King Bird-of-paradise

Cicinnurus regius (Linnaeus, 1758)

≈18 cmLength52 gWeight

The adult male has two slender tail feathers, each tipped with an emerald-green disk.

Busiest months: August · Most records: Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Singapore

Least Concern

How to identify

Field marks

Adult male mostly metallic crimson
Adult male has a narrow dark green breast band and whitish lower breast
Adult male has scapulars arranged in fans, with green tips
Adult male has slender tail feathers tipped with green disks

Where and when it's recorded

King Bird-of-paradise has been recorded at 27 of the 8,171 birding hotspots we track, in 3 countries and regions.

Records by month Southern Hemisphere

Where it's recorded most

Tabubil-Kiunga Rd – Km 17Papua New Guinea229 records
MalagufukIndonesia205 records
Kwatu LodgePapua New Guinea104 records

More places

Malagufuk villageIndonesia96 records
Alex Waisimon's PropertyIndonesia93 records
Nimbokrang – KM 8Indonesia83 records
NimbokrangIndonesia55 records
Nimbokrang – Jalan Korea swamp forestIndonesia54 records
Elevala and Ketu RiversPapua New Guinea49 records
Windsor Nature Park including Venus Drive and Venus LoopSingapore41 records

Countries and regions with the most records

Indonesia Papua New Guinea Singapore

eBird records via GBIF up to 2024-12-31. A record means someone listed it; more records partly mean more birders, not more birds.

About

The king bird-of-paradise (Cicinnurus regius) is a passerine bird of the Paradisaeidae (bird-of-paradise) family. It is considered by the IOC checklist to be the only member of the genus Cicinnurus, although the genus Diphyllodes is closely related and is subsumed under Cicinnurus by many other authorities.

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