Other Scientific Names
Amblyornis newtonianus [Christidis and Boles (2008)]
Other Names (World)
Golden Bowerbird, Golden Gardener, Queensland Gardener, Newton's Bowerbird, Newton's Golden Bowerbird, Newton's Gardener-Bowerbird, Meston Bowerbird
Uplands of wet tropics of north-eastern Queensland (from Thornton Range and Mt Windsor Tableland south to Seaview-Paluma Range), in north-eastern Australia.
Highlands, above 900 m, of north-eastern Queensland, from near Cooktown to Mount Spec, near Townsville.
Rarity Status
Currently this species is not classified as a rarity in this country OR information has not been updated.
Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).
Status LC
Some of the species habitat has been cleared for agriculture, but a large area remains, and all logging has ceased. There is some fragmentation of its former habitat, but in other areas, rainforest is rapidly expanding.
Habits
Usually singly or in twos, often at or around bowers. Group of 5 or 6 when foraging. Often associating with other species including other bowerbirds.
Food
Omnivorous. Mainly fruit, and aalso some invertebrates and occasionally flowers and flower buds.
Nest
Loose, deep, bowl-shaped, composed of dead leaves, thin strips of bark, leaf-skeletons and moss, bound with vine-tendrils and rootlets, in a hollow in the side of a tree, usually with a few meters of the ground.
Eggs (Guide)
Usually 2, sometimes 1; slightly lustrous, white, off-white of faint creamy-white; oval to elliptical; about 36 x 25 mm. Incubation: about 21 -23 days; by female.
Young
Semi-altricial, nidicolous. Fledge in 17 - 20 days.
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