Golden-fronted Bowerbird

Taxobox
name = Golden-fronted Bowerbird
status = LC | status_system = IUCN3.1
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Aves
ordo = Passeriformes
familia = Ptilonorhynchidae
genus = "Amblyornis"
species = "A. flavifrons"
binomial = "Amblyornis flavifrons"
binomial_authority = Rothschild, 1895The Golden-fronted Bowerbird, "Amblyornis flavifrons" is a medium-sized, approximately 24cm long, brown bowerbird. The male is rufous brown with an elongated golden crest extending from its golden forehead, dark grey feet and buffish yellow underparts. The female is an unadorned olive brown bird.

An Indonesian endemic, the male builds a tower-like "maypole-type" bower decorated with colored fruit.

Originally described in 1895 based on trade skins, this elusive bird remained a mystery for nearly a hundred years, until 1981 when the American scientist Jared Diamond discovered the home ground of the Golden-fronted Bowerbird at Foja Mountains in Papua.

In December 2005, led by Bruce Beehler, an international team of eleven scientists from the United States, Australia and Indonesia traveled to the unexplored areas of Foja Mountains and took the first photographs of the bird [http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/02/photogalleries/newguinea/photo3.html] .

The Golden-fronted Bowerbird is evaluated as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.

References

* Database entry includes justification for why this species is of least concern

External links

* [http://www.birdlife.org/datazone/species/index.html?action=SpcHTMDetails.asp&sid=5174&m=0 BirdLife Species Factsheet]
* [http://www.redlist.org/search/details.php?species=1081 IUCN Red List]