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The twelve-wired bird-of-paradise (''Seleucidis melanoleucus'') is a medium-sized, approximately long, velvet black and yellow bird-of-paradise. The male has a red iris, long black bill and rich yellow plumes along its flanks. From the rear of these plumes emerge twelve blackish, wire-like filaments, which bend back near their bases to sweep forward over the birds hindquarters. The female is a brown bird with black-barred buffy underparts. Its feet are strong, large-clawed and pink in color. The sole representative of the monotypic genus ''Seleucidis'', the twelve-wired bird-of-paradise is a bird of lowland forests. The male displays on an exposed vertical perch with its breast-shield flared. Its diet consists mainly of fruits and arthropods in addition to frogs, insects and nectar. It is found in flat lowlands and swamp forests,〔 particularly throughout New Guinea and Salawati Island, Indonesia. The twelve-wired bird-of-paradise is evaluated as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species,〔 and is listed on Appendix II of CITES. It has not been easy to breed it in captivity. The first successful captive breeding program was at Singapore's Jurong Bird Park, in 2001.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.wrs.com.sg/parks-info-about-parks.html )〕 File:Seleucidis melanoleucus-20090124.jpg|Female File:Seleucidis melanoleucus - 20030511.jpg|A male in Jurong Bird Park == References == 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Twelve-wired bird-of-paradise」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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