Magnificent Riflebird (Ptiloris magnificus) [XC437721]
by Marc Anderson from Rainforest Camp, Iron Range National Park, Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, Australia (call, voices)
Magnificent Riflebird (Ptiloris magnificus) [XC161222]
by Henk Krajenbrink from Iron Range NP, Queensland, Australia (song)
Breeding Season (Guide)
October - early February, sometimes later.
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Nest
An open, loosly-built, cup, composed of dead leaves, vine-tendrils and fibers, lined with finer materials, in a pandanus palm, on top of a dead stub of a tree or in the crown of a sapling, usually about 2 - 10 meters above the ground.
Eggs (Guide)
Usually 2; lustrous, cream to buff, boldly marked with thick longitudinal streaks and underlying smudges of brown, blue-black and pale grey; oval; about 34 x 23 mm. Incubation: about 15 - 16 days; by female.
Subspecies
Sometimes thought to form a superspecies with Victoria's Riflebird (Lophorina victoriae). Has been considered conspecific with Victoria's Riflebird (Lophorina victoriae).
The following 3 subspecies are recognised:
magnificus (Vieillot, 1819) - Western and central New Guinea from Vogelkop east to Wewak area in northern and, in south, to Purari R.
intercedens Sharpe, 1882 - Lowlands of central and south-eastern Papua New Guinea. Considered by some authors to be a distinct species, Growling Riflebird (Lophorina intercedens).
alberti Elliot, DG, 1871 - Albany I and patchily on adjacent Cape York Peninsula (south to Weipa area on western coast and to Rocky R area of McIlwraith Range on east), in north-eastern Australia.
The Field Guide to the Birds of Australia Pizzey, G., and Knight, E., 1997, Angus & Robertson, Sydney ISBN 0 207 19691 5
Field Guide to Australian Birds Morecombe, M., 2000, Steve Parish Publishing Pty Ltd. ISBN 1 876282 10 X
Field Guide to the Birds of Australia Simpson, K., and Day, N., 1999, 6th Edition, Viking ISBN 0 670 87918 5
Reader's Digest Complete Book of Australian Birds 1988, 2nd Edition, Reader's Digest ISBN 0 949819 99 9
What Bird is That? 1984, Revised Edition, Angus & Robertson, Sydney ISBN 0 207 14846 5
Handbook of Australian, New Zealand & Antarctic Birds 1990 - , Oxford University Press, Melbourne ISBN 0 19 553244 9
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