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Stephanoxis loddigesii
The spectacular southern subspecies of Plovercrest Stephanoxis loddigesii (Purple-crested with duler darker chest) was formerly (e.g., Cory 1918, Pinto 1937) considered a separate species from S. lalandi (Green-crested and striking deep purple breast), but Peters (1945) treated them as conspecific. This dinamite species is certainy an excellent candidate for a future split!
The lek behavior of the Plovercrest (Stephanoxis lalandi) has been described by Pizo. See the abstract at this link http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.1676/11...
Spotted on Mar 11, 2012
Submitted on Jul 7, 2012
9 Comments
Wow!! Wonderful!;)
Wonderful Spot and Shot !
Hi folks, glad you enjoyed my photo. Thanks for all the kind comments and votes to favorites. Cheers.
Awesome!
spectacular
Such a beautiful bird and photo!
Wow beautiful wonderful spotting !
Andrew Whittaker, you collection is great, and thanks so much for providing such interesting information and references.
beautiful spotting,gorgeous birdnd awesome spotting page congratulations and thanks for sharing