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 LC    Magnificent Bird-of-paradise* Id (Atlas):
    Cicinnurus magnificus

Description (10)
Image of Magnificent Bird-of-paradise
 

Other Names (World)
Magnificent Bird-of-paradise,

Family
Paradisaeidae (Birds-of-paradise)

Size
26 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Pennant, 1781)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical montane moist forest.

Range (Guide)
Indonesia (B), Papua New Guinea (B).

Rarity Status
Currently this species is not classified as a rarity in this country OR information has not been updated.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (32)...)

 
Magnificent Bird-of-paradise (Diphyllodes magnificus) [XC496987]
     by Iain Woxvold from Arfak Mountains, Vogelkop, Papua, Indonesia (call)

 
Magnificent Bird-of-paradise (Diphyllodes magnificus) [XC40376]
     by Patrik \u00c5berg from Arfak Mountains, Vogelkop, Papua, Indonesia (call)

Subspecies
Present species and Wilson's Bird-of-paradise (Cicinnurus respublica) sometimes separated from King Bird-of-paradise (Cicinnurus regius) in genus Diphyllodes. Hybridization with King Bird-of-paradise (Cicinnurus regius) and, intergenerically, with Lesser Bird-of-paradise (Paradisaea minor) recorded.

Proposed subspecies intermedius (described from upper Setekwa R, in Snow Mts) synonymized with chrysopterus.

The following 3 subspecies are recognised:

  • magnificus (Pennant, 1781)   -  West Papuan Is (Salawati) and north-western New Guinea (northern and eastern Vogelkop, Wandammen Peninsula and Onin Peninsula).
  • chrysopterus Elliot, DG, 1873   -  Yapen I (in Geelvink Bay) and western and central New Guinea east to mountains of Jimi R and Sepik-Wahgi Divide, also Adelbert Range.
  • hunsteini Meyer, AB, 1885   -  Eastern and south-eastern New Guinea from upper Fly R region (eastern along southern scarp of central Cordillera), Wahgi region and Huon Peninsula.



References
See References.


Files:
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