Kingdom Animalia Class Aves Family Paradisaeidae | Phylum Chordata Order Passeriformes | |
Species Parotia l. lawesii
x Paradisaea rudolphi margaritae Similar Rothschild's lobe‑billed bird of pa, Astrapian sicklebill, Barnes' astrapia, Duivenbode's riflebird, Bensbach's bird of paradise | ||
Schodde's bird of paradise is a bird in the family Paradisaeidae that is an intergeneric hybrid between a Lawes's parotia and blue bird of paradise.
History
Only one specimen, an adult female, is known of this hybrid. It is held in the Australian Museum and comes from Trepikama in the Baiyer Valley of Papua New Guinea. It was named by Clifford and Dawn Frith after Australian ornithologist Richard Schodde.
References
Schodde's bird of paradise Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA