdLife ...?species 51207 IUCN Red List wikispecies Pteridophora alberti Commons Pteridophora alberti Birds of paradise ... more details
Taxobox name King of Holland s Bird of Paradise image status regnum Animal ia phylum Chordate Chordata classis Bird Aves ordo Passeriformes familia Paradisaeidae genus Cicinnurus species C. magnificus x C. regius synonyms Diphyllodes gulielmi III Adolf Bernard Meyer Meyer , 1875 Rhipidornis gulielmi III Diphyllodes Rhipidornis gulielmitertii The King of Holland s Bird of Paradise , also known as King William III s Bird of Paradise or the Exquisite Little King , ref Iredale 1950 , p.107. ref is a bird in the family Paradisaeidae that is a hybrid biology hybrid between a Magnificent Bird of Paradise and KingBird of Paradise . History At least 25 adult male specimens of this hybrid exist in various collections, including the American Museum of Natural History , coming mainly from north coastal New Guinea or unknown localities. It was described as a new species by Adolf Bernard Meyer in 1875 and diagnosed as a hybrid by Jacques Berlioz in 1927. ref Frith & Beehler 1998 , p.507. ref Notes reflist References cite book title The Birds of Paradise author Frith, Clifford B. & Beehler, Bruce M. year 1998 publisher Oxford University Press location Oxford isbn 9780198548539 pages url cite book title Birds of Paradise and Bower Birds author Iredale, Tom year 1950 publisher Georgian House location Melbourne isbn pages url Birds of paradise Category Cicinnurus Category Hybrid birds of paradise Category Birds of New Guinea Paradisaeidae stub nl Koning Willem III paradijsvogel ... more details
Taxobox name KingBird of paradise image Cicinnurus regius 20031005.jpg image caption male status LC status system IUCN3.1 regnum Animal ia phylum Chordate classis Bird Aves ordo Passeriformes familia Bird of paradise Paradisaeidae genus Cicinnurus species C. regius binomial Cicinnurus regius binomial authority Carolus Linnaeus Linnaeus , 1758 The KingBird of paradise , Cicinnurus regius is a small, approximately 16 cm long, passerine bird of the Bird of paradise Paradisaeidae Bird of paradise family. The male is a crimson and white with bright blue feet and green tipped fan like plumes on its shoulder. The two elongated tail wires are decorated with Emerald color emerald green disk feathers on its tip. The unadorned female is a brown bird with barring below. The KingBird of paradise is distributed throughout lowland forests of New Guinea and nearby islands. This so called living Gemstone gem is the smallest and most vividly colored among birds of paradise. The diet consists mainly of fruits and arthropods . An extraordinary display is performed by the male with a series of tail swinging, fluffing of its abdomen white feathers that makes the bird look like a cottonball, and acrobatic pendulum displays. Widespread and a common species throughout its large habitat range, the KingBird of paradise is evaluated as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. It is listed on Appendix II of CITES . References IUCN2010 assessors BirdLife International year 2009 version 3.1 146712 title Cicinnurus regius downloaded 11 Mar 2011 Database entry includes justification for why this species is of least concern External links http www.birdlife.org datazone species index.html?action SpcHTMDetails.asp&sid 5832&m 0 BirdLife Species Factsheet commons Cicinnurus regius Birds of paradise Category Cicinnurus Category Birds of New Guinea Category Birds of Western New Guinea Category Birds of Papua New Guinea Paradisaeidae stub de K nigs Paradiesvogel et Karmiin paradiisilind ... more details
Taxobox name Lyre tailed KingBird of Paradise image status regnum Animal ia phylum Chordate Chordata classis Bird Aves ordo Passeriformes familia Paradisaeidae genus Cicinnurus species C. regius x C. magnificus synonyms Cicinnurus lyogyrus Currie, 1900 Cicinnurus goodfellowi Ogilvie Grant, 1907 The Lyre tailed KingBird of Paradise , also known as the Lyre tailed King , Lonely Little King or Crimson Bird of Paradise , is a bird in the family Paradisaeidae that is a hybrid biology hybrid between a KingBird of Paradise and Magnificent Bird of Paradise . History At least three adult male specimens are known of this hybrid, coming from an altitude of 1000 m in the Cyclops Mountains , near Yos Sudarso Bay Humboldt Bay on the northern coast of New Guinea , as well as unknown localities. ref Frith & Beehler 1998 , p.507. ref ref Iredale 1950 , pp.105 106. ref Notes reflist References cite book title The Birds of Paradise author Frith, Clifford B. & Beehler, Bruce M. year 1998 publisher Oxford University Press location Oxford isbn 9780198548539 pages url cite book title Birds of Paradise and Bower Birds author Iredale, Tom year 1950 publisher Georgian House location Melbourne isbn pages url Birds of paradise Category Cicinnurus Category Hybrid birds of paradise Category Birds of New Guinea Paradisaeidae stub ... more details
