Wilson's Bird of Paradise

Wilson's Bird of Paradise

Taxobox
name = Wilson's Bird of Paradise
status = NT | status_system = IUCN3.1



image_width = 225px
image_caption = "Cicinnurus respublica", male - Field Museum
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Aves
ordo = Passeriformes
familia = Paradisaeidae
genus = "Cicinnurus"
species = "C. respublica"
binomial = "Cicinnurus respublica"
binomial_authority = Bonaparte, 1850
The Wilson's Bird of Paradise, "Cicinnurus respublica", is a small, up to 21cm 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.

An Indonesian endemic, the Wilson's Bird of Paradise is distributed to the hill and lowland rainforests of Waigeo and Batanta Islands off West Papua. The diet consists mainly of fruits and small insects.

The controversial scientific name of this species was given by Charles Lucien Bonaparte, Napoleon's nephew and a republican idealist, who described the bird from a badly damaged trade specimen purchased by British ornithologist Edward Wilson. In doing so, he beat John Cassin, who wanted to name the bird in honor of Wilson, by several months. Thirteen years later, in 1863, the German zoologist Heinrich Agathon Bernstein discovered the home grounds of the Wilson's Bird of Paradise in Waigeo Island.

Due to ongoing habitat loss, limited range and exploitation, the Wilson's Bird of Paradise is evaluated as Near Threatened on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. It is listed on Appendix II of CITES.

Trivia

* The first footage of the Wilson's Bird of Paradise ever to be filmed was recorded in 1996 by David Attenborough for the BBC documentary "Attenborough in Paradise".

References

* Database entry includes a brief justification of why this species is near threatened

External links

* [http://www.birdlife.org/datazone/search/species_search.html?action=SpcHTMDetails.asp&sid=5831&m=0 BirdLife Species Factsheet]
* [http://www.redlist.org/search/details.php?species=4859 IUCN Red List]
* [http://www.rdb.or.id/detailbird.php?id=532 Red Data Book]
* [http://www.pbase.com/image/37557333 Alternate Image (PBase)]


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