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Great Bowerbird
Chlamydera nuchalis(Jardine & Selby, 1830)
Endemic
- Order
- PASSERIFORMES
- Family
- Ptilonorhynchidae
- Genus
- Chlamydera
- 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.
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05 · Behaviour
Habits and haunts
06 · Gallery
Plumage up close
6 photos
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