Author: Alfonzo Bissonnette

Both amateur and professional naturalists, for example, can acquire, visualize, measure, and analyze animal sounds with a free version of the Cornell Lab’s proprietary interactive sound analysis software, Raven. The sicklebill’s diet consists …

Lawes’s parotia, is a medium-sized passerine of the bird-of-paradise family, Paradisaeidae. Occasionally, the eastern parotia is considered a subspecies of P. lawesii. …

Until recently, I had not photographed any bird-of-paradise in the wild. My friend Steve Wilson photographed the wild displaying Lesser Bird-of-Paradise during our 1983 visit to Papua New Guinea. …

Known predators of the superb bird-of-paradise include birds of prey and snakes. Structurally assisted super black in colourful peacock …

After laying all the eggs the female incubates them for two weeks and cares for the babies after …

My gaze investigates their fragile beauty, the colors, the shapes they feature to appear beautiful to the watchful eyes of their mates. A small window opened on a world on …

Here at Kidadl, we have carefully created lots of interesting family-friendly animal facts for everyone to discover! Learn more about some other birds from our rook facts and vesper sparrow facts pages. …

This holds true since it only lives on the islands of Batanta and Waigeo, off West Papua. It’s worth noting that the astonishing Wilson’s Bird-of-paradise garners full attention from those who encounter it wholly regardless …

The Curl-crested Manucode, Manucodia comrii is a compact and large, approximately 43cm long, bird of paradise with glossy purple, black and green plumage, red iris and crinkled yellowish-green upper breast …

Our well-appointed hides open up an intimate window of observation into the secretive lives of West Papua’s many habitual ground-dwellers as well as its terrestrially …