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Crested Satinbird
14 21 001 Cnemophilus loriae m
Male
Information
Common Name Velvet Satinbird and formerly known as Loria's Bird-of-paradise
Range Indonesia and Papua New Guinea.
Scientific Classification
Kingdom Animalia
Class Aves
Order Passeriformes
Family Cnemophilidae
Genus Cnemophilus
Species Cnemophilus loriae
Conservation Status
LCSpecies
Least Concern

The Loria's satinbird or velvet satinbird (Formerly known as the Loria's bird-of-paradise) (Cnemophilus loriae), is a species of satinbird in the Cnemophilidae family. It is found in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.

The common name and Latin binomial commemorate the Italian ethnographer Lamberto Loria.

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