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The greater lophorina is distributed throughout the rainforests of New Guinea. It most commonly inhabits rainforests or forest edges of Indonesia and Papua New Guinea. [13] They can also be found inhabiting mountainous habitats of the forests in New Guinea. The greater lophorina is also usually found on top of the trees that reside in the ...
Lophorina is a genus of birds in the birds-of-paradise family Paradisaeidae that are endemic to New Guinea, formerly containing a single species, but as of 2017, containing three species. Taxonomy [ edit ]
Duivenbode's six-wired bird-of-paradise, also known as Duivenbode's six-plumed bird-of-paradise, [1] is a bird in the family Paradisaeidae that is an intergeneric hybrid between a western parotia and greater lophorina. The common name commemorates Maarten Dirk van Renesse van Duivenbode (1804–1878), Dutch trader of naturalia on Ternate.
The majority of species are found in eastern Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, and eastern Australia. The family has 45 species in 17 genera . The members of this family are perhaps best known for the plumage of the males of the species, the majority of which are sexually dimorphic .
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 genus Paradisaea consists of six species of birds-of-paradise (family Paradisaeidae).The genus is found on the island of New Guinea as well as the nearby islands groups of the Aru Islands, D'Entrecasteaux Islands and Raja Ampat Islands.
The Vogelkop lophorina was given the binomial name Paradisea superba in 1781 in a book which has the German naturalist Johann Reinhold Forster on the title page. The binomial name is accompanied by a cite to a hand coloured plate engraved by François-Nicolas Martinet that had been included in Edme-Louis Daubenton's Planches Enluminées D'Histoire Naturelle.
The greater bird-of-paradise (Paradisaea apoda) is a bird-of-paradise in the genus Paradisaea.. Carl Linnaeus named the species Paradisaea apoda, or "legless bird-of-paradise", because early trade skins to reach Europe were prepared without wings or feet by the indigenous New Guinean people; this led to the misconception that these birds were beautiful visitors from paradise that were kept ...