Gilliard's bird-of-paradise
Gilliard's bird-of-paradise is a bird in the family Paradisaeidae that is a hybrid between a raggiana bird-of-paradise and lesser bird-of-paradise. It is known from adult male specimens taken in the upper Baiyer Valley in Papua New Guinea. It was named after American ornithologist Ernest Thomas Gilliard by Clifford Frith and Bruce Beehler.[1]
| Gilliard's bird-of-paradise | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Paradisaeidae |
| Genus: | Paradisaea |
| Species: | |
Notes
- Frith & Beehler (1998), p.506.
gollark: Except conlangs, which are weird in precisely defined ways, typically.
gollark: All languages are weird.
gollark: More like 701%.
gollark: One of the cool things about Iceland is that you can in fact wear sunglasses at times normally considered night, due to the weird day/night cycle.
gollark: I mean, dares are quite stupid anyway.
References
- Frith, Clifford B.; Beehler, Bruce M. (1998). The Birds of Paradise. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-854853-9.
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