Masked Bowerbird

When to see the Masked Bowerbird

One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 6 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is August, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Masked Bowerbird

The map shades 2 countries with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

About the Masked Bowerbird

The masked bowerbird is endemic to rainforests of New Guinea. It is one of the most brilliantly coloured bowerbirds. The male is a medium-sized bird, up to 25cm long, with flame orange and golden yellow plumage, elongated neck plumes and yellow-tipped black tail. It builds an "avenue-type" bower with two side walls of sticks. The female is an olive brown bird with yellow or golden below.

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Easily confused with

Flame BowerbirdSericulus ardensThe flame bowerbird is one of the most brilliantly coloured bowerbirds. Fire-maned BowerbirdSericulus bakeriThe fire-maned bowerbird is a medium-sized, approximately 27 cm (11 in) long, bowerbird that inhabits and endemic to the forests of the Adelbert Range in Papua New Guinea. Regent BowerbirdSericulus chrysocephalusThe regent bowerbird is a medium-sized, up to 25 cm long, sexually dimorphic bowerbird.