Red Bird-of-Paradise
Paradisaea rubra
A large bird of lowland forests on the northwest islands. Both sexes have yellow bill, chest and back of the head. Male has 2 long black tail streamers, chestnut wings and red plumes which he spreads in his display. Face is bottle green in males and black in females. Doesn’t overlap with any other similar birds-of-paradise. Male gives an often repeated, nasal “caw!”.
识别特征
Large, up to 33 cm long, brown and yellow with a dark brown iris, grey legs, and yellow bill. The male has an emerald green face, a pair of elongated black corkscrew-shaped tail wires, dark green feather pompoms above each eye, and a train of glossy crimson red plumes with whitish tips at either side of the breast. The male measures up to 72 cm long, including the ornamental red plumes that require at least six years to fully attain. The female is similar but smaller in size, with a dark brown face and has no ornamental red plumes. The diet consists mainly of fruits, berries and arthropods.
分类信息
- 学名
- Paradisaea rubra
- 命名信息
- Daudin, 1800
- 目
- Passeriformes
- 科
- Paradisaeidae
- 属
- Paradisaea
分布与栖息地
An Indonesian endemic, the red bird-of-paradise is distributed to lowland rainforests of Waigeo and Batanta islands of Raja Ampat, West Papua. This species shares its home with another bird-of-paradise, the Wilson's bird-of-paradise. Hybridisation between these two species has not been recorded.
- 迁徙
- Resident species
保护状况
- 种群趋势
- declining
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