The Zoochat Photographic Guide To Birds-of-Paradise

As a conclusion, a list of those species we either lack in the gallery altogether or which are represented only by taxidermy specimens; where appropriate I will annotate any species which hold more potential for live photographs to be available:


Paradise-crow (Lycocorax pyrrhopterus)
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Jobi Manucode (Manucodia jobiensis)
Crinkle-collared Manucode (Manucodia chalybatus) - displayed at Zoo Berlin until 2008, misidentified as Trumpet Manucode and paired with a bird of this species; currently held at one collection in Papua New Guinea.
Curl-crested Manucode (Manucodia comrii)
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Western Parotia (Parotia sefilata)
Queen Carola's Parotia (Parotia carolae) - displayed at Chester in the mid-1960s.
Bronze Parotia (Parotia berlepschi)
Lawes's Parotia (Parotia lawesii) - displayed at Chester and Rotterdam from the mid-1960s to the early 1980s.
Eastern Parotia (Parotia helenae) - currently held at two collections in Papua New Guinea.
Wahnes's Parotia (Parotia wahnesi)
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King of Saxony Bird-of-Paradise (Pteridophora alberti) - displayed at London from the late 1950's until the mid-1960's.
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Black-billed Sicklebill (Drepanornis albertisi)
Pale-billed Sicklebill (Drepanornis bruijnii) - displayed at Palmitos Park in Spain during the 1990s.
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Wallace's Standardwing (Semioptera wallacii)
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Growling Riflebird (Ptiloris intercedens)
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Crescent-caped Superb Bird-of-Paradise (Lophorina niedda)
Lesser Superb Bird-of-Paradise (Lophorina minor) - displayed at London in the mid-1960s.
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Black Sicklebill (Epimachus fastuosus) - displayed at London, Chester and Rotterdam from the mid-1960s to the early 1980s.
Brown Sicklebill (Epimachus meyeri) - currently held at two collections in Papua New Guinea.
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Long-tailed Paradigalla (Paradigalla carunculata)
Short-tailed Paradigalla (Paradigalla brevicauda)
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Arfak Astrapia (Astrapia nigra)
Splendid Astrapia (Astrapia splendidissima)
Ribbon-tailed Astrapia (Astrapia mayeri) - displayed at both Chester and London in the 1960s.
Princess Stephanie's Astrapia (Astrapia stephaniae) - displayed at both Chester and London in the 1960s, and bred at the latter collection; currently held at two collections in Papua New Guinea.
Huon Astrapia (Astrapia rothschildi)
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Goldie's Bird-of-Paradise (Paradisaea decora)
Emperor Bird-of-Paradise (Paradisaea guilielmi) - currently held at one collection in Papua New Guinea.
Blue Bird-of-Paradise (Paradisaea rudolphi) - displayed at Chester in the mid-1960s; currently held at one collection in Papua New Guinea..

 

I also have this photo, which doesn't show the male's plumes but does show a female.


Wallace's Standardwing (Semioptera wallacii) | ZooChat

 

Cheers added this into the relevant location.

 

I was going to go to Halmahera to look for this bird on my next trip, but it's changed to somewhere else now.

 

Indeed; normally I prefer to avoid using photos of taxidermy specimens but given the wide range of form and colour in this group I felt it was a worthy stopgap whilst we hope for more live photographs

Feel free to upload shots of those species which do not already have photographs in the thread

 

Cheers - I shall get them into the relevant places now.

As noted above, a few of them *are* currently in zoological collections, and others have been within living memory..... so you never know. The Crinkle-collared Manucode especially has a decent shot of being uploaded to the gallery, given the fact the last one in Europe died only 10 years ago, was housed with perhaps the most widely-photographed individual Bird-of-Paradise in the zoo world, and there are certainly photographs of the individual in question on ZTL

 

Could you please upload them into the gallery, actually? if they are attachments I cannot insert them within text, only at the end of a post.

 

Excellent

 

We could do with the Astrapia, Lesser Superb and the Curl-crested uploaded