years ago. The second clade includes the parotia s and the King of SaxonyBird of paradise . The third ... to the Corvidae corvids crows and jays . Birds of paradise range in size from the KingBird of paradise ... Cicinnurus Magnificent Bird of paradise , Cicinnurus magnificus Wilson s Bird of paradise , Cicinnurus respublica KingBird of paradise , Cicinnurus regius Genus Semioptera Standardwing , Semioptera wallacii ... s Bird of Paradise is a hybrid between the Raggiana Bird of Paradise and Lesser Bird of Paradise . King of Holland s Bird of Paradise , also known as King William III s Bird of Paradise, was described ... Bird of Paradise and KingBird of Paradise . Lupton s Bird of Paradise was described as a subspecies ... and Greater Bird of Paradise . col 2 Lyre tailed KingBird of Paradise , also known as the Lonely Little King or Crimson Bird of Paradise, was described as a species Cicinnurus lyogyrus Currie, 1900 , but is a hybrid between the Magnificent Bird of Paradise and KingBird of Paradise . Mantou s Riflebird ...About the bird family Paradisaeidae Bird of paradise disambiguation Bird of paradise Taxobox name Bird of paradise image Paradisaea minor.jpg image width image caption Adult male Lesser Bird of paradise ... s Bird of paradise . ref name HBW The majority of birds of paradise live in tropical forests, including ... Male Greater Bird of paradise displaying The diet of the birds of paradise is dominated by fruit ... billed Bird of Paradise , are valid. Citation needed date June 2008 Despite the presence of hybrids ... Cracraft first J. & Feinstein, J. year 2000 title What is not a bird of paradise? Molecular and morphological ... s Giant Honeyeater Macgregor s Bird of paradise was actually a member of the large Australasian ..., J. 1987 . The Lesser Melampitta is a Bird of Paradise Emu 87 66 68 ref but their relationships ... Parotia , Parotia helenae Wahnes s Parotia , Parotia wahnesi Genus Pteridophora King of SaxonyBird of paradise , Pteridophora alberti Genus Lophorina Superb Bird of paradise , Lophorina superba ... more details
Bird of paradise or bird of paradise may refer to TOC right Birds Bird of paradise , the family of birds, Paradisaeidae of the order Passeriformes The genera of this family that have Bird of paradise in the common name Pteridophora Lophorina Cicinnurus Seleucidis Paradisaea Macgregor s Giant Honeyeater , a black crow like bird also known as Macgregor s Bird of Paradise Satinbird s, a family of passerines originally thought to be part of the Paradisaeidae family Melampitta , an enigmatic genus of birds placed by some authors in Paradisaeidae Huma bird , a mythological creature commonly depicted in Persian, Ottoman Turkish, and Urdu poetry Plants Strelitzia , a genus of 5 species of perennials ... plantains or false bird of paradise Caesalpinia gilliesii , a shrub in the legume family Caesalpinia pulcherrima , a shrub in the legume family, commonly called Red Bird of Paradise or Mexican Bird of Paradise Film and television Bird of Paradise 1932 film Bird of Paradise 1932 film , directed by King Vidor Bird of Paradise 1951 film Bird of Paradise 1951 film , directed by Delmer Daves Bird of Paradise ... Showdown Bird of Paradise , an episode of the TV series Godzilla TV series Godzilla Music Bird of Paradise Snowy White song Bird of Paradise Snowy White song Bird of Paradise , a song by The Appleseed Cast on the album Low Level Owl, Vol. 1 Bird of Paradise , a song by Charlie Parker Bird of Paradise , a song by Serj Tankian Birds of Paradise , a song by Peter, Sue and Marc Birds of Paradise musical Birds of Paradise musical , a 1987 off broadway musical with music by David Evans, lyrics by Winnie Holzman, and a book by both Birds of Paradise , a song by Your Vegas Other Bird of Paradise aircraft The Bird of Paradise 1912 play The Bird of Paradise 1912 play , written by Richard Walton Tully Bird of Paradise Island , an island near Tobago See also ParadiseBird , an album by Amii Stewart The Byrds of Paradise , a television series disambig bjn C ndrawasih de Paradiesvogel fr Oiseau de paradis ... more details
