Yellow-Breasted Satinbird (IMAGE)

University of Kansas

Yellow-Breasted Satinbird

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This yellow-breasted satinbird (Loboparadisea sericea) is among the songbirds research shows first dispersed out of Australia about 23 million years ago through early islands in the Indonesian archipelago into Asia and subsequently the entire globe.

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Brett Benz, American Museum of Natural History.

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