Get the latest Flash Player to see this video.
Standardwing Bird-of-paradise (Semioptera wallacii) video
A male courtshipdancing in the morning. Two females are watching the dance (one very briefly).
- Recorded 15 August 2009
- Added to IBC 50 weeks 17 hours ago
- Pieter de Groot Boersma
- Location Foli, Halmahera, Maluku Islands (Indonesia) (ssp halmaherae).
- Duration 54 sec
Rating
More material of this species
- 4.3Male during da...Maluku Islan..., Oct 2011
- 4.2A male courtsh...Maluku Islan..., Aug 2009
- 4Standardwing b...Maluku Islan..., Oct 2011
- 3.8A bird preenin...Maluku Islan..., Aug 2009
- 3.8A bird at a le...Maluku Islan..., Aug 2009
- 3.5Two males disp...Maluku Islan..., Aug 1997
Recent material by Pieter de Groot Boersma
- 3An adult perch...Suriname, Apr 2011
- 2.8A female/winte...Netherlands, Aug 2011
- 1.7A female/winte...Netherlands, Aug 2011
- 1.7A distant view...Netherlands, Aug 2011
- 3.8A bird calling...Suriname, Jul 2011
- 4A bird at dawn...Suriname, Jul 2011
Attenborough visited this same site a few years prior! His tree was cut down since then though... My footage is probably better ;) 11 males were dancing an hour's walk from a small fishing village.