Sunday 16 October 2011

Cendrawasih Goldi

Cendrawasih Goldi
Flying Animal | Cendrawasih Goldi | Paradisaea decora | large-sized paradise with a length of 33 cm and olive brown. This bird is one of the types of birds of Paradise. Male birds have a hairy chest in yellow and dark green with purplish gray chest, yellow iris and beak, mouth and legs gray. Her body was adorned with ornamental feathers dark red waist and two long hair-like wires. Male birds differ from other types of Paradisaea because his chest hair is purplish gray. Female bird is not feathered and furry brown ornamental olive and orange-brown underneath.

Cendrawasih Goldi

Bird of Paradise Goldi is endemic in Papua New Guinea, the scattered islands of Fergusson and Normanby D'Entrecasteaux Islands, the archipelago east of Papua. The main food of these birds are fruits. His name is based on the name of a collector from Scotland, Andrew Goldie, the first European who discovered it in 1882.

Cendrawasih Goldi


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