Greater bird-of-paradise
SpeciesBirds-of-Paradise
A bird-of-paradise species in the genus Paradisaea.
1.25Uncommon
Uncommon
Greater bird-of-paradise
- Birds-of-Paradise
The greater bird-of-paradise (Paradisaea apoda) is a bird-of-paradise in the genus Paradisaea. Carl Linnaeus named it Paradisaea apoda, meaning “legless bird-of-paradise,” after early trade skins reaching Europe had been prepared without wings or feet by indigenous New Guinean people. This contributed to a misconception that the birds remained aloft and did not touch the earth until death.
- Scientific name
- Paradisaea apoda
- Genus
- Paradisaea
- Name origin
- Its name means “legless bird-of-paradise.”
Sources and credits
Sources and credits
- Article
- Greater bird-of-paradise (English Wikipedia)
- Wikidata
- Q325356
- Text
- Card text is adapted from the English Wikipedia article by an automated summary. Wikipedia content is available under CC BY-SA 4.0; see the article history for its contributors. CC BY-SA 4.0 · Article history and contributors
- Illustration
- By Andrea Lawardi. CC BY 2.0 · File page on Wikimedia CommonsAndrea Lawardi, originally posted to Flickr as cendrawasihModifications: Resized and converted to WebP
- Popularity
- 51 median daily views (Wikimedia Pageviews API (all-access, user agent))
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