About an album other uses Bird of paradise disambiguation Infobox Album See Wikipedia WikiProject Albums Name ParadiseBird Type Studio Artist Amii Stewart Cover Amii Stewart Paradise Bird.jpg Released September 1979 Recorded 1979 Genre R&B , Pop music , Disco Length Label Hansa Records Ariola Records Producer Barry Leng Last album Knock On Wood Amii Stewart album Knock On Wood br 1979 This album ParadiseBird br 1979 Next album Images Amii Stewart album Images br 1981 ParadiseBird is a studio album by Amii Stewart released in September 1979. The album yielded two European single releases, Jealousy 58 UK, 4 Italy, 5 Netherlands and double A side The Letter ParadiseBird 39 UK 1980 . The album was not as successful in the USA. The original ParadiseBird album in its entirety remains unreleased on compact disc. Track listing Side A The Letter The Box Tops song The Letter Wayne Carson Thompson 6 58 ParadiseBird Leng, May, Morris 6 35 He s A Burglar Leng, May, Morris 4 50 Side B Jealousy Leng, May, Morris 6 36 Right Place, Wrong Time Leng, May, Morris 5 07 Step Into The Love Line Leng, May 5 23 Paradise Found Leng, May, Morris 2 26 Personnel Amii Stewart vocals Gerry Morris bass guitar bass Adrian Sheppard drum kit drums Alan Murphy , Barry Leng guitar Pete Arnesen keyboard instrument keyboards Ken Freeman composer Ken Freeman synthesizer , brass instrument brass arrangements Ron Asprey saxophone Glyn Thomas percussion Jimmy Chambers, Charles Augins , Amii Stewart, Barry Leng backing vocalist background vocals Ian Hughes string section string arrangements ref http www.discogs.com Amii Stewart ParadiseBird release 1356273 Amii Stewart ParadiseBird Discogs.com see more images for complete musician listing Accessed 2 13 2010. ref Production Barry Leng producer References reflist Amii Stewart Category 1979 albums Category Amii Stewart albums ... more details
Taxobox name Emperor Bird of paradise image image caption Male displaying status NT status system IUCN3.1 regnum Animal ia phylum Chordate Chordata classis Bird Aves ordo Passeriformes familia Paradisaeidae genus Paradisaea species P. guilielmi binomial Paradisaea guilielmi binomial authority Jean Cabanis Cabanis , 1888 The Emperor Bird of paradise , Paradisaea guilielmi, also known as Emperor of Germany s Bird of paradise is a large, approximately 33 cm long, yellow and brown bird of paradise with a reddish brown Iris anatomy iris , bluish grey Beak bill and purplish brown legs. The male has an extensive dark emerald green face and throat, two very long tail wires and large white ornamental flank plumes. The female is almost similar to the male, but has an all brown plumage, smaller in size and has no ornamental plumes. The Emperor Bird of paradise is Endemism in birds endemic to Papua New Guinea . It is distributed in hill forests of the Huon Peninsula . The diet consists mainly of fruits, ficus fig s and arthropods . The name commemorates the last Emperor of Germany German Emperor and King of Prussia , Wilhelm II of Germany . On January 1888, the Emperor Bird of paradise was the last bird of paradise discovered by Carl Hunstein , who also found the Blue Bird of paradise on his journeys. These two species are the only Paradisaea that perform inverted display. Due to ongoing habitat loss, limited range and overhunting in some areas, the Emperor Bird of paradise is evaluated as Near Threatened on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. It is listed on Appendix II of CITES . References IUCN2006 assessors BirdLife International year 2004 id 16077 title Paradisaea guilielmi downloaded 9 May 2006 Database entry includes a brief justification of why this species is near threatened External links http www.birdlife.org datazone species index.html?action SpcHTMDetails.asp ... Red List Birds of paradise Category Paradisaea Category Birds of Papua New Guinea Paradisaeidae stub ... more details
Orphan date November 2009 Unreferenced date November 2009 Taxobox name Empress of Germany s Bird of Paradise status LC status system IUCN3.1 regnum Animal ia phylum Chordate Chordata classis Bird Aves ordo Passeriformes familia Paradisaeidae genus Paradisaea species Paradisaea raggiana P. raggiana subspecies P. r. augustavictoriae trinomial Paradisaea raggiana augustavictoriae trinomial authority Jean Cabanis Cabanis , 1888 The Empress of Germany s Bird of Paradise , Paradisaea raggiana augustavictoriae , is a large, up to 34 cm long, maroon brown bird in the family Paradisaeidae , one of three families of birds known as birds of paradise. The male has a dark emerald green throat, yellow crown, pale brown below and narrow yellow throat collar. It closely resembles the crimson plumed Raggiana Bird of Paradise , but has apricot orange rather than crimson flank plumes. The female is an overall brown bird with yellow head and dark brown face. The Empress of Germany s Bird of Paradise is distributed and Endemism in birds endemic to upper Ramu River and Huon Peninsula of northeastern Papua New Guinea . The male is polygamous and displays in communal lek. The diet consists mainly of fruits, insects and arthropods . One of the most heavily hunted birds of paradise in the plume hunting era, the Empress of Germany s Bird of Paradise was the first bird of paradise to breed in captivity. It was bred and observed by Prince K.S. Dharmakumarsinhji of India in 1940. The name commemorates the Germany German Empress and Queen consort of Prussia, Augusta Viktoria of Schleswig Holstein . In the wild, the Empress of Germany s Bird of Paradise is hybridized with the Emperor Bird of Paradise , with at least six specimens known. Thought to be a new species, the Hybrid biology hybrid was named Maria s Bird of Paradise , Paradisaea maria or Frau Reichenow s Bird of Paradise . DEFAULTSORT Empress Of Germany s Bird Of Paradise Category Paradisaea Category Birds of Papua New Guinea Paradisaeidae ... more details
