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With few specimens and no known wild population, most taxonomic assessments over the last century have treated P. berlepschi as a subspecies of Parotia carolae Meyer, 1894. Following discovery of its geographical home in 2005, most authorities returned to giving P. berlepschi full species status. However, evidence supporting the delineation of P. berlepschi from P. carolae has not yet been fully articulated in the literature. Here, we assess phenotypic differentiation and the taxonomic status of P. berlepschi relative to P. carolae based on specimens and recordings of wild birds. With regard to external appearance and voice, which are important intersexual signals among polygynous birds-of-paradise, our analysis confirms that P. berlepschi is well-differentiated from P. carolae and should be treated as specifically distinct.
“The blue lotus plays a role in the Egyptian story of Creation, where the sun god, Ra, emerged from one at the very Beginning. The opening and closing of the lotus in the daylight and nighttime hours is said to be symbolic of the cycle of the sun through the heavens. Plumage of the females typically blends well with their habitat, unlike the bright attractive colors found on the males. Distinctive courtship phenotype of the Vogelkop Superb Bird-of-Paradise Lophorina niedda Mayr, 1930 confirms new species status. Oviparous animals are female animals that lay their eggs, with little or no other embryonic development within the mother.
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The bronze parotia , also known as the Foja parotia, Berlepsch’s parotia or Berlepsch’s six-wired bird-of-paradise, is a species of bird-of-paradise, in the family Paradisaeidae. A male bronze parotia bird of paradise on the perch at his display court, holding a leaf fragment in his bill as part of his display. The breeding land and fresh water avifauna that adorns West Papua with a nearly mythical status amounts to 595 species. This total includes 288 regional New Guinea endemics and 65 species whose distribution is entirely confined to West Papua alone.
- Evidence for differentiation in courtship behavior is inconclusive and requires further study.
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Bronze Parotia (Parotia berlepschi) Паротия Берлепша
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Previously known only from four specimens, the home of this little known bird-of-paradise was located in 1985 by the American scientist Jared Diamond at the Foja Mountains of Papua, Indonesia. The first photographs of them were taken during the rediscovery. The diet of the birds-of-paradise is dominated by fruit and arthropods. The ratio of the two food types varies by species, with fruit predominating in some species, and arthropods dominating the diet in others.
The main predator of the Bird of Paradise is the humans that live in settlements in the same habitat. Birds of Paradise are also being continually threatened by deforestation and habitat loss. The Bronze parotia , also known as the Foja parotia, Berlepsch’s parotia or Berlepsch’s six-wired bird-of-paradise, is a species of bird-of-paradise. It resembles and is often considered to be a subspecies of the Queen Carola’s parotia, but it differs from the latter by having more heavily bronzed plumage and no eye ring.
It resembles and is often considered to be a subspecies of Carola’s parotia, but a high majority of authorities support its specific status. The species share many differentiated features, though the Carola’s parotia is more studied than the elusive bronze parotia. The species was first described by Otto Kleinschmidt in 1897.
Description The bronze parotia also known as the Foja parotia, Berlepsch’s parotia or Berlepsch’s six-wired bird-of-paradise, is a bird-of-paradise. Of paramount interest naturally, are the 26 species of bird-of-paradise that occur in West Papua, six of which occor only here and nowhere else on Earth. Among these, the Wilson’s Bird-of-paradise Diphyllodes respublica stands out as ‘a wanton waste’ of extreme beauty , and may well rank among Earth’s greatest avian treasures. West Papua foremost is home for a rich and exquisite humid forest avifauna. Exactly 718 bird species have now reliably been recorded from the territory, out of some 780 for the entire New Guinea or Papuan avifaunal region.
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