Long- tailed paradigalla

Name     :     Long tailed   paradigalla

Size   :          37 cms

Colours   :  black, yellow, red and sky blue  

Habitat :  Arfak  Mountains in vogelkop peninsula   West Papua of Indonesia 

Eats:   Most birds of paradise eat fruit or insects or maybe both

King of Saxony bird-of-paradise

Name :          King of Saxony bird-of-paradise

Size:              The adult King of Saxony bird-of-paradise is approximately 22cm long.

Colours:        black, yellow, white, brown, brownish-grey, aqua-green.  

         

Lesser bird of Paradise

Lesser Bird of Paridis

COLOURS:    It is maroon-brown with yellow crown and a brownish throat

SIZE :  The Lesser bird is medium-sized it Can go up to  32 cm long. 

Arfak Astraia

Name:                Arfak Astrapia

Latin name:       Astrapia Nigra

Size:                   76cm long
Colours :            Male black purple green and bronze
                           Female black
Habitat:              trees of the Arfak mountains in New guinea
Food:                  pandanus fruit

The arfak astrapia [Astrapia nigra] is large approximately 76 cm long

His plumage is black purple green and bronze for a male and black for a female.
It displays up side down to attract the female.
It manly feeds on pandanus fruit.

Arfak astrapia

Magnificent riflebird

This bird does a cool dance and it make a big  noise with they wings.

Where it lives

The girl does the same thing as the boy with her wings.

  

Wilson's bird of paradise

It is a very colourful bird. It is red, blue, black and yellow.

 

Where it lives

This bird lives in New Guinea on the Waigeo and Batanta Islands.

What is special about this bird?

He cleans his place when he want's to do his dance.
He has a tail in a form of a three.

Greater Bird of Paradise

This bird is a very colorful type of bird. It’s one of the most colorful birds of paradise. It has burgundy brown plumage with bright orange, yellow and white tail feathers. It has a bright yellow and black face.

What makes it dissimilar?

This is one of the only birds that dances on trees. With that the female can see the male better.



Where does it live?

This bird is distributed in southwest New Guinea.



What does it eat?

It eats fruit and nuts.It eats any fruits and nuts it finds.

Goldie’s bird of paradise

This bird is very beautiful because it has vibrant pretty feathers. I like my bird as it has plumes that are one of my favourite colours.

What makes the bird phenomenal?

My bird has a green throat which I like yet it sometimes shines.It has bright red feathers dangling down from a tree.The males always attract the females since they are more beautiful than the females.


                                         What it eats & Where it's found?

The Goldie's bird of paradise eat mostly fruits and mini beasts. They can be found in Papua New Guinea in the hills and forests.

Black sicklebill

The black sicklebill is a type of bird named a bird of paradise.

What’s distinctive about it?

It has a bill shaped like a sickle. It has lots of bright blue feathers. It has fluffy white feathers at the back, and a really long tail.

This is where it lives in New Guinea

What does it eat?

This bird of paradise eat's fruits and arthropods.

Queen carola's parotia

This bird is very good at dancing. But it’s not that coulorful either.

Destinctive


It contains a black body with yellow
Wings and white iridescent as a ornement.












Where dose it live?

Ribon tail astrapia

The ribbon-tailed astrapia is the most recently discovered bird-of-paradise. It is medium-sized bird and its body is velvet black.

The male has an iridescent olive green and bronze plumage, and is adorned with ornamental "ball" plume above its bill and two extremely long, ribbon-like white tail feathers. The female is a brown bird with an iridescent head.

What makes it distinctive?

The male ribbon-tailed astrapia has the longest tail feathers compared to its body size of any bird, over three times the length of its body.

How big it is?

The Ribbon-tailed astrapia is medium-sized, up to 32 cm long and has a white long tail that is over 1 meter long.

Where does it live?

The ribbon-tailed astrapia lives in the subalpine forests in western part of the central highlands of Papua New Guinea.

How does the male attract females?

He dances to show his tail feathers to the female.

What does it eat?

