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bodyCendrawasih, The Bird of Paradise

In the dense forest of West Papua, there lives a group of birds with brightly coloured feathers. The birds are commonly known as Cendrawasih. Their colours are so fantastic that people believe that they are from Paradise. People think that nothing else on earth has such glittering colours.

In fact, only the males have these colourful feathers. The male birds display on the most colourful part of their feathers to attract females for mating. They try to attract as many females as possible before the end of the mating season. The males take no part in making a nest. Neither do they incubate the eggs nor rear the chicks. The female build a nest of leaves in a tree. It is about four to ten metres above the ground. They incubate two to four eggs for three weeks. By the time they leave the nest, the tail feathers of the male chick will have grown into a fantastic shape. The native of West Papua have used this bird’s feathers for their head decorations for many years.

This has never endangered the birds population. However, the birds populations is now in real danger since people from other places have started to use the colourful feathers for commercial hat making.

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In the dense forest of West Papua, there lives a group of birds with brightly coloured feathers. The birds are commonly known as Cendrawasih. Their colours are so fantastic that people believe that they are from Paradise. People think that nothing else on earth has such glittering colours.

In fact, only the males have these colourful feathers. The male birds display on the most colourful part of their feathers to attract females for mating. They try to attract as many females as possible before the end of the mating season. The males take no part in making a nest. Neither do they incubate the eggs nor rear the chicks. The female build a nest of leaves in a tree. It is about four to ten metres above the ground. They incubate two to four eggs for three weeks. By the time they leave the nest, the tail feathers of the male chick will have grown into a fantastic shape. The native of West Papua have used this bird’s feathers for their head decorations for many years.

This has never endangered the birds population. However, the birds populations is now in real danger since people from other places have started to use the colourful feathers for commercial hat making.