Taxobox name Gilliard s Bird of Paradise image status regnum Animal ia phylum Chordate Chordata classis Bird Aves ordo Passeriformes familia Paradisaeidae genus Paradisaea species P. raggiana salvadorii br br x P. minor finschi synonyms Gilliard s Bird of Paradise is a bird in the family Paradisaeidae that is a hybrid biology hybrid between a Raggiana Bird of Paradise and Lesser Bird of Paradise . It is known from adult male specimens taken in the upper Baiyer Valley in Papua New Guinea . It was named after American ornithologist Ernest Thomas Gilliard by Clifford Brodie Frith Clifford Frith and Bruce Beehler . ref Frith & Beehler 1998 , p.506. ref Notes reflist References cite book title The Birds of Paradise author Frith, Clifford B. & Beehler, Bruce M. year 1998 publisher Oxford University Press location Oxford isbn 9780198548539 pages url Birds of paradise Category Paradisaea Category Hybrid birds of paradise Category Birds of New Guinea Paradisaeidae stub ... more details
Infobox film name Bird of Paradise image Bird of paradise 1932.jpg caption Film poster director King Vidor producer David O. Selznick br King Vidor writer Leonard Praskins br Wells Root starring Dolores del R o br Joel McCrea br John Halliday br Richard Skeets Gallagher br Bert Roach br Lon Chaney Jr ... director for Bird of Paradise was Max Steiner , who would later work on King Kong 1933 film King Kong 1933 and Gone with the Wind film Gone with the Wind 1939 . The native huts in this film were reused one year later in RKO s King Kong . ref cite book last1 Haver first1 Ronald authorlink Ronald ... Commons category Bird of Paradise 1932 film Imdb title id 0022689 title Bird of Paradise Internet Archive film id Bird of Paradise 1932 name Bird of Paradise Amg movie 5720 Bird of Paradise tcmdb title id 68793 title Bird of Paradise Busby Berkeley King Vidor Films DEFAULTSORT Bird Of Paradise ... language English language English budget Bird of Paradise is a 1932 Cinema of the United States American film directed by King Vidor , starring Dolores del R o , Joel McCrea , and Richard Skeets Gallagher ... 978 0517476659 ref Curiosities Bird of Paradise created a scandal when released due to a scene featuring ... ca Ocell del parad s pel l cula es Ave del Para so pel cula de 1932 eu Bird of Paradise 1932ko filma fr L Oiseau de paradis film, 1932 pt Bird of Paradise ... paradise. However, their idyll is smashed when the local volcano begins to erupt. The man discovers ... Reginald Simpson as O Fallon Napoleon Pukui as The King Agostino Borgato as Medicine Man Sofia ... in the film. ref http dawnsdeloresdelrio.blogspot.com 2010 05 bird of paradise1932 pre code.html Bird of Paradise, 1932 pre code ref Employing an elaborate pantomime, it is Dolores Del Rio s mimicking of a bird in flight, that implies her freedom, whatever it is, is to be strictly construed ... to be simple paradise, it appears that they have escaped the dominion of her father, but that is not so ... more details
Taxobox name Blood s Bird of Paradise image status regnum Animal ia phylum Chordate Chordata classis Bird Aves ordo Passeriformes familia Paradisaeidae genus Paradisaea species P. raggiana salvadorii br br x P. rudolphi margaritae synonyms Paradisaea bloodi Tom Iredale Iredale , 1948 ref Iredale 1948 . ref Blood s Bird of Paradise , also known as Captain Blood s Bird of Paradise , is a bird in the family Paradisaeidae that is a hybrid biology hybrid between a Raggiana Bird of Paradise and Blue Bird of Paradise . It is named after Captain N.B. Blood who obtained the specimen through his travels in the East. History Only one specimen, an adult male, of this hybrid is known. It comes from the Mount Hagen area in Papua New Guinea and is held in the Australian Museum in Sydney . ref Frith & Beehler 1998 , p.505. ref Notes reflist References cite book title The Birds of Paradise author Frith, Clifford B. & Beehler, Bruce M. year 1998 publisher Oxford University Press location Oxford isbn 9780198548539 pages url cite journal author Iredale, Tom year 1948 title A check list of the birds of paradise and bowerbirds journal Australian Zoologist volume 11 issue pages 161 189 Birds of paradise Category Paradisaea Category Hybrid birds of paradise Category Birds of New Guinea Paradisaeidae stub ... more details
