Flying Animal | Blue Cendrawasih | His name reminds one of the names Taxi transportation in Indonesia. This bird measures approximately 30 cm, black, iris dark brown, legs gray. Male birds decorated with feather wings with a dominance of blue-purple color. So that is also called the Blue Paradise. Blue Bird of Paradise is a bird endemic to Papua New Guinea. Distribution area includes the mountainous southeast of Papua New Guinea.
Blue Paradise discovered by Carl Hunstein in one of his expeditions on the island of New Guinea in 1884. The scientific name commemorates a rare species is the crown prince of Austria named Rudolf von Österreich-Ungarn.
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| P. rudolphi |
Scientific Classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Paradisaeidae
Genus: Paradisaea
Species: P. rudolphi
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Paradisaeidae
Genus: Paradisaea
Species: P. rudolphi
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| P. rudolphi |
Binomial name
Paradisaea rudolphi
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| P. rudolphi |