The miraculous bird of paradise [1] ( lat. Lophorina superba ) is a species of passerine birds from the family of birds of paradise ( Paradisaeidae ), which is distinguished into the monotypic genus of wonderful birds of paradise ( Lophorina ). A wonderful bird of paradise lives in the mountains [2] of Western New Guinea ( Indonesia ) and Papua New Guinea [3] , at an altitude of not lower than 2000 meters above sea level [2] . Body length - 23 cm [4] . An adult bird weighs 85 grams [4] . The plumage of the male is velvety black, the female purple-brown [2] .
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Subspecies
The species is divided into five subspecies [5] :
- Lophorina superba niedda - distributed on the peninsula ( English Wandammen peninsula ) (north-west of New Guinea) [5] ;
- Lophorina superba feminina - distributed from the Weyland Mountains ( Eng. Weyland Mountains [6] ) to the east in the central part of New Guinea [5] ;
- Lophorina superba latipennis - distributed in the east and northeast of New Guinea, and also lives in the Adelbert Mountains ( English Adelbert Mountains ) and in the mountains on the Huen Peninsula [5] ;
- Lophorina superba minor - lives in the mountains in southeast New Guinea [5] ;
- Lophorina superba superba - distributed on the Chandrawashi Peninsula (northwest of New Guinea) [5] .
Notes
- ↑ Boehme R. L. , Flint V. E. The Bilingual Dictionary of Animal Names. Birds. Latin, Russian, English, German, French / Ed. ed. Acad. V. E. Sokolova . - M .: Rus. lang., "RUSSO", 1994. - S. 466. - 2030 copies. - ISBN 5-200-00643-0 .
- ↑ 1 2 3 Brem A. Animal Life / Ed. Professor Nikolsky A. M .. - Moscow: OLMA-PRESS, JSC "Red Proletariat", 2004. - P. 433. - 1192 p. - ISBN 5-05197-214-9 .
- ↑ Lophorina superba . The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species .
- ↑ 1 2 Channa N. Bambaradeniya, Cinthya Flores, Joshua Ginsberg at all. The Illustrated Atlas of Wildlife. - Weldon Owen Pty Ltd., 2009 .-- S. 274. - 288 p. - ISBN 9780520257856 .
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 5 6 Taxonomy and distribution (English) (inaccessible link) . Birds-of-paradise (Paradisaeidae) . IBC.Lynxeds.com. Date of treatment January 25, 2011. Archived March 16, 2012.
- ↑ Location of the Weiland Mountains (English) . TravelJournals.net. Date of treatment January 26, 2011. Archived on April 10, 2012.