Lesser Bird-of-paradise - World of Birds 031215

Lesser Bird-of-paradise - World of Birds 031215

Lesser BoP?

Lesser or Greater BoP ( I can get the picture clear enough on my screen ) but in any case NOT a Red Bird-of-Paradise !

It looks like lesser to me, but I'm not an expert. By any chance, did you hear anything about a king bird of paradise at Bronx? There was mention of one a while back.

Lesser for sure

Last I heard, Bronx keeps four bird-of-paradise species: Red, Lesser, Raggiana, and Twelve-Wired. The Twelve-Wired are all off-show and I'm not sure how many they have. On my last visit, there were 1.1 Red on-exhibit and 0.1 Lesser in the neighboring enclosure. Further in the house there used to be 1.1 Raggiana, though I believe they've since been brought off-exhibit.

This is a Lesser, and it also means the zoo has gotten a new male for their female

~Thylo

Thanks for all the info, Thylo. It'd be cool if Twelve-Wired went on display in the future.

12 wired are not kept.
The zoo has 4 reds and around 10 lessers.

threeple61 said:

12 wired are not kept.
The zoo has 4 reds and around 10 lessers.

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Interesting. Where'd you get that information? Glad they keep so many Lessers. When did they go out of Twelve-Wired? Also, how many Raggiana do they keep?

~Thylo

I know that the Dallas World Aquarium has been wanting twelve-wired bop for a while, so if they went to a different facility, that may be where. It would be weird for the zoo to just ditch the species altogether, though.