HIS BEAUTIFUL VIOLET-BLUE PLUMAGE IS ENHANCED TO PERFECTION BY PURE WHITE SPECTACLES AND HIS BREATHTAKING DANCE MOVES!

This bird’s beautiful blue plumage is enhanced to perfection by his equally beautiful dancing in his courtship display.

MEET THE BLUE BIRD-OF-PARADISE

The blue bird-of-paradise (Paradisornis rudolphi), is a beautiful, relatively large species of bird-of-paradise. It is the only species in the Paradisornis genus but was previously included in the genus Paradisaea. Mostly black, this bird of paradise has a bluish-white bill, dark grey legs, and a broken white eye-ring, and bright blue wings.

The male is also adorned with violet-blue and cinnamon-shaded flank plumes, from which emerge two long ribbon-like tail feathers. Dull compared to the male, the female is mostly a shade of chestnut brown.

These birds are thinly distributed in the mountain forests of the Central Ranges in southeastern Papua New Guinea.

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