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The flame bowerbird (Sericulus ardens) is one of the most brilliantly coloured bowerbirds. The male is a medium-sized bird, up to 25 cm long, with flame orange and golden yellow plumage, elongated neck plumes and yellow-tipped black tail. It builds an "avenue-type" bower with two side walls of sticks. The female is an olive brown bird with ...
Flame bowerbird, Sericulus ardens; Masked bowerbird, ... S. marynguyenae was a tiny member of its family, about the same size as the golden bowerbird.
Flame bowerbird Sericulus ardens (D'Albertis & Salvadori, 1879) New Guinea: Size: Habitat: Diet: LC Fire-maned bowerbird Sericulus bakeri (Chapin, 1929) Papua New Guinea. Size: Habitat: Diet: NT Regent bowerbird Male Female Sericulus chrysocephalus (Lewin, 1808) eastern Australia, from central Queensland to New South Wales. Size: Habitat: Diet: LC
Male satin bowerbirds (Ptilonorhynchus violaceus), for example, have lush, velvet blue plumage, while flame bowerbirds flaunt fiery yellow and orange feathers. Some bowerbirds sport brilliant ...
This is a list of the fastest flying birds in the world. A bird's velocity is necessarily variable; a hunting bird will reach much greater speeds while diving to catch prey than when flying horizontally.
The fire-maned bowerbird (Sericulus bakeri) is a medium-sized, approximately 27 cm (11 in) long, bowerbird that inhabits and endemic to the forests of the Adelbert Range in Papua New Guinea. [2] The striking male is black with fiery orange crown and upperback, elongated neck plumes, yellow iris and golden yellow wing patch.
The satin bowerbird ... The eggs are cream but streaked with brown, and are much larger than typical for a bird of its size at around 19 grams (0.67 oz); [4] ...
Ailuroedus is a genus of birds in the bowerbird family, Ptilonorhynchidae, native to forests in Australia and New Guinea. The common name, catbird, refers to these species' "wailing cat-like calls". [2] The scientific name Ailuroedus is derived from the Greek 'ailouros', meaning cat, and 'eidos', referring to form (or perhaps from oaidos ...