Image by Tim Laman/Macaulay Library. For example, when the male Vogelkop superb bird-of-paradise is ready to woo a female, it spreads out its black cape into a crescent shape, its iridescent blue ...

The Vogelkop Superb Bird-of-Paradise, to use its full name ... are combined with a mating dance which is used to impress the female. Females have the choice of who to mate with and the combination ...

In one interactive game, female birds, which are uniformly ... or the extreme smiley face display of the superb bird of paradise, is captured in minute detail in photos and videos throughout ...

A female arrives. She is comparatively drab ... Paul is looking for the Superb Bird-of-paradise, whose breast feathers are so sought after. It calls in the dense mid-canopy, but it displays ...

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Their elaborate dances, poses, and other rituals accentuate their appearance and put on a phenomenal show for both female birds ... part of the male's time. Birds of paradise are found in New ...

Listen. (Chirping) It's the superb bird of paradise. He's calling out to the female to let her know he's about to do his courting dance. Oh, the superb might not be the most colorful bird of ...

The power of female choice to create beauty So that ... microfluffs are pointed directly at the viewer. The superb bird-of-paradise, Lophorina superba (the featured image at the top of this ...

First dates are a little weird for everybody, but the Superb Bird-of-Paradise may have the craziest first date in the animal kingdoms. This avian actually warps its whole body and dances so that ...

In Birds of Paradise, super-black feathers help male birds look more beautiful to a female’s eye. To understand how, it helps to look at Bird of Paradise mating dances. Males vigorously display ...

Then he puts on a dance, moving around a female in semi-circle motions ... that the Vogelkop is genetically distinct from the superb bird of paradise species, which is now named the greater ...

This new species, called the Vogelkop Superb Bird-of-Paradise, is found only in the ... The way the Vogelkop male dances for the female is also is distinctive, the steps being smooth instead ...