Taxobox name Schodde s Bird of Paradise image status regnum Animal ia phylum Chordate Chordata classis Bird Aves ordo Passeriformes familia Paradisaeidae genus species Parotia l. lawesii br br x Paradisaea rudolphi margaritae Schodde s Bird of Paradise is a bird in the family Paradisaeidae that is an intergeneric hybrid biology hybrid between a Lawes s Parotia and Blue Bird of Paradise . History Only one specimen, an adult female, is known of this hybrid. It is held in the Australian Museum and comes from Trepikama in the Baiyer Valley of Papua New Guinea . It was named by Clifford Brodie Frith Clifford and Dawn Frith after Australian ornithologist Richard Schodde . ref Frith & Beehler 1998 , p.515. ref Notes reflist References cite book title The Birds of Paradise author Frith, Clifford B. & Beehler, Bruce M. year 1998 publisher Oxford University Press location Oxford isbn 9780198548539 pages url Birds of paradise Category Hybrid birds of paradise Category Birds of New Guinea Paradisaeidae stub ... more details
Taxobox name Duivenbode s Bird of Paradise image status regnum Animal ia phylum Chordate Chordata classis Bird Aves ordo Passeriformes familia Paradisaeidae genus Paradisaea species P. guilielmi br br x P. minor finschi synonyms Paradisea duivenbodei Duivenbode s Bird of Paradise is a bird in the family Paradisaeidae that is a hybrid biology hybrid between the Emperor Bird of Paradise and Lesser Bird of Paradise . History It is known from a single adult male specimen held in the Mus um national d histoire naturelle National Natural History Museum in Paris . Its provenance is uncertain it is said to come from an island in Cenderawasih Bay Geelvink Bay , western New Guinea , but was probably purchased as a trade skin there and is more likely to have derived ultimately from the Huon Peninsula of north eastern New Guinea where the Emperor Bird of Paradise is found. ref Frith & Beehler 1998 , pp.504 505. ref Notes reflist References cite book title The Birds of Paradise author Frith, Clifford B. & Beehler, Bruce M. year 1998 publisher Oxford University Press location Oxford isbn 9780198548539 pages url Birds of paradise Category Paradisaea Category Hybrid birds of paradise Category Birds of New Guinea Paradisaeidae stub ... more details
Taxobox name Lupton s Bird of Paradise image status regnum Animal ia phylum Chordate Chordata classis Bird Aves ordo Passeriformes familia Paradisaeidae genus Paradisaea species P. apoda novaeguineae br br x P. raggiana salvadorii synonyms Paradisaea apoda luptoni Percy Lowe Lowe , 1923 ref Lowe 1923 . ref Lupton s Bird of Paradise is a bird in the family Paradisaeidae that is a hybrid biology hybrid between a Greater Bird of Paradise and Raggiana Bird of Paradise . It was described by Percy Lowe in 1923 as a subspecies of the Greater Bird of Paradise, though he also noted the possibility of hybridisation. ref name Frith & Beehler 1998, p.506 Frith & Beehler 1998 , p.506. ref History This hybrid is known from many adult male specimens taken from the Fly River region of southern New Guinea . ref name Frith & Beehler 1998, p.506 Notes reflist References cite book title The Birds of Paradise author Frith, Clifford B. & Beehler, Bruce M. year 1998 publisher Oxford University Press location Oxford isbn 9780198548539 pages url cite journal author Lowe, P.R. year 1923 title Description of Paradisea apoda luptoni journal Bulletin of the British Ornithologists Club volume 43 issue pages 10 Birds of paradise Category Paradisaea Category Hybrid birds of paradise Category Birds of New Guinea Paradisaeidae stub ... more details
Taxobox name Wilhelmina s Bird of Paradise image status regnum Animal ia phylum Chordate Chordata classis Bird Aves ordo Passeriformes familia Paradisaeidae genus species Lophorina superba br br x Cicinnurus magnificus synonyms Lamprothorax wilhelminae Adolf Bernard Meyer Meyer , 1894 Wilhelmina s Bird of Paradise , also known as Wilhelmina s Riflebird , is a bird in the family Paradisaeidae that is presumed to be an intergeneric hybrid biology hybrid between a Superb Bird of Paradise and Magnificent Bird of Paradise . History Three adult male specimens are known of this hybrid, held in the American Museum of Natural History , Naturalis Royal Natural History Museum of the Netherlands , and the Staatliches Museum f r Tierkunde Dresden Dresden Natural History Museum . Two of the specimens come from the Arfak Mountains of north western New Guinea , while the other is of unknown provenance. The bird was named as a species by Adolf Bernard Meyer in 1894 after Wilhelmina of the Netherlands . ref Frith & Beehler 1998 , pp.513 514. ref Notes reflist References cite book title The Birds of Paradise author Frith, Clifford B. & Beehler, Bruce M. year 1998 publisher Oxford University Press location Oxford isbn 9780198548539 pages url Birds of paradise Category Hybrid birds of paradise Category Birds of New Guinea Paradisaeidae stub nl Wilhelminaparadijsvogel ... more details
