Blue bird-of-paradise

Blue bird-of-paradise

Near Threatened  (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Paradisaeidae
Genus: Paradisornis
Finsch & Meyer, A.B., 1886
Species:
P. rudolphi
Binomial name
Paradisornis rudolphi
Finsch & Meyer, AB, 1886
Range of P. rudolphi
Synonyms

The blue bird-of-paradise (Paradisornis rudolphi) is a large species of bird-of-paradise. It is the only species in the genus Paradisornis, but was previously included in the genus Paradisaea.

It is often regarded as one of the most fabulous and extravagant of all birds of the world, with its glorified and fancy flank feathers present only in males and the two long wires also only found in the males.

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