Spotted Bowerbird

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Spotted Bowerbird

Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Ptilonorhynchidae
Genus: Chlamydera
Species: C. maculata
Binomial name
Chlamydera maculata
Gould, 1837

The Spotted Bowerbird (Chlamydera maculata) is a bowerbird widely distributed across inland Queensland and New South Wales.

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[edit] Conservation Status

[edit] Australia

Spotted Bowerbird are not listed as threatened on the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999.

[edit] State of Victoria, Australia

  • The Spotted Bowerbird is listed as threatened on the Victorian Flora and Fauna Guarantee Act (1988).[1] Under this Act, an Action Statement for the recovery and future management of this species has been prepared.[2]
  • On the 2007 advisory list of threatened vertebrate fauna in Victoria, the Spotted Bowerbird is listed as endangered.[3]

[edit] References

  1. ^ Department of Sustainability and Environment, Victoria
  2. ^ Department of Sustainability and Environment, Victoria
  3. ^ Victorian Department of Sustainability and Environment (2007). Advisory List of Threatened Vertebrate Fauna in Victoria - 2007. East Melbourne, Victoria: Department of Sustainability and Environment, 15. ISBN 978-1-74208-039-0. 

[edit] External links

"Vocal Mimicry in Spotted Bowerbirds" - field study report by Fiona Randall

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