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- large bowerbird of northern Australia (同)Chlamydera nuchalis
- remarkable or out of the ordinary in degree or magnitude or effect; "a great crisis"; "had a great stake in the outcome"
- a person who has achieved distinction and honor in some field; "he is one of the greats of American music"
- of major significance or importance; "a great work of art"; "Einstein was one of the outstanding figures of the 20th centurey" (同)outstanding
- relatively large in size or number or extent; larger than others of its kind; "a great juicy steak"; "a great multitude"; "the great auk"; "a great old oak"; "a great ocean liner"; "a great delay"
- any of various birds of the Australian region whose males build ornamented structures resembling bowers in order to attract females (同)catbird
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- (規模・範囲などが)『大きい』,巨大な / 『多数の』;『多量の』 / 『偉大な』,すぐれた;《the Great》《称号・肩書に用いて》 / (身分・地位などの)高い / 気高い,崇高な / 《名詞の前にのみ用いて》重要な,重大な / 《人を表す名詞の前にのみ用いて》大の,たいへんな / 《話》すてきな,すばらしい / 《名詞的に》《the great》偉大な人たち,重要人物 / とても,すごく / とてもよく(very well) / 大物,花形
- ニワシドリ(オーストラリアあたりに産する鳥の一種;雄は雌を引きつけるために塔のような物を造る)
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Great bowerbird |
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Conservation status
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Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)[1]
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Scientific classification |
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Animalia |
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Chordata |
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Aves |
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Passeriformes |
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Ptilonorhynchidae |
Genus: |
Chlamydera |
Species: |
C. nuchalis |
Binomial name |
Chlamydera nuchalis
Jardine & Selby, 1830 |
Great bower bird's bower near Cooktown, Australia
Male showing beginnings of bright plumage on nape of neck
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. 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.
Bower
The bower is a twin-walled avenue-type bower approximately 1 metre long and 45 cm high. It is typically located under a shrub or leafy branch. The ends of the bower are scattered with white and green objects - stones, bones, shells and leaves and small man-made objects such as plastic and bottle caps. Within the bower itself is sometimes placed clear glass.
Uniquely among bowerbirds, groups of young males will attend a single bower concurrently, "practising" their bower-building skills prior to establishing their own bower for mating purposes.
References
- ^ BirdLife International (2012). "Chlamydera nuchalis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.2. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
External links
- BirdLife Species Factsheet
Ptilonorhynchidae (Bowerbirds)
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- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Chordata
- Class: Aves
- Order: Passeriformes
- Family: Ptilonorhynchidae
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Genus
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Species
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Ailuroedus
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- White-eared catbird (A. buccoides)
- Spotted catbird (A. melanotis)
- Green catbird (A. crassirostris)
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Scenopooetes
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- Tooth-billed catbird (S. dentirostris)
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Archboldia
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- Archbold's bowerbird (A. papuensis)
- Sanford's bowerbird (A. sanfordi)
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Amblyornis
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- Vogelkop bowerbird (A. inornata)
- MacGregor's bowerbird (A. macgregoriae)
- Streaked bowerbird (A. subalaris)
- Golden-fronted bowerbird (A. flavifrons)
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Prionodura
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- Golden bowerbird (P. newtoniana)
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Sericulus
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- Flame bowerbird (S. aureus)
- Fire-maned bowerbird (S. bakeri)
- Regent bowerbird (S. chrysocephalus)
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Ptilonorhynchus
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- Satin bowerbird (P. violaceus)
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Chlamydera
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- Western bowerbird (C. guttata)
- Spotted bowerbird (P. maculatus)
- Great bowerbird (C. nuchalis)
- Yellow-breasted bowerbird (C. lauterbachi)
- Fawn-breasted bowerbird (C. cerviniventris)
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Hybrid: Rawnsley's bowerbird (Ptilonorhynchus violaceus x Sericulus chrysocephalus)
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English Journal
- A comparative study of rhodopsin function in the great bowerbird (Ptilonorhynchus nuchalis): Spectral tuning and light-activated kinetics.
- van Hazel I1, Dungan SZ1, Hauser FE1, Morrow JM2, Endler JA3, Chang BS1,2,4.
- Protein science : a publication of the Protein Society.Protein Sci.2016 Jul;25(7):1308-18. doi: 10.1002/pro.2902. Epub 2016 Mar 4.
- Rhodopsin is the visual pigment responsible for initiating the phototransduction cascade in vertebrate rod photoreceptors. Although well-characterized in a few model systems, comparative studies of rhodopsin function, particularly for nonmammalian vertebrates are comparatively lacking. Bowerbirds ar
- PMID 26889650
- Visual effects in great bowerbird sexual displays and their implications for signal design.
- Endler JA1, Gaburro J, Kelley LA.
- Proceedings. Biological sciences / The Royal Society.Proc Biol Sci.2014 Apr 2;281(1783):20140235. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2014.0235. Print 2014 May 22.
- It is often assumed that the primary purpose of a male's sexual display is to provide information about quality, or to strongly stimulate prospective mates, but other functions of courtship displays have been relatively neglected. Male great bowerbirds (Ptilonorhynchus nuchalis) construct bowers tha
- PMID 24695430
- Functional characterization of spectral tuning mechanisms in the great bowerbird short-wavelength sensitive visual pigment (SWS1), and the origins of UV/violet vision in passerines and parrots.
- van Hazel I, Sabouhanian A, Day L, Endler JA, Chang BS1.
- BMC evolutionary biology.BMC Evol Biol.2013 Nov 13;13:250. doi: 10.1186/1471-2148-13-250.
- BACKGROUND: One of the most striking features of avian vision is the variation in spectral sensitivity of the short wavelength sensitive (SWS1) opsins, which can be divided into two sub-types: violet- and UV- sensitive (VS & UVS). In birds, UVS has been found in both passerines and parrots, grou
- PMID 24499383
Japanese Journal
- オオニワシドリにおけるオスの性的シグナル間の相互作用とメスの選り好みへの影響
- オオニワシドリにおけるオスの性的シグナル間の相互作用とメスの選り好みへの影響
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