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Meek was born on 26 October 1871 in Bow, London, [1] the son of E. G. Meek, a merchant in natural history. In 1893 he travelled to Australia and spent some time at George Barnard’s cattle station at Coomooboolaroo, the only place in Australia where the now-extinct paradise parrot had occurred.
Illustration of both males and females. Ornithoptera paradisea is a large butterfly with a wingspan ranging from 140 mm to 190 mm. As they are sexually dimorphic, males and females differ in the size, shape and colour of the wings.
Birds-of-paradise range in size from the king bird-of-paradise at 50 g (1.8 oz) and 15 cm (5.9 in) to the curl-crested manucode at 44 cm (17 in) and 430 g (15 oz). The male black sicklebill , with its long tail, is the longest species at 110 cm (43 in).
His studies have resulted in many scientific publications on the behaviour, nesting biology, mating systems, and systematics of bowerbirds, birds of paradise, and other rainforest-dwelling bird species. He has produced two major ornithological text books: The Birds of Paradise: Paradisaeidae (1998), and The Bowerbirds: Ptilonorhynchidae (2004).
Birds of Paradise 6 January 2010 David Attenborough Bird-of-paradise: 9 The Secret Leopards 20 January 2010 Jonathan Scott Leopard: 10 The Chimpcam Project: 27 January 2010 Stuart McQuarrie Chimpanzee: 11 Prairie Dogs - Talk of the Town 3 February 2010 Rob Brydon: Prairie dog: 12 The Wild Places of Essex 10 February 2010 Robert Macfarlane
A 2009 study examining the mitochondrial DNA of the family found that the Paradisaea birds-of-paradise were in a clade with the genus Cicinnurus. It showed that the blue bird-of-paradise was a sister taxon to all the other species in this genus. [3] All are large, and sexually dimorphic.
Natural World was a strand of British wildlife documentary series broadcast on BBC Two and BBC Two HD and regarded by the BBC as its flagship natural history series. [1] It was the longest-running documentary series in its genre on British television, [2] with nearly 500 episodes broadcast since its inception in 1983. [3]
Parsons, Michael J., 1987 The Butterflies of Papua New Guinea. Parsons, M. J. 1992. The butterfly farming and trading industry in the Indo-Australian region and its role in tropical forest conservation. Tropical Lepidoptera 3 (Suppl. 1): 1-31.pdf Full text; Parsons, M., 1999 The Butterflies of Papua New Guinea - Their Systematics and Biology ...