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| A juvenile or female Magnificent Riflebird. The rest are the male, photographed at Rainforest camping area, Iron Range, Queensland October 2015 |
701 MAGNIFICENT RIFLEBIRD Ptiloris magnificus
Australia (543)
Found in rainforests, monsoon forest, scrubs. 28-33 cm, male larger. Range: coast n. Cape York Pen. (Q) s. to Weipa on w. coast and to McIlwaith Ra., n. of Coen on e. coast. Fairly common. Sedentary.
poor girls they are so very plain and the boys are by contrast so very fancy with their electric blue feathers
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