![]() ![]() (1997) Courtship and Mating of the King of Saxony Bird of Paradise Pteridophora alberti in New Guinea with Comment on their Taxonomic Significance. Histoire naturelle des oiseaux de paradis et des épimaques. "Notes on the dating of Lesson's Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux de Paradis et des Épimaques" ". ^ Steven Gregory Edward Dickinson (2012). ![]() The first successful captive breeding program was at Singapore's Jurong Bird Park, in 2001. It has not been easy to breed them in captivity. The twelve-wired bird-of-paradise is evaluated as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, and is listed on Appendix II of CITES. They are found in flat lowlands and swamp forests, particularly throughout New Guinea and Salawati Island, Indonesia. Their diet consists mainly of fruits and arthropods in addition to frogs, insects, and nectar. The male displays on an exposed vertical perch with his breast-shield flared. The sole representative of the monotypic genus Seleucidis, the twelve-wired bird-of-paradise is a bird of lowland forests. Males use their 12 flank plume "wires" to make contact with the female by brushing across the female's face and foreparts. The display dance of the twelve-wired bird of paradise is called a wire-wipe display and it is performed by males to attract females by showing their flank plumes and bare pigmented thighs. Their feet are strong, large-clawed and pink in color. The female is a brown bird with black-barred buffy underparts. From the rear of these plumes emerge twelve blackish, wire-like filaments, which bend back near their bases to sweep forward over the bird's hindquarters. ![]() The male has a red iris, long black bill and rich yellow plumes along his flanks. The twelve-wired bird-of-paradise ( Seleucidis melanoleucus) is a medium-sized, approximately 33 cm (13 in) long, velvet black and yellow bird-of-paradise. ![]()
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