In December 2005, an international team of eleven scientists from the United States, Australia and Indonesia, led by ornithologist and Conservation International vice-president Bruce Beehler traveled to the unexplored areas of Foja Mountains and rediscovered the Bronze Parotia among other little known and new species.

Berlepsch's Parotia (Parotia berlepschi)

Queen Carola's Parotia often includes the enigmatic Berlepsch's Parotia as a subspecies, but information gained when it was rediscovery in 2005 hardened the case for considering it a separate species.

Beehler and colleagues, however, returned with the first ever photographs of two species of birds, the Berlepsch's Parotia (Parotia berlepschi) and the Golden-fronted Bowerbird (Amblyornis flavifrons), that previously were known only from a few specimens.

Berlepsch's Parotia (Parotia berlepschi)

Beehler and colleagues, however, returned with the first ever photographs of two species of birds, the Berlepsch's Parotia (Parotia berlepschi) and the Golden-fronted Bowerbird (Amblyornis flavifrons), that previously were known only from a few specimens.