Golden-fronted Bowerbird

About the Golden-fronted Bowerbird

The golden-fronted bowerbird is a medium-sized, approximately 24 cm long, brown bowerbird that is endemic to the Foja Mountains in New Guinea. The male is rufous brown with an elongated golden crest extending from its golden forehead, dark grey feet and buffish yellow underparts. The female is an unadorned olive brown bird.

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Where it lives

When to see it

Peak activity in November · a summer visitor species across most of its range

Easily confused with

Streaked BowerbirdAmblyornis subalarisThe streaked bowerbird is a species of bowerbird, native to the Bird's Tail Peninsula. Vogelkop BowerbirdAmblyornis inornataThe birds are about 25 cm (9.8 in) in overall in length. 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.