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ForestCup nestMedium · 161 g
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The 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. The breast plumes have V-shaped barbules, creating thin-film microstructures that strongly reflect two different colors, bright blue-green and orange-yellow. When the bird moves the color switches sharply between these two colors, rather than drifting iridescently. During courtship, the male bird systematically makes small movements to attract females, so the structures must have evolved through sexual selection.
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When to see the Lawes's Parotia
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 Lawes's Parotia
The map shades 1 country with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.
About the Lawes's Parotia
Lawes's parotia is a medium-sized passerine of the bird-of-paradise family, Paradisaeidae. It is distributed and endemic to mountain forests of southeast and eastern Papua New Guinea. Occasionally, the eastern parotia is considered a subspecies of P. lawesii. The species is similar to the western parotia.
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Easily confused with
Queen Carola's ParotiaParotia carolaeCarola's parotia is medium-sized, up to 26 cm long.
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.
Western ParotiaParotia sefilataLike other birds-of-paradise, the western parotia is sexually dimorphic.
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