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 LC    Regent Bowerbird* Id (Atlas): 684
    Sericulus chrysocephalus Endemic

Description (10)
Image of Regent Bowerbird (Female)
 

Other Names (World)
Regent Bowerbird, Australian Regent Bowerbird, Regent Bird, Regentbird, Australian Regent Bird, Northern Regent Bird, Prince Regent, Golden Regent, Golden Regentbird, King Honeysucker, Golden-crowned Honeysucker

Family
Ptilonorhynchidae (Bowerbirds)

Size
24 - 28 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Lewin, 1808)

Derivation
Ser-ic'-ul-us - Gk, sericos, silken: chr˙'-so-ceph'-al-us - Gk, chrysos, golden; Gk, cephale, head

Abundance (Guide)
LMC - UC

Locally common but generally scarce. Sedentary or short seasonal movements from high to low country.

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical rain forest. Also, open sclerophyll forests and woodlands, farmlands, orchards, urban areas, rural gardens. From sea-level - 900 m.

Range (Guide)
Australia (B).

Image of Range of Regent Bowerbird
Coastal zone of central-eastern Australia from eastern Queensland (Connors and Clarke Ranges, on Eungella Plateau) south, with distributional gap about Fitzroy R valley inland of Rockhampton, to eastern New South Wales (to area immediately north of Sydney).
 
Eastern Australia, from Clarke Range near Mackay south to the Hawkesbury River, New South Wales.
 
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
Vulnerable.

For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Habits
Forage singly, in twos or in small flocks or loose congregations of up to 20. Sometimes in groups of up to 70.

Food
Omnivorous. Mainly fruit, but also flowers, nectar, leaves and animal material.

Voice


Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (5)...)

 
Regent Bowerbird (Sericulus chrysocephalus) [XC352951]
     by Mike FitzGerald from Seal Rocks, Great Lakes Council, New South Wales, Australia (call)

 
Regent Bowerbird (Sericulus chrysocephalus) [XC755837]
     by Mike Fitzgerald from Lynwood, Ballina Shire, New South Wales, Australia (courtship at bower with female)

Breeding Season (Guide)
October - January.

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Nest
Flimsy, saucer-shaped, composed of thin dry sticks and twigs, lined with thinner twigs, usually hidden in a mass of foliage or vines from 2 - 20 m or more above the ground.

Eggs (Guide)
2, rarely 3; pale buff-grey, with delicate brown to black scrawls and blotches and some underlying marks of lavender; oval; about 37 x 26 mm. Incubation: about 18 days; by female.

Young
Semi-altricial, nidicolous. Fledge in captivity in about 16 - 19 days.

Subspecies
No subspecies.

May form a superspecies with Masked Bowerbird (Sericulus aureus) and Masked Bowerbird (Sericulus aureus). Two documented cases of hybridization with Satin Bowerbird (Ptilonorhynchus violaceus). Birds from Blackall Range (south-eastern Queensland) proposed as subspecies rothschildi on basis of supposedly richer orange crown of male, but studies indicate no constant geographical difference in this character.


References
See References.

The Field Guide to the Birds of Australia Pizzey, G., and Knight, E., 1997, Angus & Robertson, Sydney ISBN 0 207 19691 5
Field Guide to Australian Birds Morecombe, M., 2000, Steve Parish Publishing Pty Ltd. ISBN 1 876282 10 X
Field Guide to the Birds of Australia Simpson, K., and Day, N., 1999, 6th Edition, Viking ISBN 0 670 87918 5
Reader's Digest Complete Book of Australian Birds 1988, 2nd Edition, Reader's Digest ISBN 0 949819 99 9
What Bird is That? 1984, Revised Edition, Angus & Robertson, Sydney ISBN 0 207 14846 5
Handbook of Australian, New Zealand & Antarctic Birds 1990 - , Oxford University Press, Melbourne ISBN 0 19 553244 9

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