Great Bowerbird
Photo · (c) Wolfgang Ahlmer, some rights reserved (CC BY)

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Great Bowerbird

Chlamydera nuchalis(Jardine & Selby, 1830)

Endemic
Order
PASSERIFORMES
Commonness
Endemic
Best seen
Year-round

01 · Identification

How to tell it apart

The great bowerbird is a common and conspicuous resident of northern Australia, from the area around Broome across the Top End to Cape York Peninsula and as far south as Mount Isa and Townsville. Favoured habitat is a broad range of forest and woodland, and the margins of vine forests, monsoon forest, and mangrove swamps.

Description · wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0

02 · Where

Where to find it

Breeding range
North Australia

03 · When

When to look

Months this species is recorded across its Australian range.

  1. Jan
  2. Feb
  3. Mar
  4. Apr
  5. May
  6. Jun
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  9. Sep
  10. Oct
  11. Nov
  12. Dec

05 · Behaviour

Habits and haunts

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