| NOUN | a greater bird of paradise | greater birds of paradise | |
NOUN article.ind sg | pl
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- The greater bird-of-paradise was formally described by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus in 1758 in the tenth edition of his "Systema Naturae" under the current binomial name "Paradisaea apoda".
- The next year he introduced the greater bird of paradise ("Paradisaea apoda") to the island in an attempt to save the species from overhunting for the plume trade in its native New Guinea.
- The ornamental structure as a whole might have resembled that of the extant greater bird-of-paradise.
- In this program Attenborough fulfills a childhood ambition, developed after reading a book as a nine-year-old, to see the greater bird-of-paradise in display; and records the spectacular birdlife of the New Guinea forest, in particular the various birds-of-paradise.
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