Loria's bird of paradise

Cnemophilus loriae
Currently listed as a species of Least Concern by IUCN. It is part of the Bird of Paradise family. Found in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea, the bird inhabits tropical lowland and montane moist forests. More information can be obtained in this book by Frith and Beehler (1998) and also at this website; http://www.iucnredlist.org/search/details.php/51184/all

This photo was taken at Gahavisuka Provincial Park in Goroka, EHP, Papua New Guinea during a WCSPNG (http://www.wcs.org/international/Asia/175994/PNGpublications) field training course for local PNG biology major students.

Recent strides into the field of phylogenetics could mean placing the species of cnemophilus with honeyeaters (heard somewhere but need to check on this). From a morphological perspective honeyeaters (Meliphagidae, Melidectes etc) are in no way closer to the looks of the cnemophilus group but in this day and age of DNA revolution, this means genes take first precedence.

Okay I rest my case....see yah later and thanks for visiting

Kaioni (a papua new guinea language which means goodbye).....

There

At least now have things sorted out so will be posting something new today or more specifically a description of a bird that I posted sometime ago......

hope you like it

skul, skul skul

Hi

After a long time now I have not been able to post new messages on my blog. Have been so busy lately. With all the moving and getting set up in a new environment takes so much time. But now that all that is done, I will try to post new updates. I hope you still like the posts of far...

Catch laterrr