- Spotted Bowerbird
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Spotted Bowerbird Conservation status Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Aves Order: Passeriformes Family: Ptilonorhynchidae Genus: Ptilonorhynchus Species: Ptilonorhynchus maculatus Binomial name Chlamydera maculata
Gould, 1837The Spotted Bowerbird (Ptilonorhynchus maculatus) is a bowerbird widely distributed across inland Queensland and New South Wales.
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Conservation status
Australia
Spotted Bowerbird are not listed as threatened on the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999.
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]
References
- ^ Department of Sustainability and Environment, Victoria
- ^ Department of Sustainability and Environment, Victoria
- ^ Victorian Department of Sustainability and Environment (2007). Advisory List of Threatened Vertebrate Fauna in Victoria - 2007. East Melbourne, Victoria: Department of Sustainability and Environment. pp. 15. ISBN 978-1-74208-039-0.
- BirdLife International 2004. Chlamydera maculata. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 25 July 2007.
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Bowerbirds (Family: Ptilonorhynchidae) Genera and species ScenopooetesPrionoduraPtilonorhynchusWestern Bowerbird • Spotted Bowerbird • Great Bowerbird • Yellow-breasted Bowerbird • Fawn-breasted BowerbirdHybrid Rawnsley's BowerbirdThis songbird-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.