This image of Victoria’s Riflebird male, Paluma Range National Park, Queensland, Australia by Martin Willis/Minden Pictures is available for licensing today. All orders ship with UPS, FedEx or DHL and will arrive directly to your home or office. A tracking number will be emailed to you as soon as the order leaves our studio so you can track it online. All orders ship express and usually arrive within 4-5 days from the shipping date.
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.
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.
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.
More recently, they have occasionally been considered pests for damaging cultivated fruit. While riflebirds have been shown to use habitat adjacent to rainforest, their reliance on rainforest leaves them vulnerable to forest clearing. The four species of riflebird are classified as being of “Least Concern” according to the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. The population trends for P. paradisea and victoriae are reported as declining but not approaching the threshold for vulnerable status. When feeding their young, female riflebirds will catch proportionally more arthropods than fruit to supply their growing young with foods rich in proteins and lipids. This has also been suggested as the reason for female riflebirds having larger bills than males.
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Unframed rolled canvas orders will arrive rolled inside a protective tube with an extra 1.5″ white canvas on all sides so you can easily frame it locally. Riflebirds are found in rainforests of eastern Australia and New Guinea up to 1500m above sea level. Victoria’s riflebird has been recorded in eucalypt and melaleuca-dominated wet sclerophyll forests and woodlands, the landward edges of mangroves and swamp woodlands and occasionally the temperate Nothofagus forests. The female builds and tends the nest alone, and lays a clutch of one or two eggs, which incubate for up to eighteen days. She also feeds the nestlings alone until they leave the nest about fifteen days after hatching.
Birds of Paradise: Paradisaeidae
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- As Australia become more arid over the last several million years, the birds of paradise withdrew to the regional rainforests of New Guinea and eastern Australia.
- More recently, they have occasionally been considered pests for damaging cultivated fruit.
- Unframed rolled canvas orders will arrive rolled inside a protective tube with an extra 1.5″ white canvas on all sides so you can easily frame it locally.
- Victoria’s riflebird has been recorded in eucalypt and melaleuca-dominated wet sclerophyll forests and woodlands, the landward edges of mangroves and swamp woodlands and occasionally the temperate Nothofagus forests.
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As Australia become more arid over the last several million years, the birds of paradise withdrew to the regional rainforests of New Guinea and eastern Australia. Ptiloris arose from this residual stock in Australia, from which one member (P. magnifica) has since spread to New Guinea. The separation in time of the Australian and the New Guinea P. magnifica determined genetically corresponds to the separation of Australia and New Guinea geographically (i.e. Torres Strait).
Diet was examined by a combination of observations and faecal analysis. Riflebirds were found with highest frequency in mature rainforest sites. Within these areas, males were seen to defend only the immediate vicinity of display posts. Home ranges were considerably larger, as birds moved longer distances to reach fruiting trees, especially during the non-breeding season. Diet during the breeding season was heavily dominated by fruit, even though a large proportion of foraging time was spent seeking invertebrates in the rainforest understorey. Overall, this species exhibits a dispersed, non-territorial type of display dispersion, as do other birds of paradise with a mixed diet.
Victoria’s Riflebird Photos
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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.
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Victoria’s geweervogel – Victoria’s Riflebird (Ptiloris victoriae) in Australia by Graeme Guy.
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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.
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