Category Archive: Dancing Birds

Dancing Bird Video – Superb Bird of Paradise

The Superb Bird of Paradise, Lophorina superba, is a small, passerine bird of the Paradisaeidae family (also sparrow, wren, cardinal, nuthatch). The Superb Bird of Paradise is distributed throughout rainforests of New Guinea. The male performs an amazing mating dance, as seen in this video (sans soundtrack).

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Dancing Bird Video- Manakin Moonwalking

The amazing moonwalk mating dance of the Manakin. The manakins are a family of some sixty small passerine bird species of subtropical and tropical mainland Central and South America, and Trinidad and Tobago.

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