Greater bird-of-paradise

Greater bird-of-paradise
Male at Bali Bird Park
Female at Kuala Lumpur Bird Park
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
CITES Appendix II (CITES)[2]
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Paradisaeidae
Genus:	Paradisaea
Species:	P. apoda
Binomial name
Paradisaea apoda Linnaeus, 1758
Paradisaea apoda   Paradisaea raggiana

The greater bird-of-paradise (Paradisaea apoda) is a bird-of-paradise in the genus Paradisaea.

Carl Linnaeus named the species Paradisaea apoda, or "legless bird-of-paradise", because early trade skins to reach Europe were prepared without wings or feet by the indigenous New Guinean people; this led to the misconception that these birds were beautiful visitors from paradise that were kept aloft by their plumes and never touched the earth until death.^[3]

Greater bird-of-paradise on Indonesian rupiah
Obverse: Greater bird-of-paradise on a branch and face value.	Reverse: Face value surrounded by country and year.
Total 1,035,435,000 coins minted in 1971. Coin demonetized in 2002.