📸 PhotoPhoto: Andrea Lawardi · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons Source
Greater Bird-of-paradise
Paradisaea apoda (Greater Bird-of-paradise · オオフウチョウ)
💡 Everyday Comparisons for Size, Mass & Speed
- 💡 Several males dancing side by side while females compare and choose from the center resembles an audition stage (Comparison).
- 💡 A 2018 study found that birds-of-paradise that dance in trees rely more on sound than species that dance on the ground (Natural History Museum, London).
Reference standards: coach bus ~12 m, mid-size car ~4.9 m, compact car ~1 t, basketball hoop 3.05 m, credit card 8.56 cm.
📖 1. Overview
The Greater Bird-of-paradise is a bird-of-paradise living in the Aru Islands and southern New Guinea, famous for males dancing together in the forest canopy.
🦴 2. Anatomy & Morphology
Males of the genus Paradisaea, to which this bird belongs, have showy ornamental flank plumes, whereas females are brown and lack ornamental plumes.
🔍 3. Ecology & Behavior
Using a cluster of branches in the forest canopy as a stage, males bow repeatedly, strike poses, hop along the branches, and dance with their long, showy plumes cascading forward. There is no pair bond in this genus, and males do not care for the young.
🇰🇷 4. Connection to Korea
No direct record connecting this species to Korea has been found.
📚 Sources & References
- • IUCN Red List LC (2024) — https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/22706249/264328824
- • IUCN Red List category LC — latest assessment at iucnredlist.org
- • doi.org — avilist.v2026
- • iucnredlist.org — 264328824
- • wikidata.org — Q325356
- • commons.wikimedia.org — File:Paradisaea apoda -Bali Bird Park-6.jpg
- • birdsoftheworld.org — introduction
- • birdsofparadiseproject.org — genera
- • nhm.ac.uk — animals-that-dance-to-impress.html
- • Silhouette: PhyloPic — Ferran Sayol · CC0 1.0 (Congeneric silhouette — Paradisaea)
Recorded dimensions are widely cited representative estimates from public literature and may vary by study or specimen.