Wilson's bird-of-paradise facts for kids
The Wilson's bird-of-paradise is a small bird of the Paradisaeidae family.
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Description
The male is a red and black bird-of-paradise with a yellow mantle on its neck, a light-green mouth, blue feet and two curved violet tail feathers. The head is naked blue with a black double cross pattern on it.
As so often with birds in general, and paradise birds in particular, the female is not showy. It is a brownish bird, though it does have a bare blue crown.
Diet
Wilson's bird-of-paradise eat usually fruit or small insects.
Images for kids
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Illustration of male and female by Daniel Giraud Elliot, 1873
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Diphyllodes respublica Bonaparte, 1850. Male skin specimen caught before 1925, Waigeo Island (Pulau Waigeo), Irian Jaya, Naturalis
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Museum specimen. Batanta, coll. 1875.07.25 Odoardo Beccari
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Female specimen, Batanta, 1865, Naturalis
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See also
In Spanish: Ave del paraíso republicana para niños
