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Victoria’s riflebirds are found on the Atherton Tablelands of Queensland, Australia, from just south of Cooktown to just south of Townsville. Paradise riflebirds are found in southeast Queensland and northeast New South Wales, Australia. Males have an iridescent purple sheen plumage, which becomes more blue-green on the head and more bronze on the lower breast. The throat is velvety black with a metallic green and blue triangular patch in the center. Females have a pale eyebrow, and the buff underparts are faintly barred with brown. Get hand painted museum quality reproduction of “Ptiloris Victoriae Victoria Rifle Bird of Paradise” by William M. Hart.
Due to shipping restraints, many of our framed, stretched, and oversize paintings may take 6-21 days for arrival depending on the safest route determined by the postal service. Each canvas reproduction may vary slightly in brush details due to the nature of being hand painted, so no two paintings are the same. The birds of paradise are thought to have originated 24 – 30 million years ago and belong to the radiation of passerines that occurred in Australia during the last 60 million years.
Ptiloris victoriaeVictoria’s riflebird
As well as insects, they eat fruits from the trees, some which they peel by holding the fruit with one foot and removing the skin with their bill.
Unframed paintings are covered with a special protective film, are gently rolled and then placed inside a strong specially designed tube. When purchasing a painting on its own, it will arrive rolled inside a secure tube with an extra 1.5″ of white canvas on all sides so you can easily frame it in any local frame shop. When the male begins to display, he erects the feathers of his throat and sides to accentuate the bright colours of his plumage in the shafts of sunlight that pierce the dimness of the rainforest.
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Stretched, Gallery Wrapped and Framed paintings are covered with protective bubble wrap, separated by foam board and then carefully put into the cardboard box. If you are planning to frame your painting yourself, use an existing frame, or frame it locally, you may choose to order your painting with a stretching service, meaning that it will arrive mounted on wooden bars. Note that for safety reasons we can only frame up to a certain size. Once the maximum size is reached the framing option is automatically disabled. We only hire qualified artists with advanced degrees in Fine Arts who have completed a dissertation in European or American art.
- Males can use the same display sites for many successive years.
- Adult males are larger in P. magnifica (31 cm long, 160g; P. intercedens is similarly sized), smaller in P. paradisea , and smallest in P. victoriae .
- Habitat use within the mosaic was assessed by a series of point surveys along transects through each habitat.
- These sizes reflect popular and readily available pre-made frame sizes.
- Riflebirds are stocky medium-sized passerines with a small head and a characteristic long slender decurved bill.
The few published studies on the diet of riflebirds indicate that riflebirds are predominantly insectivorous but will take fruit and seeds when available. Riflebirds are mostly arboreal with a preference for lower strata but will forage on or close to the ground. They climb up and down tree trunks and hop along horizontal branches searching for insects and their larvae, which they extract from under the bark, in crevices and in epiphytes using their chisel-like bills. Riflebirds will swallow fruit whole or hold fruit between their foot and a branch and tear pieces off with their bill. While riflebirds are mostly solitary, small flocks can be seen on fruiting trees when in season.
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Once the maximum size is reached, the framing option is automatically disabled. 1st Art Gallery offers the option to receive your painting ready to hang or rolled in a tube. The artist will add 3 inches (7.5 cm) of extra paint “bleed” to every 4 sides of the canvas. There will still be 1.5 inches of white canvas around all 4 sides of the canvas. The light was low, but the 5 minute display of this bird-of-paradise will never be forgotten.
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