Ribbon-tailed Astrapia

Ribbon-tailed Astrapia

Taxobox
name = Ribbon-tailed Astrapia
status = NT | status_system = IUCN3.1
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Aves
ordo = Passeriformes
familia = Paradisaeidae
genus = "Astrapia"
species = "A. mayeri"
binomial = "Astrapia mayeri"
binomial_authority = Stonor, 1939
The Ribbon-tailed Astrapia, "Astrapia mayeri" is a medium-sized, up to 32cm long, velvet black bird of paradise. The male has an iridescent olive green and bronze plumage, and is adorned with ornamental "ball" plume above its bill and two extremely long, ribbon-like white tail feathers. The female is a brown bird with an iridescent head.

One of the most spectacular bird of paradise, the male Ribbon-tailed Astrapia has the longest tail feathers in relation to body size of any bird, over three times the length of its body.

The Ribbon-tailed Astrapia is distributed and endemic to subalpine forests in western part of the central highlands of Papua New Guinea. Like many member ornamental bird of paradise, the male is polygamous. The Ribbon-tailed Astrapia is the latest bird of paradise to be discovered.

The scientific name commemorates the great naturalist and New Guinea explorer Fred Shaw Mayer, who discovered the bird in 1938.

Due to habitat lost and hunted for its plumes, the Ribbon-tailed Astrapia is listed as Near Threatened on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. It is listed on Appendix II of CITES.

References

* Database entry includes a brief justification of why this species is near threatened

External links

* [http://www.birdlife.org/datazone/species/index.html?action=SpcHTMDetails.asp&sid=5835&m=0 BirdLife Species Factsheet]
* [http://www.redlist.org/search/details.php?species=2245 IUCN Red List]


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