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Thursday, July 2, 2015

PARADISE RIFLEBIRD

Photograph of the female hiding in the foliage at Binna Burra, Lamington National Park, Queensland, July 2015.
631          PARADISE RIFLEBIRD                Ptiloris paradiseus

Australia       (474)

28-33 cm, male larger.  Found in rainforests mainly in mountains/foothills; nearby wetter eucalypt forests; paperbark woodlands; occasionally open woodlands. Range: mostly in highland forests of Gt Dividing Range to c. 1200 m: Calliope Ra. s. of Gladstone (Q) (isolated population); and from Cooroy-Nanango-Bunya Mt NP )Q), s. to upper Williams R.-Barrington Tops NP-Gloucester Tops (NSW); casual s. to Dungog-Mt Royal  near Singleton (NSW); inland on Dividing Ra. exceptionally to Gibraltar Ra. NP-Murrundi. Fairly common, uncommon in s. of range.