Great Bowerbird

When to see the Great Bowerbird

One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 11 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is July, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Great Bowerbird

The map shades 1 country with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

About the Great Bowerbird

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

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Easily confused with

Spotted BowerbirdChlamydera maculataAt 29 cm in length, spotted bowerbirds are intermediate in size among the bowerbirds, but are rather slim and compact. Western BowerbirdChlamydera guttataThe western bowerbird is smaller than the other bowerbird it shares its range with, the great bowerbird. 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.