Yellow-fronted Gardener Bowerbird

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

The Yellow-fronted Gardener Bowerbird is classified as Least Concern. Does not qualify for a more at risk category. Widespread and abundant taxa are included in this category.

Yellow-fronted Gardener Bowerbird's bower consists of a stick tower from 0.5 to 1.2 m high around the base of a sapling with a circular moss ring (1 m diameter) having a raised rim running around the bower. On the platform were found separate piles of green, yellow, and blue fruit. A displaying male picked up a blue (ripe) fruit, set against his golden crest and extended it to a female. More

The spectacular yellow-fronted gardener bowerbird—for years known only on the basis of three stuffed specimens sold to Lord Rothschild in 1895-—has now been sighted in what appears to be its sole habitat, a remote mountain range in western New Guinea. Scientists feared the bird had become extinct. Like most bowerbirds, all of which are confined to Australia and New Guinea. This species (Amblyornis flavifrons) builds elaborate gardens with neatly laid- out lawns. More

What he had seen was a yellow-fronted gardener bowerbird (Amblyornis flavi-frons). Though New York's American Museum of Natural History has two skins and the British Museum one (preserved since 1895), no Westerner had ever laid eyes on live specimens before, let alone observed their elaborate courtship ritual. The monogamous swan caresses the head and neck of his beloved while uttering soft cries. Male argus pheasants impress with an involved dance, spreading their wings to form a saucer for a finale. More

thought extinct-the yellow-fronted gardener bowerbird, Amblyornis flavifrons-was sighted in 1981 in western New Guinea. The males in many species have ornate, colorful plumage. Those species with less ornate plumage typically built the most elaborate bowers to attract the females. The species may be grouped by the type of bower constructed: maypole builders, avenue builders, stage builders, and those which build no bowers. More