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Fawn-breasted Bowerbird (Chlamydera cerviniventris) Size: 26-30 cm Weight: 145-180 g

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Physical description Click here for a physical description Fawn-breasted Bowerbirds are small bowerbirds. They have cryptic plumage. The top and back of the head and neck are grey, with a brownish tinge, while the entire rest of the upperparts is dark brownish-grey, with lighter tips to the feathers. The chin, throat, ear coverts, the sides of the neck and the front, down to the chest, are streaked grey, with a dark brownish-grey base. The striation down the front extends into the orange-buff chest, while the lower parts of the front, from lower chest to undertail coverts, plus the upper legs, are all plain orange-buff. Fawn-breasted Bowerbirds to not have a nuchal crest. The irises are dark. The strong, slightly down-curved bill is dark-grey, while the legs and feet are a lighter shade of grey.

Taxonomy, classification See Fawn-breasted Bowerbird at Wikipedia .

Range, habitat, finding this species Click here for information on habitat and range The overall distribution of this species can be assessed, and specific locations where birds have been spotted can be found, based on individual sighting reports submitted by birdwatchers to ebird.org . The global distribution of the Fawn-breasted Bowerbird is available HERE . Fawn-breasted Bowerbirds populate parts of New Guinea and far north-eastern Australia. In Australia Fawn-breasted Bowerbirds are present only along the East coast of the northern part of Cape York peninsula, to about the latitude of Coen, QLD, in the South. Fawn-breasted Bowerbirds have a preference for lowland eucalypt and paperbark woodland, often near denser vegetation.

Sightings Click here for sighting information B. Hensen reports spotting a Fawn-breasted Bowerbird at Iron Range NP, Cape York peninsula, QLD, in December 2018. M. Eaton reports finding a Fawn-breasted Bowerbird at Gunshot Creek, Cape York peninsula, QLD, in August 2019.

Photos

ADULT

Sex unknown

Frontal view of an adult Fawn-breasted Bowerbird (photo courtesy of B. Hensen)
[Iron Range NP, Cape York peninsula, QLD, December 2018]

Near-frontal view of a Fawn-breasted Bowerbird (photo courtesy of B. Hensen)
[Iron Range NP, Cape York peninsula, QLD, December 2018]

Near-lateral view of a Fawn-breasted Bowerbird (photo courtesy of B. Hensen)
[Iron Range NP, Cape York peninsula, QLD, December 2018]

Lateral view of a Fawn-breasted Bowerbird (photo courtesy of B. Hensen)
[Iron Range NP, Cape York peninsula, QLD, December 2018]

Lateral view of a Fawn-breasted Bowerbird (photo courtesy of B. Hensen)
[Iron Range NP, Cape York peninsula, QLD, December 2018]

Lateral/ventral view of a Fawn-breasted Bowerbird (photo courtesy of M. Eaton)
[Gunshot Creek, Cape York peninsula, QLD, August 2019]

Breeding information

Twitcher's tip

A bower is NOT a nest - it is a male bird's courting alley. Nests, built by female birds, are in fact kept well away from bowers.

Behaviour

Social behaviour: Territorial

Mobility: Sedentary/roaming

Elementary unit: Solitary

Male birds are sedentary, females are roaming.

Bowers

Male Fawn-breasted Bowerbirds try to attract as many females to their territory, and thus their bower, as they can.

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