Great Bowerbird

Great Bowerbird

Chlamydera nuchalis

Least ConcernNear ThreatenedVulnerableEndangeredCritically Endangered Endemic
30–40% · Possible
overall probability at Kakadu National Park
522 Verified records at Kakadu National Park
June Best month highest sighting rate
☀️ Diurnal When it's active during daytime hours (6am–6pm)

The great bowerbird (Chlamydera nuchalis) is a common and conspicuous resident of northern Australia, from the area around Broome across the Top End to Cape York Peninsula and as far south as Mount Isa and Townsville. Favoured habitat is a broad range of forest and woodland, and the margins of vine forests, monsoon forest, and mangrove swamps. As with most members of the bowerbird family, breeding considerations dominate the lifecycle: females nest inconspicuously and raise their young alone, while the males spend most of the year building, maintaining, improving, defending, and above all displaying from their bowers. Only a male with a successful bower can attract mates. The great bowerbird is the largest of the bowerbird family and is 33 to 38 cm long and fawny grey in colour. Males have a small but conspicuous pink crest on the nape of the neck. Wikipedia →

30–40% of wildlife watchers report a Great Bowerbird sighting in Kakadu National Park, based on 522 days of visitor records from GBIF citizen-science data.

📅 Monthly Probability

40–50
Jan
30–40
Feb
40–50
Mar
20–30
Apr
30–40
May
40–50
Jun
40–50
Jul
30–40
Aug
30–40
Sep
30–40
Oct
20–30
Nov
40–50
Dec

☀️ When They're Spotted

Most active during daytime hours (6am–6pm) · across all parks (global)

☀️Diurnal
☀️🌙🌙12am6am12pm6pm12am

Global Distribution

Where this species is recorded worldwide. Restricted to human observations from 2019 onwards — the same kind of record and the same period the probabilities on this page are built from, so collar-tracking studies, camera-trap arrays and museum specimens are excluded. Around Santa Rosa that removes 5,924 GPS fixes from a handful of tagged jaguars.

where this species is recorded (GBIF density — it tracks where observers go, not how likely a sighting is)  ·  parks where it occurs — tap a pin for the sighting probability there

Parks Where Found

# Park Country Probability
1 Nitmiluk National Park 🇦🇺 Australia
70–80%
2 Litchfield National Park 🇦🇺 Australia
40–50%
3 Kakadu National Park 🇦🇺 Australia
30–40%
4 Daintree National Park 🇦🇺 Australia
<5%

Quick answers

What are the chances of seeing a Great Bowerbird in Kakadu National Park?

About 38% of wildlife watchers report a Great Bowerbird sighting in Kakadu National Park, based on 522 days of visitor records from GBIF citizen-science data.

When is the best time to see Great Bowerbird in Kakadu National Park?

June has the highest sighting rate for Great Bowerbird in Kakadu National Park in our monthly data.

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