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Chlamydera nuchalis
The Great Bowerbird is a large greyish bird with dark bill. The upper parts are fawn grey with darker markings on top of head. The wings are brown with white markings on the feathers. The male has a lilac crest on back of neck, but this is usually only seen when it displays for a female. The male builds a large bower under a shrub or leafy branch. It is a platform of twigs with an avenue of twigs about a metre long and 45cm high. At each end of the bower it makes a display area scattered with white stones, bones, shells and leaves.
eucalypt woodlands, scrub land, parkland, timbered areas near creeks.
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Pleeeeeease add this to the Animal Architecture mission! http://www.projectnoah.org/missions/8082...
oh you have to love the bower birds, except when they start stealing from you :P great series
You've added a third picture! What lovely white shells he's using to induce his sweetheart to mate!
Thanks Leanne
Oh wow! What a fantastic find!
Bower pic added
What a fantastic picture of a bower (picture #2)!
Please consider adding this spotting to the Animal Architecture mission at http://www.projectnoah.org/missions/8082...
I hope you can follow one of your bowerbird spottings to it's bower and share some cool pictures with us!