Red bird-of-paradise

Species of bird

This article is about the bird. For the plant, see Caesalpinia pulcherrima.

Red bird-of-paradise

Wild male in full display from West Papua on Waigeo Island
Female (at Jurong BirdPark, Singapore)

Conservation status

Near Threatened  (IUCN 3.1)[1]

Scientific classification
Domain:  | Eukaryota
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Chordata
Class:  | Aves
Order:  | Passeriformes
Family:  | Paradisaeidae
Genus:  | Paradisaea
Species:  |

P. rubra

Binomial name
Paradisaea rubra

Daudin, 1800

The red bird-of-paradise (Paradisaea rubra), also called the cendrawasih merah, is a bird-of-paradise in the genus Paradisaea, family Paradisaeidae.

## Description

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Large, up to 33 cm long, brown and yellow with a dark brown iris, grey legs, and yellow bill. The male has an emerald green face, a pair of elongated black corkscrew-shaped tail wires, dark green feather pompoms above each eye, and a train of glossy crimson red plumes with whitish tips at either side of the breast. The male measures up to 72 cm long, including the ornamental red plumes that require at least six years to fully attain. The female is similar but smaller in size, with a dark brown face and has no ornamental red plumes. The diet consists mainly of fruits, berries and arthropods.

## Distribution

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An Indonesian endemic, the red bird-of-paradise is distributed to lowland rainforests of Waigeo and Batanta islands of Raja Ampat, West Papua. This species shares its home with another bird-of-paradise, the Wilson's bird-of-paradise. Hybridisation between these two species has not been recorded.

## Gallery

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* Red bird-of-paradise on Tree in Raja Ampat Papua, 2015

* Red bird-of-paradise on Tree in Raja Ampat Papua, 2015

* Red bird-of-paradise on Tree in Raja Ampat Papua, 2015

* Red bird-of-paradise on Tree in Papua New Guinea, 2013

* Red bird-of-paradise on Tree in Papua New Guinea, 2013

* Juvenile Red bird-of-paradise, 2009

## In popular culture

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* The red bird-of-paradise is depicted on the front side of 1992 edition of Indonesia 20000 Rupiah banknote.

Red bird-of-paradise featured in 20,000-rupiah banknote.

## References

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1. ^ BirdLife International (2016). "Paradisaea rubra". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T22706241A94057735. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22706241A94057735.en. Retrieved 12 November 2021.

## External links

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* BirdLife Species Factsheet
* Red Data Book

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Birds-of-paradise (family: Paradisaeidae)

Genera and species

| Genus|

Species

Lycocorax|

* Halmahera paradise-crow
* Obi paradise-crow

Manucodia|

* Glossy-mantled manucode
* Jobi manucode
* Crinkle-collared manucode
* Curl-crested manucode
* Trumpet manucode

Paradigalla|

* Long-tailed paradigalla
* Short-tailed paradigalla

Astrapia|

* Arfak astrapia
* Splendid astrapia
* Ribbon-tailed astrapia
* Stephanie's astrapia
* Huon astrapia

Parotia|

* Western parotia
* Carola's parotia
* Bronze parotia
* Lawes's parotia
* Eastern parotia
* Wahnes's parotia

Pteridophora|

* King of Saxony bird-of-paradise

Lophorina|

* Greater lophorina
* Crescent-caped lophorina
* Lesser lophorina

Ptiloris|

* Magnificent riflebird
* Growling riflebird
* Paradise riflebird
* Victoria's riflebird

Epimachus|

* Black sicklebill
* Brown sicklebill

Drepanornis|

* Black-billed sicklebill
* Pale-billed sicklebill

Cicinnurus|

* Magnificent bird-of-paradise
* Wilson's bird-of-paradise
* King bird-of-paradise

Semioptera|

* Standardwing

Seleucidis|

* Twelve-wired bird-of-paradise

Paradisaea|

* Lesser bird-of-paradise
* Greater bird-of-paradise
* Raggiana bird-of-paradise
* Goldie's bird-of-paradise
* Red bird-of-paradise
* Emperor bird-of-paradise
* Blue bird-of-paradise

Incomplete list of likely hybrid birds-of-paradise

* Astrapian sicklebill
* Barnes's astrapia
* Bensbach's bird-of-paradise
* Blood's bird-of-paradise
* Duivenbode's bird-of-paradise
* Duivenbode's riflebird
* Duivenbode's six-wired bird-of-paradise
* Elliot's bird-of-paradise
* False-lobed astrapia
* Gilliard's bird-of-paradise
* King of Holland's bird-of-paradise
* Lupton's bird-of-paradise
* Lyre-tailed king bird-of-paradise
* Mantou's riflebird
* Maria's bird-of-paradise
* Mysterious bird of Bobairo
* Rothschild's bird-of-paradise
* Rothschild's lobe-billed bird-of-paradise
* Ruys's bird-of-paradise
* Schodde's bird-of-paradise
* Sharpe's lobe-billed parotia
* Stresemann's bird-of-paradise
* Wilhelmina's bird-of-paradise
* Wonderful bird-of-paradise

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Taxon identifiers

Paradisaea rubra|

* Wikidata: Q795542
* Wikispecies: Paradisaea rubra
* ADW: Paradisaea_rubra
* ARKive: paradisaea-rubra
* Avibase: 2215C01D11B737E6
* BirdLife: 22706241
* BOW: rbopar2
* CoL: 4CTLH
* eBird: rbopar2
* GBIF: 2494858
* iNaturalist: 8177
* IRMNG: 10216048
* ITIS: 561812
* IUCN: 22706241
* NCBI: 39963
* Observation.org: 75495
* Open Tree of Life: 762087
* Species+: 8247
* Xeno-canto: Paradisaea-rubra

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