Arfak Astrapia

Levaillant of France described this bird as L’Incomparable or Incomparable Bird of Paradise.

The Arfak Astrapia is classified as Least Concern. Does not qualify for a more at risk category. Widespread and abundant taxa are included in this category.

The Arfak Astrapia, Astrapia nigra is a large, approximately 76 cm long, black bird of paradise with an iridescent purple, green and bronze plumage. The male has a very long broad tail, velvety black breast feathers and extremely complex head plumage. The female is a blackish brown with pale barring on its abdomen. Levaillant of France described this bird as L’Incomparable or Incomparable Bird of Paradise. More

* Arfak Astrapia (Astrapia nigra) A bird feeding on berries. More

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the Arfak Astrapia is evaluated as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. It is listed on Appendix II of CITES. Copyright: Wikipedia. This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from Wikipedia.org - Photo, Video and/or Article contributions are welcome! Please click here for info The Avianweb strives to maintain accurate and up-to-date information; however, mistakes do happen. More

The Arfak Astrapia, Astrapia nigra is a large, approximately 76 cm long, black bird of paradise with an iridescent purple, green and bronze plumage. Arfak Mountains The Arfak Mountains are a mountain range found on the Bird's Head Peninsula in the Province of West Papua, Indonesia. Arfak Honeyeater The Arfak Honeyeater (Melipotes gymnops) is a species of bird in the Meliphagidae family. More

The Arfak Astrapia, for instance, was first illustrated as early as 1734! However, it took until September 1872 before the exuberant L. M. D’Albertis would be the first European collector to penetrate any distance into the Arfaks and as a matter of fact into montane New Guinea as a whole! The Arfak Mountains thus constitute the type locality of numerous widespread upland New Guinea animals and therefore alone are renowned in scientific literature. D’Albertis was followed by that other great Italian collector, O. More

Arfak Astrapia Astrapia nigra A younger male found by Zeth on Nadim Ridge in Arfak. 285. Splendid Astrapia Astrapia splendidissima Seen rather frequently around Lake Habbema, including good looking males. 286. Twelve-wired Bird-of-paradise Seleucidis melanoleuca At least five birds in Nimbokrang. One displaying male showed nicely with several females. 287. Red Bird-of-paradise Paradisaea rubra 4 males displaying for a few females on Batanta. 288. More