Bronze Parotia (Parotia berlepschi) | Range and ID

LCLeast ConcernEndemicFruit

ForestMedium · 163 g

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Arguably one of the more drab members of its family, the male bronze parotia has a blackish body in general with a conspicuous oily bronze sheen, more greenish in the neck area, that gives the bird its common name. The differences in the facial and head area is much more differentiated from the sister species; the frontal crest of the bronze parotia is mostly black with only a more reduced portion of white tips towards the center of it rather than an extended area of white found in Carola's; the inner "bowl" of the frontal crest is greenish gold.

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When to see the Bronze Parotia

One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 3 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is November, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Bronze Parotia

Regular range

The map shades 1 country with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

Indonesia

About the Bronze Parotia

The bronze parotia, also known as the Foja parotia, Berlepsch's parotia or Berlepsch's six-wired bird-of-paradise, is a species of bird-of-paradise, in the family Paradisaeidae. It resembles and is often considered to be a subspecies of Carola's parotia, but a high majority of authorities support its specific status.

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Easily confused with

Eastern ParotiaParotia helenaeIts appearance resembles Lawes's parotia, of which it is sometimes considered a subspecies. Wahnes's ParotiaParotia wahnesiThe male has an iridescent yellow-green breast shield, elongated black plumes, three erectile spatule head wires behind each eye, coppery-bronzed nasal tuft feathers and long, wedge-shaped tail feathers.

Lawes's ParotiaParotia lawesiiThe male is a velvet black bird with an erectile silvery white forehead crest, iridescent purple blue nape and golden green breast plumes which are structurally colored.

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