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Magnificent bird-of-paradise, Diphyllodes magnificus chrysoptera

August 2019. A female bird in the Tropicalia hall, which is also home to Greater and Lesser birds-of-paradise. The green mouth makes this an adult bird, so it has to be a female and cannot be a juvenile male. There were two males and one female present on our visit.

Magnificent bird-of-paradise, Diphyllodes magnificus chrysoptera
Vision, 11 Aug 2019
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      @EmperorTamarin, @KevinVar and I were very surprised to find 3 Magnificent birds-of-paradise in the Tropicalia hall yesterday and today! As far as we know they appear to be two males and one female of the chrysoptera subspecies. They're unsigned and not really on-show (yet?), but they are in the back aviaries opposite the lesser birds-of-paradise - not the ones adjacent to the path, but the ones behind those. You can just about see them from certain angles if you're lucky, with the female occasionally showing fairly well.

      There are now currently 10 birds-of-paradise present in that hall:
      -4.0.0 Greater bird-of-paradise (ssp apoda) roaming freely throughout the hall;
      -1.0.0 Greater bird-of-paradise (non ssp) in a first 'aviary complex';
      -2.1.0 Magnificent bird-of-paradise (ssp chrysoptera) in a second complex;
      -1.1.0 Lesser bird-of-paradise (non ssp) in a third complex.

      The green mouth makes this an adult bird, so it has to be a female and cannot be a juvenile male.
      11 Aug 2019
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