Paradisaea raggiana
date: label: Collection Date
content: 1 Sep 2011
name: label: Collector
content: Captive
label: Expedition
content: American Zoo Consortium Project
notes: label: Notes
content: The following notes are from Ron Johnson, formerly of the Miami Zoo, who purchased the bird. This bird was purchased as a chick in 1985 at a market outside of Mt. Hagen, PNG where it was being sold for 'stew'. It was transferred to the Baiyer River Sanctuary and given a metal band (#198) where it lived for about a year before being exported to the Miami Zoo in 1986. It lived there in an aviary until 1992 when the aviary was destroyed by hurricane Andrew. The bird was recaptured a couple of days after the hurricane and then transferred to the San Diego Zoo where it lived until it died.
label: Notes
content: Thank you for the opportunity to visit and continue our research last week at the Smithsonian. Again, it was a highlight to view the Raggiana Bird of Paradise skeletal prep, I collected in 1985 in the Baiyer River Sanctuary District, PNG as part of the American Zoo Consortium Project. The band was from Roy Mackay, Director of Baiyer River. The Raggiana was a wild fledgling, purchased for 2 Kina, in a nearby market - being offered for soup. I am attaching two pictures. One of the fledgling, the day of acquisition, and the second one is a picture taken in the Wings of Asia exhibit at Miami Metrozoo where he resided until August 24, 1992, when Hurricane Andrew destroyed the facility. He was recaptured two days later and then sent to San Diego Zoo, where he lived and produced over 20 offspring and several grand-offspring. -Ron Johnson
label: Record Last Modified
content: 10 Jul 2024
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Baiyer River Sanctuary, near, Western Highlands Province, New Guinea, Papua New Guinea, Australia
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content: Vertebrate Zoology
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content: Birds
publisher: label: Published Name
content: Paradisaea raggiana
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Vertebrate Zoology - Birds Division
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 2061438
label: Other Numbers
content: Field Number : JRS 593
label: Other Numbers
content: Field Number : Necropsy # 0054439
label: Other Numbers
content: Field Number : ZSSD Acc # A0392880
label: USNM Number
content: 647304
taxonomicName: label: Taxonomy
content: Animalia, Chordata, Vertebrata, Aves, Passeriformes, Paradisaeidae
physicalDescription: label: Preparation
content: Skeleton: Whole
label: Sex
content: Male