Taxobox name Stresemann s Bird of Paradise image status regnum Animal ia phylum Chordate Chordata classis Bird Aves ordo Passeriformes familia Paradisaeidae genus species Parotia carolae br br x Lophorina superba synonyms Lophorina superba pseudoparotia Erwin Stresemann Stresemann , 1934 Stresemann s Bird of Paradise is a bird in the family Paradisaeidae that is an intergeneric hybrid biology hybrid between a Carola s Parotia and Superb Bird of Paradise . History Only one female specimen is known of this hybrid, held in the Museum f r Naturkunde Berlin Natural History Museum , coming from Mount Hunstein in the Sepik district of north eastern New Guinea . It was first identified as a female Carola s Parotia in 1923 and later, in 1934, described as a subspecies of the Superb Bird of Paradise it is named for its original identifier and later describer, German ornithologist Erwin Stresemann . ref Frith & Beehler 1998 , pp.514 515. ref Notes reflist References cite book title The Birds of Paradise author Frith, Clifford B. & Beehler, Bruce M. year 1998 publisher Oxford University Press location Oxford isbn 9780198548539 pages url Birds of paradise Category Hybrid birds of paradise Category Birds of New Guinea Paradisaeidae stub ... more details
Taxobox name Ruys Bird of Paradise image status regnum Animal ia phylum Chordate Chordata classis Bird Aves ordo Passeriformes familia Paradisaeidae genus species Cicinnurus m. magnificus br br x Paradisaea m. minor synonyms Neoparadisaea ruysi Eduard Daniel van Oort van Oort , 1906 Ruys Bird of Paradise is a bird in the family Paradisaeidae that is presumed to be an intergeneric hybrid biology hybrid between a Magnificent Bird of Paradise and Lesser Bird of Paradise . History Only one adult male specimen is known of this hybrid it is held in the Naturalis Netherlands Natural History Museum in Leiden , and comes from near Warsembo, on the west coast of Cenderawasih Bay Geelvink Bay , in north western New Guinea . ref Frith & Beehler 1998 , pp.518 519. ref Notes reflist References cite book title The Birds of Paradise author Frith, Clifford B. & Beehler, Bruce M. year 1998 publisher Oxford University Press location Oxford isbn 9780198548539 pages url Birds of paradise Category Hybrid birds of paradise Category Birds of New Guinea Paradisaeidae stub ... more details
Taxobox name Elliot s Bird of Paradise image status regnum Animal ia phylum Chordate Chordata classis Bird Aves ordo Passeriformes familia Paradisaeidae genus species Epimachus f. fastuosus br br x Astrapia nigra synonyms Epimachus ellioti Ward, 1873 Astrapimachus ellioti Ernst Mayr Mayr , 1941 Elliot s Bird of Paradise is a bird in the family Paradisaeidae that is presumed to be an intergeneric hybrid biology hybrid between a Black Sicklebill and Arfak Astrapia . Despite commonly being considered a hybrid, a minority of ornithologists dispute this claim specimens are considerably smaller than the latter two species. It was first described by Edward Ward in 1873. History Only two adult male specimens are known of this bird, held in the Natural History Museum British Natural History Museum and the Staatliches Museum f r Tierkunde Dresden Dresden Natural History Museum , and presumably deriving from the Bird s Head Peninsula Vogelkop Peninsula of north western New Guinea . ref Frith & Beehler 1998 , pp.508 509. ref Notes Reflist References cite book title The Birds of Paradise author Frith, Clifford B. & Beehler, Bruce M. year 1998 publisher Oxford University Press location Oxford isbn 9780198548539 pages url Birds of paradise DEFAULTSORT Elliot s Bird Of Paradise Category Hybrid birds of paradise Category Birds of New Guinea Paradisaeidae stub ... more details
Taxobox name Wilson s Bird of paradise status NT status system IUCN3.1 image Wilson s Bird of Paradise Best.jpg image width 230px image caption Male regnum Animal ia phylum Chordate Chordata classis Bird Aves ordo Passeriformes familia Paradisaeidae genus Cicinnurus species C. respublica binomial Cicinnurus respublica binomial authority Charles Lucien Bonaparte Bonaparte , 1850 synonyms Diphyllodes respublica The Wilson s Bird of paradise , Cicinnurus respublica , is a small, up to 21 cm long, passerine bird of the Paradisaeidae family. The male is a red and black bird of paradise with a yellow ... gleams bright silver. An Indonesia n Endemism in birds endemic , the Wilson s Bird of paradise is distributed ... the bird in honor of Wilson, by several months. Thirteen years later, in 1863, the Germany German zoologist Heinrich Agathon Bernstein discovered the home grounds of the Wilson s Bird of paradise ... s Bird of paradise is evaluated as Near Threatened