The Greater Bird of Paradise (Paradisaea apoda) is a member of the Paradisaeidae family. It is endemic to the southwestern lowland and hill forests of New Guinea. From 1909 to 1958, a small population introduced by Sir William Ingram in an attempt to save the species from excessive poaching for the plume trade survived on Little Tobago Island of West Indies, though, the birds are considered to be since extinct in that region. Carolus Linnaeus named the species Paradisaea apoda or "legless bird of paradise", because early skins of the bird were traded to Europe with the feet removed, and this brought the misconception that the birds floated in the air and never touched the ground until death.