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
Habitat
Subtropical and tropical rain forest. Also, open sclerophyll forests and woodlands, farmlands, orchards, urban areas, rural gardens. From sea-level - 900 m.
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).
Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).
Regent Bowerbird (Sericulus chrysocephalus) [XC755944]
by id from Lynwood, NSW, Australia (song, likely an immature practice bower, with immature practice song)
Regent Bowerbird (Sericulus chrysocephalus) [XC352518]
by Andrew Spencer from Seal Rocks, Great Lakes Council, New South Wales, Australia (call)
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.
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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