Victoria's Riflebird
RareGBIF 60.0·Dongniao Rarity Index9.30
英文名：Victoria's Riflebird（学名：Ptiloris victoriae），是雀形目极乐鸟科的鸟类。23–25厘米。注意分布范围。雄鸟：类似缩小型雄性 大掩鼻风鸟，在蓝绿色喉盾与具橄榄绿光泽的下体之间有更宽的黑色胸带。雌鸟：类似缩小型雌性 大掩鼻风鸟，但下体颜色更深、更显皮黄色；胁部具稀疏深色 V 形斑点的波状线条至轻微横斑；飞行中翼羽露出棕红色斑块。习性与炫耀大致类似 大掩鼻风鸟。
Victoria's Riflebird
23-25 cm. Note range. Male: like small male Paradise Riflebird, with broader black breastband between blue-green throat shield and olive-green glossed underparts. Female: like small female Paradise Riflebird but underparts deeper, buffer; irregular lines of sparse, dark, V-shaped spots to slight barrings on flanks; shows rufous patch in wing feathers in flight. Habits and display generally like Paradise Riflebird.
- Voice
- distinctive rasping 'y-a-a-a-ss' or 'yaass yaass', about once every four minutes; also deep, mellow whistle.
- Habitat
- rainforests, mostly in mountains/foothills; nearby wetter eucalypt forests; paperbark woodlands; occasionally open woodlands.
- Breeding
- Sept.-Jan.
- Range & Status
- mostly mountain rainforests of ne. Q from near Cooktown s. to Mt Spec NP, near Townsville; also lowland rainforests, some coastal islands. Fairly common. Sedentary.
