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  • Both the fire-maned bowerbird and Wahnes's parotia (Parotia wahnesi) are considered vulnerable.

    Northern New Guinea montane rain forests 2008

  • The rarest bird species in PNG, fire-maned bowerbird has the most circumscribed geographic range known for any species on mainland PNG.

    Northern New Guinea montane rain forests 2008

  • It shares Wahnes's parotia (Parotia wahnesi) and the olive-streaked honeyeater (Ptiloprora guisei) with the mountains of the Huon Peninsula, but the fire-maned bowerbird (Sericulus bakeri) is found nowhere else on Earth but this ecoregion.

    Northern New Guinea montane rain forests 2008

  • Ghastly cowboys ride demonic fire-maned horses, condemned to eternally pursue fire-snorting steers across the horizon in a rodeo nightmare, of which Cash, in a lapse of faith perhaps, momentarily imagines himself a part.

    PopMatters Jayson Harsin 2010

  • For a time, the movie itself seems rather straightforward and reality-bound; the "incident" in the title of the book is the snatching of a purse from Marguerite (Sabine Azéma), an eccentric, fire-maned dentist with a

    DCist 2010

  • Ghastly cowboys ride demonic fire-maned horses, condemned to eternally pursue fire-snorting steers across the horizon in a rodeo nightmare, of which Cash, in a lapse of faith perhaps, momentarily imagines himself a part.

    PopMatters 2010

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