Twelve-wired bird-of-paradise
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The twelve-wired bird-of-paradise (Seleucidis melanoleucus) is a medium-sized, approximately Template:Convert long, velvet black and yellow bird-of-paradise. The male has a red iris, long black bill and rich yellow plumes along his flanks. From the rear of these plumes emerge twelve blackish, wire-like filaments, which bend back near their bases to sweep forward over the bird's hindquarters. The female is a brown bird with black-barred buff underparts. Their feet are strong, large-clawed and pink.
The sole representative of the monotypic genus Seleucidis, the twelve-wired bird-of-paradise is inhabits lowland and swamp forests,[1] particularly throughout New Guinea and Salawati Island, Indonesia. Their diet consists mainly of fruits and arthropods, extending to frogs, insects, and nectar.[1]
The display dance of the twelve-wired bird of paradise is called a wire-wipe display. The male chooses an exposed vertical perch, flares his breast-shield, and displays his flank plumes and bare pigmented thighs. The male uses his twelve flank-plume "wires" to make contact with the female, brushing across her face and foreparts.[2]
The twelve-wired bird-of-paradise is evaluated as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species,[3] and is listed on Appendix II of CITES. It has not been easy to breed them in captivity; the first successful captive breeding program was at Singapore's Jurong Bird Park, in 2001.[4]
Gallery
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Female
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A male in Jurong Bird Park
References
External links
- BirdLife Species Factsheet
- Video showing Bird-of-Paradise courting a female Tim Laman. Jayapura Western New Guinea. June 2010.
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- ↑ Clifford B. Frith, Dawn W. Frith. (1997) Courtship and Mating of the King of Saxony Bird of Paradise Pteridophora alberti in New Guinea with Comment on their Taxonomic Significance. Emu - Austral Ornithology 97:3, pages 185–193.
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