Gilliard's bird of paradise

Gilliard's bird of paradise
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Paradisaeidae
Genus: Paradisaea
Species: P. raggiana salvadorii

x P. minor finschi

Gilliard's bird of paradise is a bird in the family Paradisaeidae that is a hybrid between a raggiana bird of paradise and lesser bird of paradise. It is known from adult male specimens taken in the upper Baiyer Valley in Papua New Guinea. It was named after American ornithologist Ernest Thomas Gilliard by Clifford Frith and Bruce Beehler.[1]

Notes

  1. Frith & Beehler (1998), p.506.

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