Species profile
Eastern Superb Bird-of-Paradise
Lophorina minor
Quick answer
southeastern Papua New Guinea (mountains of the Papuan Peninsula, west at least to the Wharton Range)
- Scientific name
- Lophorina minor
- Family
- Paradisaeidae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Genus
- Lophorina
- Conservation status
- Least Concern
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Related species in Paradisaeidae
- Arfak Astrapia (Astrapia nigra)
- Black Sicklebill (Epimachus fastosus)
- Black-billed Sicklebill (Drepanornis albertisi)
- Blue Bird-of-paradise (Paradisaea rudolphi)
- Bronze Parotia (Parotia berlepschi)
- Brown Sicklebill (Epimachus meyeri)
- Carola's Parotia (Parotia carolae)
- Craspedophora magnifica (Craspedophora magnifica)