Female © Carmelo López Abad
Male © Jacques Erard
Male © Richard Pollard
Male and female © Anonymous

Lesser Bird-of-Paradise Paradisaea minor

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Identification

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A large bird of lowland and foothill forest and edge. Both sexes have yellow back and yellow eye. Male has a chestnut breast and white and yellow plumes which he raises above his back during his display, in which he flaps his chestnut wings. The male is distinguished from Greater by his yellow back and Emperor by his brown chest. Females distinguished from other species by their white underparts and black hood. Male gives a typical, repeated, nasal squawk.

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