Editing Bird-of-paradise (section)

===Hunting===
Hunting of birds of paradise has occurred for a long time, possibly since the beginning of human settlement.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Andaya|first=Leonard Y.|date=2017|title=Flights of fancy: The bird of paradise and its cultural impact|journal=Journal of Southeast Asian Studies|language=en|volume=48|issue=3|pages=372–389|doi=10.1017/S0022463417000546|issn=0022-4634|doi-access=free}}</ref> It is a peculiarity that among the most frequently hunted species, males start mating opportunistically even before they grow their ornamental plumage. This may be an adaptation to maintaining population levels in the face of hunting pressures, which have probably been present for hundreds of years.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Laska|first1=Mark S.|last2=Hutchins|first2=Michael|last3=Sheppard|first3=Christine|last4=Worth|first4=Wendy|last5=Hundgen|first5=Kurt|last6=Bruning|first6=Don|date=Jun 1992|title=Reproduction by Captive Unplumed Male Lesser Bird of Paradise Paradisaea minor : Evidence for an Alternative Mating Strategy?|url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1071/MU9920108|journal=Emu - Austral Ornithology|language=en|volume=92|issue=2|pages=108–111|doi=10.1071/MU9920108|issn=0158-4197}}</ref>

The naturalist, explorer, and author [[Alfred Russel Wallace]] spent six years in the region, which he chronicled in ''[[The Malay Archipelago]]'' (published in 1869). His expedition team shot, collected, and described many specimens of animals and birds, including the great, king, twelve-wired, superb, red, and six-shafted birds of paradise.<ref>Wallace, Alfred Russel. ''The Malay Archipelago''. London: Macmillan, 1869.</ref>

[[Plume hunting|Hunting to provide plumes]] for the millinery trade was extensive in the late 19th and early 20th century,<ref>{{cite book | last = Cribb | first = Robert | year = 1997 | chapter = Birds of paradise and environmental politics in colonial Indonesia, 1890–1931 | editor1-last = Boomgaard | editor1-first = Peter | editor2-last = Columbijn | editor2-first = Freek | editor3-last = Henley | editor3-first = David | title = Paper landscapes: explorations in the environmental history of Indonesia | pages = 379–408 | publisher = KITLV Press | location = Leiden, The Netherlands | isbn = 90-6718-124-2}}</ref> but today the birds have legal protection except for hunting at a sustainable level to fulfill the ceremonial needs of the local tribal population. In the case of ''[[Pteridophora]]'' plumes, scavenging from old [[bowerbird]] bowers is encouraged.