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Loria's satinbird

Cnemophilus loriae (Salvadori, 1895)

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The loria's satinbird (Cnemophilus loriae) is a species in the family Cnemophilidae, order Passeriformes. Recorded adults weigh 80.5 g to 91.8 g. Source checklists list it for 1 country: Australia. Its IUCN Red List status is Least Concern.

Loria's satinbird (Cnemophilus loriae)
Photo: John Gould · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

Quick facts about the loria's satinbird

Weight
80.5 g – 91.8 gsrc for Weight
Length
Not recorded
Lifespan
Not recorded
Diet
Frugivoresrc for Diet
Main food
Not recorded
Habitat
forestsrc for Habitat
Young per litter or clutch
Not recorded
Lifestyle
Perchingsrc for Lifestyle
Migration
Sedentarysrc for Migration
Conservation status
Least Concern (IUCN)src for Conservation status
Countries on record
1 countrysrc for Countries on record

Where does the loria's satinbird live?

Countries where Catalogue of Life checklists list the species. Many checklists carry no country data, so the list is often incomplete. It is not a range map.

The loria's satinbird is listed for 1 country.

Australia
  • Listed
  • Not listed
small islands are not drawn at this scale

The same countries as a list

  1. Australia

Why a country list is not a range map

Listed by: ITIS (scope: global), through the Catalogue of Life.

What is the loria's satinbird?

Quoted from WikipediaCC BY-SA 4.0

Loria's satinbird or velvet satinbird (Cnemophilus loriae), formerly known as Loria's bird-of-paradise, is a species of bird in the family Cnemophilidae.

It is found in the New Guinea Highlands.

Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.

From the Wikipedia article “Loria's satinbird” (en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Loria%27s_satinbird&oldid=1380703502), by Wikipedia contributors, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0). This block is kept separate from our own text.

Is the loria's satinbird endangered?

The loria's satinbird is listed as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List: it is not currently at risk of extinction.

  1. LCLeast Concern
  2. NTNear Threatened
  3. VUVulnerable
  4. ENEndangered
  5. CRCritically Endangered
  6. EWExtinct in the Wild
  7. EXExtinct

Category via Wikidata (CC0). Find the full assessment on the IUCN Red List. See all Least Concern species. What the categories mean.

How is the loria's satinbird classified?

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. phylumChordata
  3. classAves
  4. orderPasseriformes
  5. familyCnemophilidae
  6. genusCnemophilus
  7. SpeciesCnemophilus loriae (Salvadori, 1895)

Synonyms Cnemophilus loriae amethystinus, Cnemophilus loriae inexpectatus, Cnemophilus loriae loriae, Loria loriae

Other names and names in other languages (41)
  • Loria's bird-of-paradiseEnglish
  • Loria's bird-of-paradiseEnglish
  • Velvet satinbirdEnglish
  • Velvet satinbirdEnglish
  • طائر الساتان للورياArabic
  • طير الساتان المخمليArabic
  • ocell del paradís de LoriaCatalan
  • rajka horskáCzech
  • Blåsort SilkefuglDanish
  • LoriasamtvogelGerman
  • Loria-ParadiesvogelGerman
  • LoriaparadiesvogelGerman
  • nigra knemofiloEsperanto
  • Ave del paraíso de LoriaSpanish
  • Ave-del-paraíso de LoriaSpanish
  • rastasparatiisilintuFinnish
  • Cnémophile de LoriaFrench
  • crna svilnicaCroatian
  • Loria-paradicsommadárHungarian
  • Cendrawasih loriaIndonesian
  • Paradisea di LoriaItalian
  • Paradisea vellutataItalian
  • Uccello del paradiso di LoriaItalian
  • ルリフウチョウモドキJapanese
  • 로리아극락조Korean
  • tamsusis knemofilasLithuanian
  • Loria's SatijnvogelDutch
  • Loria's ParadijsvogelDutch
  • turkispannesatengfuglNorwegian
  • płatkonos czarnyPolish
  • pássaro-cetim-azulPortuguese
  • ave-de-cetim-de-loriaPortuguese
  • Чёрная лорияRussian
  • Райская птица-лорияRussian
  • saténovec čiernySlovak
  • Crna satenkaSerbian
  • svart satängfågelSwedish
  • Siyah AtlaskuşuTurkish
  • лорія чорнаUkrainian
  • 羅氏緞天堂鳥Chinese
  • 黑短嘴极乐鸟Chinese

Catalogue of LifeWikipediaiNaturalistWikidataIUCN Red List

Relatives of the loria's satinbird

Other species in the same genus Cnemophilus.

CompareLoria's satinbird vs Crested satinbird

Common questions

Answered only where our data holds the answer.

How big is the loria's satinbird?

An adult loria's satinbird weighs 80.5 g – 91.8 g, according to values recorded on Wikidata.

Where does the loria's satinbird live?

Catalogue of Life checklists list the loria's satinbird for 1 country: Australia. Checklist coverage is uneven, so the true range may be wider.

Is the loria's satinbird endangered?

The loria's satinbird is listed as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List, meaning it is not currently at risk of extinction.

What kind of animal is the loria's satinbird?

The loria's satinbird (Cnemophilus loriae) belongs to the family Cnemophilidae in the order Passeriformes.

Sources and how to cite this page

Data as of 2026-11-11. How this page is put together.

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APA

CreatureData. (2026). Loria's satinbird (Cnemophilus loriae). Retrieved from https://creaturedata.com/animals/lorias-satinbird

MLA

“Loria's satinbird (Cnemophilus loriae).” CreatureData, 2026, https://creaturedata.com/animals/lorias-satinbird.

BibTeX
@misc{lorias_satinbird_2026,
  title = {Loria's satinbird (Cnemophilus loriae)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/lorias-satinbird},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-11}
}