Lesser Bird of Paradise
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| Paradisaea minor Shaw, 1809 |
The Lesser Bird of Paradise, Paradisaea minor is a medium-sized, up to 32cm-long, maroon-brown bird of paradise with a yellow crown and brownish-yellow upper back. The male has a dark emerald-green throat, a pair of long tail-wires and is adorned with ornamental flank plumes which are deep yellow at their base and fade outwards into white. The female is a maroon bird with a dark-brown head and whitish underparts.
Its closely resembles the Greater Bird of Paradise, but is smaller in size. The males are polygamous, and perform courtship displays in leks. The female usually lays two pinkish eggs with dark markings in a nest in a tree high above ground. Its diet consists mainly of fruits and insects.
The Lesser Bird of Paradise is distributed throughout the forests of Misool and Jobi Islands of West Papua and northern New Guinea.
Widespread and common throughout its large range, the Lesser Bird of Paradise is evaluated as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. It is listed on Appendix II of CITES.
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- BirdLife International (2004). Paradisaea minor. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN 2006. Retrieved on 12 May 2006. Database entry includes justification for why this species is of least concern
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