on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. It is listed on Appendix II of CITES . Trivia The first footage of the Wilson s Bird of paradise ever to be filmed was recorded in 1996 by David Attenborough for the BBC documentary Attenborough in Paradise . He did so by dropping leaves on the forest floor, which irrated the bird into clearing them ... simple Wilson s Bird of Paradise su Cendrawasih Botak sv Wilsons paradisf gel ... is naked blue with black double cross pattern on it. The female is a brownish bird with bare blue crown. In the field the blue bare skin on the crown of the bird s head is so vivid that it is clearly ... idealist, who described the bird from a badly damaged trade specimen purchased by British ornithologist ... 146711 0 IUCN Red List http www.educatedearth.net video.php?id 4952 BBC Video Segment Wilson s Bird of Paradise http www.rdb.or.id detailbird.php?id 532 Red Data Book http www.pbase.com image 37557333 Alternate Image PBase Birds of paradise Category Cicinnurus Category Birds of Western New Guinea ... more details
Taxobox name Bensbach s Bird of paradise image status regnum Animal ia phylum Chordate Chordata classis Bird Aves ordo Passeriformes familia Paradisaeidae genus species Ptiloris m. magnificus br br x Paradisaea m. minor synonyms Janthothorax bensbachi Johann B ttikofer B ttikofer , 1894 Bensbach s Bird of paradise , also known as Bensbach s Riflebird , is a bird in the family Paradisaeidae that is an intergeneric hybrid biology hybrid between a Magnificent Riflebird and Lesser Bird of paradise . History Only one adult male specimen is known of this hybrid, held in the Naturalis Netherlands Natural History Museum and coming from the Arfak Mountains of north western New Guinea . It is named after J. Bensbach, Dutch Resident at Ternate , who presented the specimen to the museum. ref Frith & Beehler 1998 , p.517. ref ref Iredale 1950 , p.56. ref Notes reflist References cite book title The Birds of Paradise author Frith, Clifford B. & Beehler, Bruce M. year 1998 publisher Oxford University Press location Oxford isbn 9780198548539 pages url cite book title Birds of Paradise and Bower Birds author Iredale, Tom year 1950 publisher Georgian House location Melbourne isbn pages url Birds of paradise Category Hybrid birds of paradise Category Birds of New Guinea Paradisaeidae stub ... more details
Taxobox name Maria s Bird of Paradise image status regnum Animal ia phylum Chordate Chordata classis Bird Aves ordo Passeriformes familia Paradisaeidae genus Paradisea species P. guilielmi br br x P. raggiana augustaevictoriae synonyms Paradisea maria Anton Reichenow Reichenow , 1894 Maria s Bird of Paradise , also known as Frau Reichenow s Bird of Paradise or Mrs Reichenow s Bird of Paradise , is a bird in the family Paradisaeidae that is a presumptive hybrid biology hybrid between an Emperor Bird of Paradise and Raggiana Bird of Paradise . It was named for the wife of the describer, German ornithologist Anton Reichenow . Description Its measurements are largely intermediate between those of the parent taxa. ref name Frith & Beehler 1998, p.504 Frith & Beehler 1998 , p.504. ref History It was named as a supposed new species in 1894 before being largely accepted as a hybrid in the early 20th century. At least six adult male and one female specimens are known, from Sattelberg and the Finisterre Range of the Huon Peninsula in north eastern New Guinea . The specimens are held by the American Museum of Natural History in New York City New York and the Museum f r Naturkunde Berlin Natural History Museum . ref name Frith & Beehler 1998, p.504 Notes reflist References cite book title The Birds of Paradise author Frith, Clifford B. & Beehler, Bruce M. year 1998 publisher Oxford University Press location Oxford isbn 9780198548539 pages url Birds of paradise Category Hybrid birds of paradise Category Birds of New Guinea Category Paradisaea Paradisaeidae stub ... more details
Taxobox name Wonderful Bird of Paradise image status regnum Animal ia phylum Chordate Chordata classis Bird Aves ordo Passeriformes familia Paradisaeidae genus species Seleucidis melanoleuca br br x Paradisaea minor synonyms Paradisaea mirabilis Anton Reichenow Reichenow , 1901 Janthothorax mirabilis Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild Rothschild , 1903 Quesoparens mirabilis ref Iredale 1950 , p.v. ref The Wonderful Bird of Paradise , also known as Reichenow s Riflebird , ref name Iredale 1950, p.56 Iredale 1950 , p.56. ref is a bird in the family Paradisaeidae that is an intergeneric hybrid biology hybrid between a Twelve wired Bird of Paradise and Lesser Bird of Paradise . History Five adult male specimens are known of this hybrid, held in the American Museum of Natural History and the Museum f r Naturkunde Berlin Natural History Museum and coming from Sorong Regency Sorong in the Bird s Head Peninsula Vogelkop Peninsula of north western New Guinea , Madang on the north eastern coast of New Guinea, as well as other unknown localities. ref name Iredale 1950, p.56 ref Frith & Beehler 1998 , p.516. ref Notes reflist References cite book title The Birds of Paradise author Frith, Clifford B. & Beehler, Bruce M. year 1998 publisher Oxford University Press location Oxford isbn 9780198548539 pages url cite book title Birds of Paradise and Bower Birds author Iredale, Tom year 1950 publisher Georgian House location Melbourne isbn pages url Birds of paradise Category Hybrid birds of paradise Category Birds of New Guinea Paradisaeidae stub ... more details
