Biology:Fire-maned bowerbird
| Fire-maned bowerbird | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Ptilonorhynchidae |
| Genus: | Sericulus |
| Species: | S. bakeri
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| Binomial name | |
| Sericulus bakeri (Chapin, 1929)
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| Synonyms | |
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Adelbert Regent bowerbird | |
The fire-maned bowerbird (Sericulus bakeri) is a medium-sized, approximately 27 cm (11 in) long, bowerbird that inhabits and endemic to the forests of the Adelbert Range in Papua New Guinea.[2] The striking male is black with fiery orange crown and upperback, elongated neck plumes, yellow iris and golden yellow wing patch. The female is a brown bird with brown-barred whitish underparts.
Its diet consists mainly of figs, ants and insects. The bower itself is that of "avenue"-type with two sides of wall of sticks.
The fire-maned bowerbird was discovered in 1928 by Rollo Beck. The female was unknown to science until 1959.
Due to ongoing habitat loss and limited range, the fire-maned bowerbird is evaluated as near threatened on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.
References
- ↑ BirdLife International (2017). "Sericulus bakeri". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2017: e.T22703671A117100558. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-3.RLTS.T22703671A117100558.en. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/22703671/117100558. Retrieved 13 November 2021.
- ↑ Diamond, Jared; Bishop, K. David (9 March 2021). "Avifauna of the Adelbert Mountains, New Guinea: why is Fire-maned Bowerbird Sericulus bakeri the mountains' only endemic bird species?". Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club 141 (1): 75-108. doi:10.25226/bboc.v141i1.2021.a8. https://bioone.org/journals/bulletin-of-the-british-ornithologists-club/volume-141/issue-1/bboc.v141i1.2021.a8/Avifauna-of-the-Adelbert-Mountains-New-Guinea--why-is/10.25226/bboc.v141i1.2021.a8.full.
External links
- BirdLife species factsheet for Sericulus bakeri
- "Sericulus bakeri". Avibase. https://avibase.bsc-eoc.org/species.jsp?lang=EN&avibaseid=.
- "Adelbert Bowerbird media". Internet Bird Collection. http://www.hbw.com/ibc/species/adelbert-bowerbird-sericulus-bakeri.
- Adelbert Regent bowerbird photo gallery at VIREO (Drexel University)
Wikidata ☰ Q1316266 entry
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