Whitehead’s Broadbill

Birds > Perching Birds

Whitehead’s Broadbill (Calyptomena whiteheadi), named after the renowned British explorer and naturalist John Whitehead, is the largest and most magnificent member of the broadbill family (Calyptomenidae). Strictly endemic to the misty mountain cloud forests of...

Tooth-billed Bowerbird

Birds > Passeriformes

The Tooth-billed Bowerbird (Scenopoeetes dentirostris), also known as the stagemaker bowerbird, is a singular avian architect native exclusively to the mist-draped upland rainforests of Queensland’s Wet Tropics in northeastern Australia. Unlike avenue- or...

Guianan Cock-of-the-rock

Birds > Cotingas

The Guianan Cock-of-the-rock (Rupicola rupicola) is an extraordinary cotingid bird famed throughout the ornithological world for its vivid, almost radioactive neon-orange plumage and theatrical courtship displays. Inhabiting the remote, boulder-strewn rainforests of...

Swallow-tailed Cotinga

Birds > Cotingidae & Cotingas

The Swallow-tailed Cotinga (Phibalura flavirostris) is a strikingly charismatic and visually arresting passerine bird endemic to the threatened montane Atlantic Forest biome of southeastern South America. Renowned for its extraordinarily long, deeply forked,...
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