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A photo of a Great Bowerbird (Chlamydera nuchalis)
Great Bowerbird

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.
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Drew Harrison
Sunday 11 Jun 2023 - 12:00am
Australia
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Wintah Thompson
Saturday 10 Jun 2023 - 12:32pm
Australia
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Drew Harrison
Saturday 13 May 2023 - 12:00am
Australia
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Matthew Egan
Tuesday 04 Oct 2022 - 10:04am
Australia
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