Stats

Lifespan: 5-8 yrs
Size: Medium
Diet: Omnivore
Activity: Diurnal
Social: Solitary
Biome: Tropical rainforest
Range: New Guinea
Movement: Flight
Breeding: Egg-laying
Defense: Camouflage
Status: Rare

About

Papua New Guinea's national bird, the Raggiana Bird-of-Paradise is famous for the male's cascading crimson-red plumes, which he fans out in elaborate communal courtship displays called leks — gathering with other males in a single display tree to compete for female attention.

Life cycle

1.
egg
A small clutch of speckled eggs is incubated in a cup nest, turned and kept warm by the parent.
2.
hatchling
A pink, blind hatchling is fed by its parents in the nest, gaping its bill at every visit.
3.
juvenile
A feathered juvenile fledges from the nest, learning to fly and to forage close to its parents.
4.
adult
Fully grown with adult plumage and song.

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Taxonomy

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Paradisaeidae
Genus: Paradisaea
Species: Paradisaea raggiana