Frank Gardner and Benedict Allen journey through Papua New Guinea. Gardner is pursuing a lifelong dream to see birds of paradise, while Allen is returning to the tribe he abandoned 30 years ago.

Anna Bais, Chairlady of Miss Bird of Paradise PNG (MBoP), proudly announces that Miss PNG, May Hasola, represented the nation ...

Papua New Guinean conservationists have successfully bred the Raggiana Bird of Paradise in captivity for the second time in history. It's been a four-year journey to get here, and the young bird ...

A senior government official has expressed outrage over a recent social media incident involving disparaging comments aimed ...

We analyze the intricate male bird of paradise mating dance and explain how and why he performs the ritual in this way.

They have been cataloguing the courtship displays of every species of this stunning family of birds. But recently they noticed something new ... Papua in search of the Wilson’s bird of paradise ...

Together, the team took a closer look at biofluorescence in birds-of-paradise, which live across eastern Australia, Indonesia, and New Guinea, finding that the birds also fluoresce when exposed to ...

Until now, no one had looked for the glowing property in birds-of-paradise, which are native to Australia, Indonesia and New Guinea and are famous for their elaborate mating displays. In a study ...