| Wahnes's parotia | |
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| Male, with female behind | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Paradisaeidae |
| Genus: | Parotia |
| Species: | P. wahnesi
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| Binomial name | |
| Parotia wahnesi Rothschild, 1906
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Wahnes's parotia (Parotia wahnesi) is a medium-sized passerine of the bird-of-paradise family (Paradisaeidae). This species is distributed and endemic to the mountain forests of Huon Peninsula and Adelbert Mountains, northeast Papua New Guinea. The diet consists mainly of fruits and arthropods.
The name honors the German naturalist Carl Wahnes, who collected in New Guinea.[2]
Wahnes's parotia is evaluated as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.[1] It is listed on Appendix II of CITES; its threat classification is C2a(1). This indicates that less than 10,000 adult birds exist, fragmented into subpopulations of less than 1000, and that they are probably declining.
- ^ a b BirdLife International (2016). "Parotia wahnesi". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T22706183A94054836. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22706183A94054836.en. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
- ^ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael (2003). Whose Bird? Men and Women Commemorated in the Common Names of Birds. London: Christopher Helm. p. 356.