The ribbon-tailed astrapia uses its bill to eat berries, spiders, and frogs and other insects.

Western parotia

The Western parotia, is a magnifcent bird,
it's beautifull iridecence attrakts females and other people inthe viciniti.

                                                

      What make's him unique:

It's flashy blue eyes distinguish them from the Whanes parotia.

     Were dose he live?

the Western parotia lives in New Guinea:

 

what dose it eat?

It eats fruit insects and minibeasts

And another thing that makes it distiguish is its dance:

The Raggiana bird

The Raggiana - bird – of – paradise is a orange, yellow, green black maroon brown, with a greyish blue beak, yellow eyes and greyish brown feet.

It’s a large type of the paradise bird family.

Where to find it?

The Raggiana –bird – of –paradise, is found in southern and northeastern New Guinea.

How big is it?

It is about 34 centermeters long.

What does it eat?

All it eats is arthropods which are bugs spiders ants termites.

Superb Bird –of-Paradise

This bird is dissimilar from the rest because of his way of

Showing of his iridescent plumes. He might not be the most

Colourful one, but he has a really interesting way of mating.

How big is it?

He is approximately 26cm tall.

Where does it live?

He lives in the New Guinea mountains.

How does the male attract Females?

It curves its feathers (which looks like an iridescent mouth) and tilts its head (which looks like the eyes).

What does he eat?

It eats fruit and minibeasts.

Trumpet manucode

The Trumpet manucode is a bird of paradise. Actually it is not the most colorful bird of paradise.

What makes it individual?

Actually the only amazing thing about this bird is dance because it doesn’t do a dance or show its plumage, so the only thing it does to attract the female is stare.

How big is it?

The male is around 31cm and 35cm. The female is much smaller.

Where does it live?

The black things are where they live.

How does the male attract females?

Indeed to attract a female it does nothing at all.

What does it eat?

It eats fruit and arthropods (minibeasts)

Paradise Riflebird

The paradise riflebird bird of paradise. Actually it isn’t so colourful. It is mainly found in Eastern Australia. It eats only fruits and insects. In displays, the male extends its wings and fans them upward with its head behind the wings to expose green throat plumage. Then it moves its head with open billed feathers. It’s about 30 cm long. The male is black with an iridescent greenish blue crown, throat and central tail feathers. It has a black curved bill, black feet, dark brown iris and yellow mouth. The female is an olive brown bird with bare blackish below. Its beak is very long and a little yellow on the beak. It is going to be endangered in a few days.

It lives in Eastern Austrailia

Huon Astrapia

Name:  Huon Astrapia

Colour: The Male Huon Astrapia is more coloured than the female. He has black feathers apart from a blue part on its head, a purple-green tail and a lime green tummy. The female has blackish-brown feathers.

Size: The Huon Astrapia is approximately 69 cm long for the male but the female is smaller.

Diet: Some birds of paradise eat insects, some eat fruits and some eat both. The Huon Astrapia , being a herbivore,  eats fruits and seeds.

Habitat: The Huon Astrapia lives in the mountain rain forests of Paupa New Guinea.

These species are not endangered or extinct.

Curl crested manucode

Name: Curl-crested Manucode

 

Size: It is the largest species of Manucode, about 43cm long and its weight is  450grams. Its tail is shorter than the black sicklebill.

 

Colours: purple, black and green feathers, red eyes and a crinkled yellowish-green upper breast and neck feathers.

Standardwing

Name:       Standardwing

Size:          28 cm long

Colour:     olive-brown male has a glossy violet and lilac coloured crown and emerald green breast shield

Habitat:    North Malaku - In the canopy of the rainforest 

                  

Twelve-wired birds-of-paradise

Name :     Twelve-wired bird-of-paradise

Size:         Approximately 33cm

Colour:    The male is velvet, black and yellow

                  The female is brown.

Habitat:   particularly throughout New guinea, Salawati Island and Indonesia.

Eats:        It eats fruits, frogs, insects and nectar

Endangered:   No its least Concern