Taxobox Example.jpg name Superb Bird of paradise status LC status system IUCN3.1 image Lophorina superba by Bowdler Sharpe.jpg image width regnum Animal ia phylum Chordate Chordata classis Bird Aves ordo Passeriformes familia Paradisaeidae genus Lophorina genus authority Louis Jean Pierre Vieillot Vieillot , 1816 species L. superba binomial Lophorina superba binomial authority Thomas Pennant Pennant , 1781 The Superb Bird of paradise Lophorina superba is a small, approximately 26 cm long, passerine bird of the Paradisaeidae Birds of Paradise family. It is the only member in the genus Lophorina . The male is black with an iridescent green crown, blue green breast shield and a long velvety black erectile cape covering his back. The female is a reddish brown bird with brownish barred buff below. The young is similar to the female. The Superb Bird of paradise is distributed throughout rainforests of New Guinea . Courtship display The species has an unusually low population of females, and competition amongst males for mates is intensely fierce. This has led the species to have one of the most bizarre and elaborate courtship displays in the avian world. After carefully and meticulously preparing a dance floor even scrubbing the dirt or branch smooth with leaves , the male first attracts a female with a loud call. After the curious female approaches, his folded black feather cape ... to mate. Although heavily hunted for its plumes, the Superb Bird of paradise is one of the most common and widespread birds of paradise in New Guinea forests. The Superb Bird of paradise is evaluated ... search details.php?species 51194 IUCN Red List YouTube SK4us0 pAa8 Birds of paradise DEFAULTSORT Superb Bird Of Paradise Category Paradisaeidae Category Genera of birds Category Birds of Western New ... Bird of Paradise sv Kragparadisf gel ... transforming the frontal view of the bird into a spectacular ellipse shaped creature that rhythmically ... more details
Taxobox name Raggiana Bird of paradise status LC status system IUCN3.1 image Raggiana Bird of Paradise wild 5.jpg regnum Animal ia phylum Chordate Chordata classis Bird Aves ordo Passeriformes familia ... Lutley Sclater P.L. Sclater , 1873 synonyms Gerrus paradisaea ref name encyclo The Raggiana Bird of paradise , Paradisaea raggiana also known as Count Raggi s Bird of paradise , is a large bird in the bird of paradise family biology family Paradisaeidae . It is distributed widely in southern and northeastern ... Francis Raggi of Genoa . The Raggiana Bird of paradise is the List of national birds national bird of Papua ... known as the Empress of Germany s Bird of paradise , has apricot orange plumes. Behaviour Diet Its diet ... Trees Visited Predominantly by Birds of Paradise journal Emu volume 96 issue 2 pages 81 88 ref Breeding The breeding system of the Raggiana Bird of paradise is polygamy . Males congregate in Lek .... ref cite journal last Frith first C.B. title Displays of Count Raggi s Bird of Paradise Paradisaea ... of a Raggiana Bird of Paradise journal The Wilson Bulletin volume 106 issue 3 pages 522 530 ref Status ..., the Raggiana Bird of paradise is evaluated as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species ... species raggiana birdparadise paradisaea raggiana Raggiana Bird of paradise Paradisaea raggiana videos and photos at the http ibc.lynxeds.com Internet Bird Collection Birds of paradise Category Paradisaea ... guinea national bird ref Papua New Guinea national rugby league team The Kumuls is also the nickname ... drab maroonish brown bird with no long tail feathers. The ornamental flank plumes vary ... ref The bird nest nest is a bowl shaped structure composed of leaves and leaf pieces, stems, ferns .... The female usually a clutch eggs clutch of one to two usually two pinkish buff bird egg eggs . The avian .... As in all polygamous birds of paradise, the female alone assumes all incubation duties. ref cite ... concern Les Beletsky. Bird songs from around the world External links commons Paradisaea raggiana http ... more details
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