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Red Bird-of-paradise
Paradisaea rubra Daudin, 1800
Paradisaeidae — Birds-of-paradise
Red Bird-of-paradise, Paradisaea rubra, is a bird-of-paradise of the family Paradisaeidae found in Australasia on Waigeo, Gam and Saonek, south of Waigeo, and Batanta in the Raja Ampat Islands north-west of New Guinea. It is an Indonesian endemic linked to lowland rainforest. The male has an emerald green face, dark green feather pompons above each eye, a pair of long black corkscrew tail wires, and glossy crimson red plumes with whitish tips on either side of the breast. The female is smaller, with a dark brown face and no ornamental red plumes.
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Paradisaeidae — Birds-of-paradise
- Breeding range
- Australasia: Waigeo, Gam and Saonek (s of Waigeo) and Batanta (Raja Ampat Is., nw of New Guinea)
