Species profile
Western Superb Bird-of-Paradise
Lophorina superba
Quick answer
Common above 1,570 m, with calling males spaced along the ridge. We saw adult males but no female-plumaged birds. As true of other New Guinea mountaineers, Munggur villagers gaveȱdifferentȱnamesȱtoȱmalesȱ (‘ menemenemburúm’) ȱandȱfemalesȱ (‘ soboromúnga’).
- Scientific name
- Lophorina superba
- 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)