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Great Bowerbird
Chlamydera nuchalis(Jardine & Selby, 1830)
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- Order
- PASSERIFORMES
- Family
- Ptilonorhynchidae
- Genus
- Chlamydera
At a glance
The Great Bowerbird is a large bird, about 35–38 cm long, endemic to Australia. It can be seen year-round.
- Size
- 35–38 cm
- Origin
- Endemic
- Best seen
- Year-round
- Commonness
- Endemic
01 · Identification
How to tell it apart
What does a Great Bowerbird look like?
The Great Bowerbird is a large bird, about 35–38 cm long and weighing 153–265 g.
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
03 · When
When to look
When can you see a Great Bowerbird?
The Great Bowerbird is present across its Australian range year-round, so it can be seen in any month.
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04 · Voice
What it sounds like
Call
jimchurches · Mareeba QLD 4880, Australia
Call
Karl Tattersall · Limmen (Proposed), AU-NT-YM, AU-NT, AU
05 · Behaviour
Habits and haunts
What does a Great Bowerbird eat?
The Great Bowerbird feeds on fruit, foliage/herbs and terrestrial invertebrates, usually foraging in flocks or alone.
06 · Gallery
Plumage up close
6 photos
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