IT may be interesting to many of your readers to know that a specimen of the rare and beautiful twelve-wired Paradise Bird (Seleucides alba) is now alive in the Royal Zoological Gardens at Florence.

Once the male twelve-wired bird-of-paradise has performed its first display to the right standard to persuade a female to approach, it switches to a new tactic. It turns its back, twists the lower ...

This article was originally published with the title “ The Twelve-Wired Bird of Paradise ” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 56 No. 26 (June 1887), p. 407 doi:10.1038 ...

Researchers discovered that 37 out of 45 known species of birds of paradise possess biofluorescence, emitting green or yellow-green light when exposed to blue or UV light.

Would birds of paradise, which go all-out Vegas in courtship, have evolved fluorescence? Science News headlines, ... Published online February 12, 2025, doi: 10.1098/rsos.241905.

Over the years, the park has won several world-first accolades for breeding threatened species such as the Great Hornbill, Black Hornbill, Twelve-wired Bird-of-Paradise, Straw-headed Bulbul and ...

Birds-of-paradise are even colorful in the dark, with feathers and body parts that glow a brilliant yellow-green under ultraviolet (UV) light, a new study found.

In the swamp rainforest of Papua New Guinea, a male twelve-wired bird of paradise starts its performance at first light. Calling loudly, it reveals the emerald green inside of its beak, and flares its ...