Wahnes's Parotia

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When to see the Wahnes's Parotia

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Where to see the Wahnes's Parotia

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About the Wahnes's Parotia

Wahnes's parotia is a medium-sized passerine of the bird-of-paradise family (Paradisaeidae). This species is distributed and endemic to the mountain forests of Huon Peninsula and Adelbert Mountains, northeast Papua New Guinea. The diet consists mainly of fruits and arthropods.

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Easily confused with

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. Eastern ParotiaParotia helenaeIts appearance resembles Lawes's parotia, of which it is sometimes considered a subspecies. Bronze ParotiaParotia berlepschiArguably 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.