Hyacinth Macaw

Hyacinth Macaw

Flying Animal | Hyacinth Macaw | A. hyacinthinus | One of the costliest and most beautiful birds in the world. The Hyacinth Macaw (Anodorhynchus hyacinthinus), or Hyacinthine Macaw, is a parrot native to central and eastern South America. With a length (from the top of its head to the tip of its long pointed tail) of about 100 cm (3.3 ft) it is longer than any other species of parrot. It is the largest macaw and the largest flying parrot species, though the flightless Kakapo of New Zealand can outweigh it at up to 3.5 kg. very beautiful and Amazing While Generally Recognized easily, it can be confused with the far rarer Lear's Macaw and Smaller. Habitat loss and trapping wild birds for the pet trade has taken a heavy toll on Their population in the wild, and as a result the species is classified as Endangered on the International Union for Conservation of Nature's Red List, and it is protected by its listing on Appendix I of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora.

Nesting takes place between July and December, nests are constructed in tree cavities or cliff faces depending on the habitat. In the Pantanal region, 90% of nests are constructed in the manduvi tree (Sterculia apetala). Hollows of sufficient size are only found in trees of around 60 years of age or older, and competition is fierce. Existing holes are enlarged and the partially filled with wood chips. The clutch size is one or two eggs, although usually only one fledgling survivesas the second egg hatches several days after the first, and the smaller fledgling cannot compete with the first born for food. The incubation period lasts about a month, and the male will tend to his mate whilst she incubates the eggs.

Hyacinth Macaw

Hyacinth Macaw

Identification  

100 cm. Huge, blue macaw with yellow facial skin. Intense cobalt blue coloration with black underwings, bare yellow orbital area and lappet bordering the lower mandible. Long tail and huge bill. Immatures have shorter tail and paler yellow bare facial skin. Older adults have lighter grey or white legs. Similar spp. Lear's Macaw A. leari is much smaller and only escaped birds could occur in the range of A. hyacinthinus. Voice Loud, raucous croaking and screeching calls, less harsh than Ara, often given in pairs.

Hyacinth Macaw

Distribution and habitat

The Hyacinth Macaw survives today in three main populations in South America: In the Pantanal region of Brazil, and adjacent eastern Bolivia and northeastern Paraguay, in the Cerrado region of the eastern interior of Brazil (Maranhão, Piauí, Bahia, Tocantins, Goiás, Mato Grosso and Minas Gerais), and in the relatively open areas associated with the Tocantins River, Xingu River, Tapajós River, and the Marajó island in the eastern Amazon Basin of Brazil.

Hyacinth Macaw

Food and feeding
The majority of the hyacinth macaw diet is nuts from native palms, such as acuri and bocaiuva palms. They have a very strong beak for eating the kernels of hard nuts and seeds. Their strong beaks are even able to crack coconuts, the large brazil nut pods and macadamia nuts.

Hyacinth Macaw

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Paradise Parotia

Paradise Parotia

Flying Animal | Paradise Parotia | Parotia berlepschi | Cendrawasih Parotia These tiny animals. The bird was first discovered in the 19th century. The bird was named after Hans von Berlepsch, a German ornithologis. In an expedition in December 2005, the researchers found the back of this species in the Foja Mountains, Papua, Indonesia.

Scientific Classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Paradisaeidae
Genus: Parotia
Species: P. berlepschi

Binomial Name
Parotia berlepschi

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Paradise Parotia

Paradise Parotia

Paradise Parotia

Paradise Parotia

Paradise Parotia

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Wilson’s Bird of Paradise

Wilson’s Bird of Paradise

Flying Animal | Wilson’s Bird of Paradise | The Wilson's Bird-of-paradise, Cicinnurus respublica, is a small, up to 21 cm long, passerine bird of the Paradisaeidae family. The male is a red and black bird-of-paradise with a yellow mantle on its neck, light green mouth, rich blue feet and two curved violet tail feathers. The head is naked blue with black double cross pattern on it. The female is a brownish bird with bare blue crown. In the field the blue bare skin on the crown of the bird's head is so vivid that it is clearly visible by night, the deep scarlet back and velvet green breast are lush, and the curlicue tail gleams bright silver.

Cicinnurus respublica is endemic to the Papuan islands of Waigeo and Batanta off north-west Papua (formerly Irian Jaya), Indonesia, where it reported to be frequent in suitable habitat.

Wilson’s Bird of Paradise

Trend justification Declines are likely to have occurred as a result of forest loss and degradation, although these may not be severe as this species apparently persists in selectively logged forest. Hunting for skins may also contribute to declines.

