Birds of paradise

           Birds of paradise are members of the order Passeriformes family Paradisaeidae. They are found in eastern Indonesia, Torres Strait Islands, Papua New Guinea, and eastern Australia. Bird of family members is known as the male bird feathers in many species, especially fur highly elongated and elaborate that grew out of the beak, wings or head. Bird of Paradise sizes ranging from Cendrawasih king at 50 grams and 15 cm to Cendrawasih half-crescent Black at 110 cm and Cendrawasih Manukod crested-rolled at 430 grams.
Bird of Paradise is the most famous member of the genus Paradisaea, including the type species, yellow-large Cendrawasih, Paradisaea apoda. This kind described from specimens brought to Europe on a trade expedition.


            This specimen was prepared by native traders by removing the wings and legs that can be decorated. It is not known by the explorers and give rise to the belief that this bird never landed, but remain in the air because of the feathers. This is the origin of the name bird of paradise ('bird of paradise' by the British) and the type name apoda - which means 'legless'.

             Many species have elaborate mating ritual, the mating system types Paradisaea are male birds gather to compete shows its beauty in female birds to be mating. While other types such as the types Cicinnurus and parotia have irregular mating dance. Male birds in the sexually dimorphic species are polygamous. Many birds hybrids described as a new species, and some species kevalidannya doubt.
The number of eggs a little less certain. On this kind of great, perhaps almost always one egg. Small type can produce as much as 2-3 eggs (Mackay 1990).