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Paradisaea apoda
The Greater Bird-of-paradise is the largest member in the genus Paradisaea, with males measuring up to 43 cm (17 in) (excluding the long twin tail wires). The female is smaller, at only 35 cm (14 in). The plumage of this species is also sexually dimorphic. The male has an iridescent green face and a yellow glossed with silver iridescence crown, head and nape. The rest of the body plumage is maroon-brown. The flank plumes, used in displays, are yellow at the base, turning white and streaked with maroon. The female has unbarred maroon brown plumage. In both sexes the iris is yellow and the bills blue.
The Greater Bird-of-paradise is distributed to lowland and hill forests of southwest New Guinea and Aru Islands, Indonesia. The diet consists mainly of fruits, seeds and small insects. A small population was introduced by Sir William Ingram in 1909-1912 to Little Tobago Island of West Indies in an attempt to save the species from extinction due to overhunting for plume trades. The introduced populations survived until at least 1966, but most likely are extinct now.
Spotted on Jul 18, 2012
Submitted on Jul 18, 2012
5 Comments
There has been a problem with the mapping system for a long time now, if you type in a name it just goes to a default location in the middle of nowhere. We took down most of the map function some time ago as the 3rd party supplier would not support it and it was becoming too unreliable. Our tech team has done a complete rewrite of the program, including mapping, and is testing it at the moment so hopefully it is not too far away. The pin can be moved manually by clicking, holding and dragging to the correct position, zooming and repeating until it is possible to drop it within a few feet of the correct location. Your Night Heron suffered the same problem.
Thanks Malcolm. The habitat info, I just assumed it was referring to natural habitat, I will fix as for the location pin that seems to be a technological error as I've noticed this with quite a few of my Borneo spottings as of course it was not spotted there. I originally did input the correct location but it seems to have encountered some kind of problem. Also I added the Wikipedia link to the reference box, This is the way I add information for all of my spottings (including the link in the reference box) and have never been told otherwise.
As per our FAQs http://www.projectnoah.org/faq the Description and Habitat fields should not contain text copied from other websites as this may infringe copyrights, that is why we have reference fields for these. The habitat should be where you actually saw the bird and as it is captive the name of the establishment holding it. The map pin should also point to that same location, however yours point to the middle of almost impenetrable jungle far from civilisation so we would like you to confirm the exact location and let us know how you came to be there.
Yeah they really are pretty!
My fav!