Female © Ian Davies
Female © Brendan Klick
Male © Deborah Metters
Male © Celeste Morien
+ 3
Male © Luke Seitz
Male and female © Michael Rutkowski

Victoria's Riflebird Ptiloris victoriae

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Identification

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Large songbird with long decurved bill. Male almost completely black, with green and blue metallic sheen on belly, throat, and crown. Female brown above, buff below, with a sparse scaly pattern on chest and belly and a pale eyebrow. Inhabits rainforest and nearby drier forest in northern Queensland (i.e., around Cairns). Call a loud explosive hiss, often repeated. Males display from a prominent upright stump or snag, holding wings high above the head, flashing bright yellow gape, bobbing, raising wings individually, and swaying.

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