Tooth-billed Bowerbird (Scenopoeetes dentirostris) [XC621573]
by Arnoud B van den Berg from Lake Eacham, Tablelands Regional, Queensland, Australia (song)
Tooth-billed Bowerbird (Scenopoeetes dentirostris) [XC743421]
by Patrik \u00c5berg from Crater Lakes National Park (Lake Barrine), Queensland, Australia (call, dawn song)
Nest
Saucer-shaped, frail, composed of thin dry sticks, lined with finer twigs, usually in dense foliage or in a vine-mass, from 10 - 25 m above the ground.
Eggs (Guide)
2; slightly lustrous, cream or buff-cream; oval; about 42 x 29 mm. Incubation: by female.
Young
Probably semi-altricial, nidicolous. Fledge in about 22 days.
Subspecies
No subspecies.
Birds from Johnstone R described as a geographical subspecies, minor, but differences from those in rest of range considered trivial.
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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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