About the Golden Bowerbird
The golden bowerbird is a species of passerine bird in the bowerbird family Ptilonorhynchidae. It is endemic to Queensland in Australia, where it is limited to the Atherton region.
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The male golden bowerbird has a brown head and brown wings which are bright yellow-gold underneath, as are the tail, crest and nape. The female is olive brown with ash-gray underparts. Immatures look similar to the female except their eyes are brown. This is the smallest species of bowerbird.
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Where it lives
When to see it
Peak activity in October · a variable species across most of its range
Easily confused with
Fawn-breasted BowerbirdChlamydera cerviniventrisThe fawn-breasted bowerbird is a medium-sized, up to 32 cm (13 in) long, bowerbird with a greyish brown spotted white plumage, a black bill, dark brown iris, yellow mouth and an orange buff below.
MacGregor's BowerbirdAmblyornis macgregoriaeMacGregor's bowerbird is a medium-sized, up to 26 cm long, olive brown bowerbird of New Guinea's mountain forests, roughly the size and shape of an American robin or a Eurasian blackbird.
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