The bird is medium in size. The male is painted brightly, in the female's color a rusty-brown color predominates. The males are polygamous. The diet includes mostly fruits and arthropods. Within the borders of its range in the eastern part of New Guinea, this bird of paradise is common and not rare, therefore IUCN conferred on it the conservation status of LC (species of least concern) [1] . Sometimes, Ptiloris intercedens are considered as a subtype of a superficially similar, magnificent shield-bearing bird of paradise , but there is a difference between them in the color of the plumage, the song of a male, etc.
