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Great bowerbird, Chlamydera nuchalis



The great bowerbird (Chlamydera nuchalis) 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. Favoured habitat is a broad range of forest and woodland, and the margins of vine forests, monsoon forest, and mangrove swamps.

As with most members of the bowerbird family, breeding considerations dominate the lifecycle: females nest inconspicuously and raise their young alone, while the males spend most of the year building, maintaining, improving, defending, and above all displaying from their bowers. Only a male with a successful bower can attract mates.

The great bowerbird is the largest of the bowerbird family and is 33 to 38 cm long and fawny grey in colour. Males have a small but conspicuous pink crest on the nape of the neck.

Great bowerbird, Chlamydera nuchalis

Range map
Range map from www.oiseaux.net - Ornithological Portal Oiseaux.net
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Bower
The bower is a twin-walled avenue-type bower approximately 1 metre long and 45 cm high. It is typically located under a shrub or leafy branch. The ends of the bower are scattered with white and green objects - stones, bones, shells and leaves and small man-made objects such as plastic and bottle caps. Within the bower itself is sometimes placed clear glass.

Uniquely among bowerbirds, groups of young males will attend a single bower concurrently, "practising" their bower-building skills prior to establishing their own bower for mating purposes.

Bower

noun a pleasant shady place under trees or climbing plants in a garden or wood.

• poetic/literary a summer house or country cottage.

• poetic/literary a lady's private room or bedroom.

verb [with OBJ.] poetic/literary shade or enclose (a place or person): [as ADJ.] (bowered) the bowered pathways into the tangle of vines.

ORIGIN Old English bur dwelling, inner room, of Germanic origin; related to German Bauer ‘birdcage’.



Great bowerbird, Chlamydera nuchalis
A bower - We can see all the colourful things the bird have collected
Mareeba July 2016


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Conservation status
Great bowerbird, Chlamydera nuchalis
Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)
IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.2.
International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 26 November 2013.


From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Sighted: (Date of first photo that I could use) 23 of July 2016
Location: Wangi Falls

Great bowerbird, Chlamydera nuchalis
Great bowerbird - Chlamydera nuchalis - Wangi Falls - 23 July 2016

Great bowerbird, Chlamydera nuchalis
Great bowerbird - Chlamydera nuchalis - Wangi Falls - 23 July 2016

Great bowerbird, Chlamydera nuchalis
Great bowerbird - Chlamydera nuchalis - Wangi Falls - 23 July 2016

Great bowerbird, Chlamydera nuchalis
Great bowerbird - Chlamydera nuchalis - Wangi Falls - 23 July 2016



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