- Lawes's Parotia
Taxobox
name = Lawes's Parotia
image_width = 220px
image_caption =Lawes's Parotia , "Parotia lawesii" Male above, female below
status = LC
status_system = iucn3.1
regnum =Animal ia
phylum =Chordata
classis =Aves
ordo =Passeriformes
familia =Paradisaeidae
genus = "Parotia "
species = "P. lawesii"
binomial = "Parotia lawesii"
binomial_authority = E.P. Ramsay,1885 Lawes's Parotia, "Parotia lawesii", is a medium-sized (up to 27cm long)
passerine of the birds of paradise family,Paradisaeidae . It is distributed and endemic to mountain forests of southeast and easternPapua New Guinea . Occasionally, theEastern Parotia is considered asubspecies of "P. lawesii".The male is a velvet black bird with an erectile silvery white forehead crest, iridescent purple blue nape and golden green breast plumes. The inside of its mouth is lime-colored. Adorned with three ornamental spatule head wires from behind of each eye and elongated black flank feathers, that spread
skirt -like in courtship display. The female is a brown bird with dark head, yellow iris and dark-barred yellowish brown below. The iris is colored in various amounts of blue and yellow, changing according to the bird's mood.Like most birds of paradise, male Lawes's Parotia are
polygamous . The clutch contains 1, maybe occasionally 2 eggs; the few eggs have been studied were about 33 x 24 mm in size, but these were possibly small specimens (Mackay 1990). It eats mainly fruit, seeds andarthropods . The bird's home was discovered byCarl Hunstein on a mountain nearPort Moresby in 1884. Its name honors the New Guinea pioneermissionary ReverendWilliam George Lawes .Widespread and common throughout its range, Lawes's Parotia is evaluated as Least Concern on the
IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. It is listed on Appendix II ofCITES .References
*|year=2004|id=51197|title=Parotia lawesii|downloaded=29 October 2006 Database entry includes justification for why this species is of least concern
* (1990): The Egg of Wahnes' Parotia "Parotia wahnesi" (Paradisaeidae). "Emu" 90(4): 269. [http://www.publish.csiro.au/?act=view_file&file_id=MU9900269.pdf PDF fulltext]External links
* [http://www.birdlife.org/datazone/species/index.html?action=SpcHTMDetails.asp&sid=5823&m=0 BirdLife Species Factsheet]
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