Burung namdur (Bowerbirds)
Regent Bowerbird
Sericulus chrysocephalus
- legendaris
- 43 km/h
- Risiko rendah
Males are jet black with a molten gold crown. Decorates a stick bower with shells and berries to impress.
- Populasi
- Unquantified; described as locally fairly common, population trend suspected decreasing (not sufficiently rapid to approach Vulnerable thresholds)
- Habitat
- Subtropical/tropical moist lowland and montane rainforest and forest margins, including dense liana thickets and gullies; also uses adjacent open forest, urban areas and arable land, from sea level to about 1,000-1,030 m
- Fakta menarik
- Male Regent Bowerbirds mix plant material with saliva to make a grey-blue or green "paint," which they apply to the inner walls of their avenue-style bower using a wad of leaves as a brush — one of the few known cases of tool use in birds.
- Sebaran
- Endemic to eastern Australia, from central/southeast Queensland south through northeastern New South Wales, largely east of the Great Dividing Range (Extent of Occurrence approximately 315,000 km²)
- Makanan
- Mainly fruits and berries gleaned from the rainforest canopy and upper foliage, supplemented opportunistically with insects and other invertebrates; disperses seeds via fruit consumption
- Ukuran
- 0,27 m
- Masa hidup
- 9,4 tahun
