Fire-maned bowerbird
| Fire-maned bowerbird | |
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| Scientific classification Edit this classification | |
| 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
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- BirdLife species factsheet for Sericulus bakeri
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- Adelbert Regent bowerbird photo gallery at VIREO (Drexel University)
- Interactive range map of Sericulus bakeri at IUCN Red List
- Audio recordings of Fire-maned bowerbird on Xeno-canto.
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