Tooth-billed Bowerbird

Scenopoeetes dentirostris

Near Threatened · IUCN Red List

NTNear ThreatenedEndemicFruitForestCup nestMedium · 163 g

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The tooth-billed bowerbird is a medium-sized (approximately 27 centimetres (11 in) long) bowerbird. It is a stocky olive-brown bird with brown-streaked buffish white underparts, grey feet, a brown iris and a distinctive serrated bill. The sexes are similar, but the female is slightly smaller than the male.

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When to see the Tooth-billed Bowerbird

One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 8 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is October, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Tooth-billed Bowerbird

Regular range

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

About the Tooth-billed Bowerbird

The tooth-billed bowerbird, also known as the stagemaker bowerbird or tooth-billed catbird, is a species of passerine bird in the bowerbird family Ptilonorhynchidae. It is the only species placed in the genus Scenopoeetes. It is found in the Cape York Peninsula and northeast Queensland of northeast Australia.

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Easily confused with

Side by side: Tooth-billed Bowerbird vs Western Bowerbird

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