Stresemann's bird-of-paradise

{{Short description|Hybrid bird}}

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| name = Stresemann's bird-of-paradise

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| parent = Paradisaeidae

| genus1 = Parotia

| species1 = carolae

| link1 = Queen Carola's parotia

| genus2 = Lophorina

| species2 = superba

| link2 = Greater lophorina

| synonyms = *Lophorina superba pseudoparotia Stresemann, 1934

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Stresemann's bird-of-paradise is a bird in the family Paradisaeidae that is an intergeneric hybrid between a Queen Carola's parotia and greater lophorina.

History

Only one female specimen is known of this hybrid, held in the Berlin Natural History Museum, coming from Mount Hunstein in the Sepik district of north-eastern New Guinea. It was first identified as a female Carola's Parotia in 1923 and later, in 1934, described as a subspecies of the Superb Bird of Paradise; it is named for its original identifier and later describer, German ornithologist Erwin Stresemann.Frith & Beehler (1998), pp.514-515.

Notes

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References

  • {{cite book |title= The Birds of Paradise|author1=Frith, Clifford B. |author2=Beehler, Bruce M. |name-list-style=amp |year= 1998|publisher= Oxford University Press|location= Oxford|isbn= 978-0-19-854853-9}}

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Category:Hybrid birds of paradise

Category:Birds of Papua New Guinea

Category:Intergeneric hybrids

Category:Endemic birds of Papua New Guinea

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