Wilson’s Bird of Paradise

Ecology  This species occurs in hill forest, generally above 300 m, although it is often heard even at low altitude

Wilson’s Bird of Paradise

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Riflebird Paradise

Riflebird Paradise

Flying Animal | Riflebird Paradise | One of the best bird world. The Paradise Riflebird, Ptiloris paradiseus, is a medium-sized, up to 30 cm long, passerine bird of the Paradisaeidae (Birds of Paradise) family. The male is black with an Iridescent greenish blue crown, throat and central tail feathers. It has a curved black bill, black feet, dark brown iris and yellow mouth. The female is an olive brown bird with barred blackish below.Endemic to eastern Australia, the Paradise Riflebird is distributed to rainforests of New South Wales and central Queensland. The diet consists mainly of insects and fruits.

Riflebird Paradise

Riflebird Paradise

Scientific classification
Kingdom:     Animalia
Phylum:     Chordata
Class:     Aves
Order:     Passeriformes
Family:     Paradisaeidae
Genus:     Ptiloris
Species:     P. paradiseus

Riflebird Paradise

Riflebird Paradise

Binomial name
Ptiloris paradiseus

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Astrapia Ribbon-tailed

Astrapia Ribbon-tailed

Flying Animal | Astrapia Ribbon-tailed | The scientific name commemorates the great naturalist and New Guinea explorer Fred Shaw Mayer, who was believed to have discovered the bird in 1938. However, it is now believed that explorer Jack Hides discovered the bird, while Mayer became interested in it later.

One of the most spectacular birds of paradise, the male Ribbon-tailed Astrapia has the longest tail feathers in relation to body size of any bird, over three times the length of its body.

Astrapia Ribbon-tail

Scientific classification
Kingdom:     Animalia
Phylum  :     Chordata
Class     :     Aves
Order    :     Passeriformes
Family   :     Paradisaeidae
Genus   :     Astrapia
Species :     A. mayeri

Binomial name
Astrapia mayeri

Astrapia Ribbon-tail

Distribution and population  Astrapia mayeri has a small range in the central mountains of Papua New Guinea, from the Strickland River to Mt Hagen and Mt Giluwe, c.130 km west. Its western limits require further surveying. It is generally fairly common, even in degraded forest. At a new site, Kumul Lodge in the west of its range, it is reported to be abundant4.

Astrapia Ribbon-tail

Trend justification There are no data on population trends; however, the species is thought to be in slow decline, owing to on-going habitat degradation. Ecology  It occurs in montane forest between 2,400 and 3,400 m, sometimes down to 1,800 m and also in degraded forest.

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Lesser bird of paradise

Lesser bird of paradise

Flying Animal | Lesser bird of paradise | Become a bird one world's most expensive because a lot of advantages. The Lesser Bird-of-paradise is a medium-sized, up to 32 cm-long, maroon-brown 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 at the which are deep yellow Their base and fade outwards into white. The female is a bird with a dark maroon-brown head and whitish underparts. Further study is required, but it seems a Likely That birds of paradise also possess toxins in Their skins, derived from Their insect prey. It resembles the larger Greater Bird-of-paradise, but the male of the species has a dark That chest, whereas the female is entirely brown (no whitish underparts).

Among the most notable birds-of-paradise are the plumebirds — the seven species of Paradisaea, 29 to 46 cm (11 1/2 to 18 in.) long. Their central tail feathers are elongated as wires or twisted narrow ribbons, and their filmy flank plumes can be raised and brought forward over the back, hiding the wings. The greater bird-of-paradise (P. apoda) has been introduced into the island of Little Tobago, in Trinidad and Tobago off the coast of Venezuela.

Lesser bird of paradise

The 12-wired bird-of-paradise (Seleucidis melanoleuca, sometimes S. ignotus) is a short-tailed, 33-cm bird with flank plumes elaborated as forward-curving wires.

Lesser bird of paradise

Grouped as flagbirds are the six-plumed birds-of-paradise—the four species of Parotia—and the King of Saxony's bird-of-paradise (Pteridophora alberti). The former have elaborate flank plumes as well as six flag-tipped wires projecting back from the head; the latter has a shoulder-cape and a pair of long head-streamers composed of about 40 squarish lobes with an enameled appearance.

Lesser bird of paradise

Scientific Classification
Kingdom:     Animalia
Phylum:     Chordata
Class:     Aves
Order:     Passeriformes
Family:     Paradisaeidae
Genus:     Paradisaea
Species:     P. minor

Lesser bird of paradise

Binomial Name
Paradisaea minor

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Cendrawasih Panji

Paradise Banner

Flying Animal | Cendrawasih Panji | Paradise Banner | or the scientific name Pteridophora Alberti is a kind of small-sized babbler bird, with a length of about 22cm, from a single genus Pteridophora. Adult males have black hair and dark yellow, her head there are two strands of wire scaly feathers glossy blue-sky, which reaches 40cm in length and can be enforced at the time attracts the females.

