Hybrid bird
Rothschild's lobe-billed bird-of-paradise (Loborhamphus nobilis ), also known as the noble lobe-bill , is one of six enigmatic species of bird-of-paradise collected in Papua New Guinea for zoologist Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild . It is only known from the holotype .
In 1930, it, along with the five other collected species, was considered by Erwin Stresemann to be a hybrid between the long-tailed paradigalla and the superb bird-of-paradise , though doubts have been raised about the parentage.[ 1] However, a DNA analysis confirmed the hybrid identity.[ 2]
Notes
^ Fuller (1997).
^ Thörn et al. (2024).
References
Frith, Clifford B. & Beehler, Bruce M. (1998). The Birds of Paradise . Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-854853-9 .
Fuller, Errol (1997). The Lost Birds of Paradise . Oxford: Voyageur Press. ISBN 1-85310-566-X .
Thörn, Filip; Soares, André E. R.; Müller, Ingo A.; Päckert, Martin; Frahnert, Sylke; van Grouw, Hein; Kamminga, Pepijn; Peona, Valentina; Suh, Alexander; Blom, Mozes P. K.; Irestedt, Martin (2024-06-08). "Contemporary intergeneric hybridization and backcrossing among birds-of-paradise" . Evolution Letters : 1–15. doi :10.1093/evlett/qrae023 .