Like others of its family, the male has elaborate breeding plumage used to impress females. The breeding system of the Raggiana bird-of-paradise is polygamy. Within the …
King Bird-of-paradise
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They have a narrow, dark green iridescent breast band with whitish lower breast, and green-tipped …
Birds of Paradise : Paradisaeidae
As we progressed with the coding, we realized that there should be a differentiation in the coding for “common”, such as less common, common and very common birds. However, this would require reliable quantitative …
Taxonomy browser Semioptera wallacii
The standardwing bird-of-paradise is medium-sized, approximately 28 cm long, and olive brown. The male has a gloss violet-and-lilac coloured crown and emerald-green breast shield. Its most striking features are …
Magnificent bird-of-paradise, Diphyllodes magnificus Magnificent paradisea, Paradisea magnifica Illustration drawn and engraved by Richard Polydore
When the male is about to copulate the core female, other females nearby will spring from their perches to attack and shoe off the female, and the male is discouraged …
Greater lophorina Wikipedia
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The entire process of courtship, including the dance, is prolonged and may take …
His Beautiful Violet-Blue Plumage Is Enhanced To Perfection By Pure White Spectacles And His Breathtaking Dance Moves Meet The Blue Bird-of-Paradise!
Being distinctively different from other similar species, the male bird is richly decorated. They have bright blue wings and plumes with the overall appearance of the …
World Birds Taxonomic List: Genera, species, and subspecies with
Arguably one of the more drab members of its family, the male bronze parotia has a blackish body in general with a conspicuous oily bronze sheen, more greenish in the neck area, that …
Parotia lawesii
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Like most birds of paradise, male Lawes’s parotia are polygamous. The few eggs that have been studied were about 33 x 24 mm in size, but these were possibly small specimens. The bird’s home was discovered …