Paradise Banner

 

Like most other bird species in the tribe Paradisaeidae, Panji Paradise is polygamous species. Male birds attract couples with fur coats and the two wires in his head in ritual dances. After copulation, males leave the females and start looking for another partner. Female birds incubate and nurture the child's own bird.

Paradise Banner

The scientific name for birds of Paradise banner commemorating a German king, Albert I of Saxony.

Paradise Banner

Scientific Classification
Kingdom : Animalia
Phylum   : Chordata
Class      : Aves
Order     : Passeriformes
Family   : Paradisaeidae
Genus    : Pteridophora
Species  : P. Alberti

Binomial Name
Alberti Pteridophora

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Cendrawasih Goldi

Cendrawasih Goldi

Flying Animal | Cendrawasih Goldi | Paradisaea decora | large-sized paradise with a length of 33 cm and olive brown. This bird is one of the types of birds of Paradise. Male birds have a hairy chest in yellow and dark green with purplish gray chest, yellow iris and beak, mouth and legs gray. Her body was adorned with ornamental feathers dark red waist and two long hair-like wires. Male birds differ from other types of Paradisaea because his chest hair is purplish gray. Female bird is not feathered and furry brown ornamental olive and orange-brown underneath.

Cendrawasih Goldi

Bird of Paradise Goldi is endemic in Papua New Guinea, the scattered islands of Fergusson and Normanby D'Entrecasteaux Islands, the archipelago east of Papua. The main food of these birds are fruits. His name is based on the name of a collector from Scotland, Andrew Goldie, the first European who discovered it in 1882.

Cendrawasih Goldi

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Cendrawasih Gagak

Lycocorax pyrrhopterus

Flying Animal | Cendrawasih Gagak | Paradise crow is one kind of paradise, paradise is like a crow. Cendarwasih like a crow-sized with a length of about 34 cm. Its fur is dark, soft and silky. Beak black, carmine red eye color, and have a voice call is reminiscent of barking dogs. Males and females alike. Females slightly larger bird than the male birds.

Lycocorax pyrrhopterus

Scientific Classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Paradisaeidae
Genus: Lycocorax
Bonaparte, 1853
Species: L. pyrrhopterus

Lycocorax pyrrhopterus

Lycocorax pyrrhopterus

Binomial name
Lycocorax pyrrhopterus

Lycocorax pyrrhopterus

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Blue Cendrawasih

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.

P. rudolphi

Scientific Classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Paradisaeidae
Genus: Paradisaea
Species: P. rudolphi

P. rudolphi

Binomial name
Paradisaea rudolphi

P. rudolphi

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Cendrawasih Raggiana

Cendrawasih Raggiana

 

Flying Animal | Cendrawasih Raggiana | Regional distribution Raggiana Paradise found in the tropical rain forest, lowland forest, hills and mountains of the south island of New Guinea, from sea level to an altitude of 1,500 meters. This species name commemorates a nobleman from Genoa, Italy named Francis Raggi. Raggiana Paradise is the national fauna of Papua New Guinea.

Cendrawasih is the Indonesian word for the bird of paradise. The Raggiana bird of paradise (Paradisaea raggiana) is the national bird of New Guinea, and its figure graces everything from money to stamps to taxi cabs. Because they have such rare and beautiful plumage, birds of paradise have been hunted for centuries, and their feathers have been used for decoration and their supposed mystical properties. They are currently listed as endangered and trapping and export are illegal, but all species of the bird of paradise are still being traded illegally on the black market.

Cendrawasih Raggiana

Cendrawasih, or Birds of Paradise, are considered by many to be the most beautiful birds on the planet. The females are a relatively drab, dull brown, which helps them take cover when they are nesting and raising the young. They average about 13 inches in length (33 cm), about the size and build of a crow. The males are covered with different sizes and shapes of feathers in every conceivable color, and they often have patches of skin without feathers that are wild, shocking colors as well. The Raggiana has very long, orange, trailing tail feathers. His head and the nape of his neck are yellow, and he has a green chin.

Cendrawasih Raggiana

Tradition

Courtship is the main purpose of the paradise's gaudy appearance. The females outnumber the males, so the males Must Compete with each other to win the favor of a female Pls She is ready to mate. The Raggiana ESPECIALLY is known for his overly energetic courtship dance.

Cendrawasih Raggiana

There are, however, some species of bird of paradise That mate for life, and the males have drab brown feathers like the females and Will help raise the young and growing niche the nest. That of the species are polygamous, however, the female takes care of all nesting and raising duties, usually laying two eggs at a time.

Cendrawasih Raggiana

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