Splendid Astrapia
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The Splendid Astrapia, Astrapia splendidissima, is a medium-sized, approximately 39 cm long, black bird of paradise with an iridescent yellow-green mantle, blue-green throat, dark green below and short, broad and black-tipped white tail feathers. The female has a brown plumage and dark head.
This little known Astrapia is distributed to the mountain forests in western part of the central highlands of New Guinea
. Its diet consists mainly of fruit, insects, lizards and frogs.
Widespread and common species throughout its range, the Splendid Astrapia is evaluated as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List
of Threatened Species. It is listed on Appendix II of CITES.
This little known Astrapia is distributed to the mountain forests in western part of the central highlands of New Guinea
New Guinea
New Guinea is the world's second largest island, after Greenland, covering a land area of 786,000 km2. Located in the southwest Pacific Ocean, it lies geographically to the east of the Malay Archipelago, with which it is sometimes included as part of a greater Indo-Australian Archipelago...
. Its diet consists mainly of fruit, insects, lizards and frogs.
Widespread and common species throughout its range, the Splendid Astrapia is evaluated as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List
IUCN Red List
The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species , founded in 1963, is the world's most comprehensive inventory of the global conservation status of biological species. The International Union for Conservation of Nature is the world's main authority on the conservation status of species...
of Threatened Species. It is listed on Appendix II of CITES.