MAGNIFICENT RIFLEBIRD

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.

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.

VICTORIA'S RIFLEBIRD

223            VICTORIA'S RIFLEBIRD         Ptilotis victoriae

Australia           (223)

23-25 cm. Ranges across small area of rainforests in ne Queensland, from near Cooktown to near Townsville. Lives in rainforests in mountains and foothills, occasionally open woodlands.