Stephanie’s Astrapia is a bird-of-paradise of Papua New Guinea’s mountain forests. The male stands out for iridescent blue-green and copper-red plumage and a long tail.
The male has a black head and back with blue-green iridescence, a blue-green breast, and a copper-red band below it. Its central tail feathers are elongated; females are blackish brown with fine abdominal barring.
It eats fruit as well as insects, spiders, and frogs. Males display at leks, while females build the nest and incubate the eggs.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.