Vogelkop Superb Bird-of-Paradise Confirmed as New Species

The Vogelkop Superb Bird-of-Paradise is found only in New Guinea’s far-western Bird’s Head, or Vogelkop, region. In a paper published in the journal PeerJ, ornithologist Dr. Edwin Scholes of Cornell University and field biologist and photographer Dr. Tim Laman of Harvard University ‘show and tell’ half-a-dozen ways this bird is distinct from the more widespread...