Wilson's bird-of-paradise
The Wilson's bird-of-paradise is a small bird of the Paradisaeidae family.
Description
The male is a red and black bird-of-paradise with a yellow mantle on its neck, a light-green mouth, blue feet and two curved violet tail feathers. The head is naked blue with a black double cross pattern on it.
As so often with birds in general, and paradise birds in particular, the female is not showy. It is a brownish bird, though it does have a bare blue crown.
Diet
Wilson's bird-of-paradise eat usually fruit or small insects.[1]
Wilson's Bird-of-paradise Media
Wilson's bird-of-paradise at Pulau Batanta Raja Ampat, 2015
Wilson's bird-of-paradise at Waigeo Raja Ampat, 2015
Illustration of male and female by Daniel Giraud Elliot, 1873
Diphyllodes respublica Bonaparte, 1850. Male skin specimen caught before 1925, Waigeo Island (Pulau Waigeo), Irian Jaya, Naturalis
Museum specimen. Batanta, coll. 1875.07.25 Odoardo Beccari
Female specimen, Batanta, 1865, Naturalis
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References
- ↑ Brinkley, Edward S. Brinkley (2003). "Reader's Digest Pathfinders" Creatures of the Air and Sea. Singapore: Reader's Digest Children's Books. p. 18. ISBN 0-7944-0353-0.