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It is a small, approximately 26 cm (about 10 inches) long, passerine bird. The greater lophorina is a dimorphic species. The male is black with an iridescent green crown, blue-green breast cover, and a long velvety black erectile cape covering his back. The female is a reddish-brown bird with brownish-barred buff below. The young is similar to the female.
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When to see the Greater Lophorina
One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 6 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is July, the month with the most records.
Where to see the Greater Lophorina
The map shades 3 countries with regular records, and 2 more in a lighter tone where the bird turns up only as a stray. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.
Recorded as a rare visitor in United States, Guinea-Bissau.
About the Greater Lophorina
The greater lophorina, formerly a subspecies of the superb bird-of-paradise, is a species of passerine bird in the bird-of-paradise family Paradisaeidae. It is found in the central and northeast montane regions of New Guinea.
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Easily confused with
Lesser LophorinaLophorina minorThe lesser lophorina, also known as lesser superb bird-of-paradise or rasping bird-of-paradise, is a species of passerine bird in the bird-of-paradise family Paradisaeidae.
Vogelkop LophorinaLophorina superbaIt is a small, approximately 26 cm (about 10 inches) long, (passerine) bird.
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