Species Ptilonorhynchus violaceus (Vieillot, 1816)

Male Satin Bowerbird at bower

© Copyright Jim Longworth, Canberra

Male Satin Bowerbird adding a stick to his bower

© Copyright Jim Longworth, Canberra

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Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Flinders (FLI), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Broadleaf thicket/shrubland, subtropical rainforest, wet sclerophyll forest.

Common Name References

Schodde, R. & Mason, I.J. 1999. The Directory of Australian Birds : Passerines. A Taxonomic and Zoogeographic Atlas of the Biodiversity of Birds in Australia and its Territories. Collingwood, Australia : CSIRO Publishing x 851 pp. (Satin Bowerbird)

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