Rajka, masters of avian one-man show

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People Kayak tribe living in paradise. More precisely in the vicinity of the river bird paradise. Deep tropical forests around it just a glance upward. The VRSC treetop living creatures there, who only beautify the nearby islands and northern Australia. Oni paradise of Papua New Guinea. Promised Land birds, which many people regard as beautiful in the world.

Greek Tomato Baiyer the river not only for the natives, but for many travelers and ornithologists. Birds of paradise to the meeting so unprecedented number and variety of colors and metallic shine to their feathers literally moving sight. Rajka but suffered the fate of most extraordinary natural beauties. On the one hand, and the path of worship of the flag State of Papua - New Guinea, and the other cruel hunts.

Unearthly beauty without legs

By the mid-19th century, Europe had no idea rajkach. Then enterprising European explorers and adventurers in striated ocean waters far Orient steer turned to New Guinea. They felt the new discoveries and shops, those on the horizon, however, offered more than expected. In Europe the first time brought the light orange skin with a rich bird feathers.Should one trait - they were missing legs, which the natives of skins curtailed. Europeans, however long nebadali. Birds of a distant land they already by feathers seemed too beautiful creatures on earth, and imagined that we still fly the territory where the legs just do not need. And because the territory could only be a paradise, entranced birds is called paradise, a bird of paradise (Paradisaea). Account of human folly and the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus, when you named them different organisms World Latin names. Light orange bird of paradise more (Paradisaea etc.), the skins of many Europeans when electrified, so in Latin called legless bird of paradise.

Skrehotalci wet with passion

Few would say the view,they have relatives in the Ravens. That is only until the songbird bird of paradise will open beak to sing. In addition to strong rough, krakoraveho combines voice is nimble and behavior. The differences can be assigned to, inter alia, the size and the above mentioned bill. Rajka are smaller than the Ravens, more tomato species grow about 33 cm in length, about a jackdaw. Another cleansing or facial feature is the root of the beak to be taken by birds of paradise for feathered leather covers. On the night of sleep, but now with the first rays of the sun shall be issued for food. Since the shape and length of the beak, which varies between species rajcimi depends diet composition. A short and wide beak pecking handle nutmeg, bananas and figs, a long wonderful turn feed on insects, small lizards and small tree frog.All birds of paradise, without distinction, then certainly combines irresistible passion for the bath. The main living space for them to remain above the crown of trees, which also form their nests. They live an average of around 12 years of age in captivity, but also more than doubled.

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