| Wallace's Standardwing |
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Wallace’s Standardwing is a handsome olive-brown Bird Of Paradise with beautifully glossed violet and lilac color crown and emerald green breast-shield. Its most striking features are two pairs of long white plumes coming out from the bend of the wing that can be raised or lowered at the bird’s will. George Robert Gray of the British Museum named this species ''Semioptera wallacii'' after Alfred Russel Wallace , British Naturalist and Author of ''The Malay Archipelago'', who discovered the species in 1858. This bird is the westernmost species of the true bird of paradise. Inhabits and Endemic to the famed Spice Islands of eastern Indonesia . Just before dawn, males gather and perform a spectacular aerial display to attract the females. The Wallace's Standardwing is evaluated as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. EXTERNAL LINKS |
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