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But then all birds from the Paradise family have developed some of the most bizarre mating rituals. So Today, I have something a little different, I’ve written up a longer piece that goes deep into this crazy family of birds, which you can find here. This bird that dances like a ballerina is waiting. For some reason female Twelve-wired Birds-of-Paradise preferred to be wooed via tactile sensation.
- However, a decline in numbers has been noted, and many areas of coastal habitat has been altered by human activity for logging, agriculture, and settlements.
- For a long time, these feathers were a bit of a mystery.
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- Males use their 12 flank plume ‘wires’ to make contact with the female by brushing across the female’s face and foreparts.
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Meanwhile, the adult female’s underparts have uniformed black bars. Both sexes exhibit similarities though in some of their body parts like the eyes, feet, and legs, which are both pinkish. It is also found on the Indonesian island of Salawati, located immediately off the western end of New Guinea. Processing time before shipment is 1-3 business days.
The bill is long and tapered, the eyes are red, and the legs and feet are tan, and bare of feathers. The female bird brown above with a black head, and barred underparts. Its feet are strong, large-clawed and pink in color. They are found in flat lowlands and swamp forests, particularly throughout New Guinea and Salawati Island, Indonesia. The twelve-wired bird-of-paradise is evaluated as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, and is listed on Appendix II of CITES.
In fact, some argued the feathers weren’t even supposed to look that way, that they had been damaged when they got packed for shipping. These are fine art prints, not cheap posters — produced with the highest quality inks, thick matte paper, and Giclee printing method. The image scans used are high resolution and printed at full quality. Although custom requests are welcome, please note that the print sizes are listed to the largest possible size for each image. Noticeably different from its female breed, the adult male’s upper parts including its head has velvety black color.
The Twelve-wired bird-of-paradise , is a species of medium-sized, approximately 33 cm long, velvet black and yellow bird-of-paradise. The male has a red iris, long black bill and rich yellow plumes along his flanks. From the rear of these plumes emerge twelve blackish, wire-like filaments, which bend back near their bases to sweep forward over the bird’s hindquarters. The female is a brown bird with black-barred buffy underparts. Their feet are strong, large-clawed and pink in color.
Most of the birds make a name for themselves with their plumage. It’s unique and has the charisma to make us, humans, keep our eyes on them. This coat is splashed with different hues or dyed in a single color.
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From the rear of these plumes come twelve blackish, wire-like filaments, which bend back near their bases to sweep forward over the birds hindquarters. As you can see, it does have a brilliant lemon-yellow lower portion, it’s just paired with a jet-black head and wings. Its most distinguishing feature, though, are those twelve bent back wires it has for a tail. For a long time, these feathers were a bit of a mystery. You see, like all Birds-of-Paradise, these little guys make their home in the famously impenetrable cloud forests of New Guinea. When the first skins reached Europe, ornithologists had no idea what to make of those twelve bent plumes.
The twelve-wired bird-of-paradise is a medium-sized, approximately 33 cm long, velvet black and yellow bird-of-paradise. The male bird is 13 inches long, and bisected in two contrasting colors. The front half, including wings, head, and upper chest and back are a velvety black, and marked above in purple iridescence; the rear half is a bright, velvety yellow. During mating season the bird “fluffs” up, widening the yellow flanks, and spreading out a ruffle of chest feathers which are tipped in an iridescent green. To further gain the female’s attention, the male prances before her with twelve thin, wire-like plumes jutting from the base of its tail, from which the species gets its name.
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The female twelve-wired bird-of-paradise can be distinguished from its male with its color. On its upper part, it is mostly brown and its underparts have uniformed black bars. As said, the adult male’s upper parts including its head have velvety black color. But no, that’s exactly what those feathers look like on the living bird.
To complicate matters further, those wires aren’t even its tail. Rather, they’re extended plumes that come off its yellow flanks. And so, for over a century the mystery went unsolved, until David Attenborough came along and managed to film the bird’s mating ritual. Featured in this article are both its male and female birds. You will find out their differences when you browse through the photos.
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The first successful captive breeding program was at Singapore’s Jurong Bird Park, in 2001. The sole representative of the monotypic genus Seleucidis, the twelve-wired bird-of-paradise is a bird of lowland forests. The male displays on an exposed vertical perch with his breast-shield flared. Their diet consists mainly of fruits and arthropods in addition to frogs, insects, and nectar. The display dance of the Twelve-wired bird of paradise is called “Wire-wipe Display” and it is performed by males to attract females by showing their flank plumes and bare pigmented thighs.
This is a very detailed illustration image, and while I wish I could have afforded a bigger size, I can easily read and enjoy it at what I ordered! Share this article so others will get to know about the twelve-wired bird-of-paradise too. Emerging from the rear of these plumes are twelve wire-like filaments that are black in color. These bends back toward their bases sweeping forward over their hindquarters.
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