Lophorina superba (J. R. Forster, 1781)

Diamond, Jared & Bishop, K. David, 2021, Avifauna of the Adelbert Mountains, New Guinea: why is Fire-maned Bowerbird Sericulus bakeri the mountains’ only endemic bird species?, Bulletin of the British Ornithologists’ Club 141 (1), pp. 75-108 : 97

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6D2353AF-B244-409B-AF02-944A06062AE

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persistent identifier

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scientific name

Lophorina superba
status

 

SUPERB BIRD OF PARADISE Lophorina superba View in CoL

Common above 1,570 m, with calling males spaced along the ridge. We saw adult males but no female-plumaged birds. As true of other New Guinea mountaineers, Munggur villagers gaveȱdifferentȱnamesȱtoȱmalesȱ(‘menemenemburúm’)ȱandȱfemalesȱ(‘soboromúnga’).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Aves

Order

Passeriformes

Family

Paradisaeidae

Genus

Lophorina

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