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FEATHERS OF LOVE or Birds of Paradise - Coggle Diagram
FEATHERS
OF LOVE or Birds of Paradise
Carola’s parotia
beautiful
feathers
dance king
of the birds of paradise
New Guinea
ballerina dance.
performance finally attracts the attention of
one of the females
New Guinea
It seems that the more extreme
the male’s costume and colors, the better his
chance of attracting a mate.
Some dance on the ground
the special mating game
of the birds of paradise
absurd theater
Others
perform high in the trees.
butterfly dance
in the Past
Logging (business of cutting trees} oil prospecting, and
mining also present dangers to New Guinea’s
forests.
1900s,
80,000 skins a year were exported from New
Guinea for European ladies’ hats
local people are still permitted to hunt older male birds, leaving younger males to
continue breeding
hunted for the feathers of birds
An illegal market in feathers still
exists
biologist Ed Scholes
life is pretty comfortable , good enviroment
“The usual rules of
survival aren’t as important here as the rules of
successful mating,” Scholes adds.
predators are few
45 brightly colored
birds of paradise
Fruit and insects are abundant all year round
David Mitchel
is relying on
the help of local villagers to record where the
birds display and what they eat.
a conservationist
e hopes to not
only gather data, but also encourage protection
of the birds’ habitat.