Queen Carola's Parotia

About the Queen Carola's Parotia

Carola's parotia, also known as Queen Carola's six-wired bird-of-paradise or Queen Carola's parotia, is a species of bird-of-paradise.

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Where the Queen Carola's Parotia lives

When to see the Queen Carola's Parotia

Peak activity in November · a variable species across most of its range

Easily confused with

Western ParotiaParotia sefilataLike other birds-of-paradise, the western parotia is sexually dimorphic. 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. 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.