Golden Bowerbird
Sounds & Calls
Golden Bowerbird (Prionodura newtoniana)
The advertising call of the male Golden Bowerbird is a mechanical, rattling pulsing note repeated several times. Like other bowerbirds, Golden Bowerbirds make quite a range of mechanical squeals, scolds, rasps and whistles, especially if a male is tending a bower. This species has been recorded mimicking the sounds of at least 20 other bird species.
The Golden Bowerbird (Prionodura newtoniana) is the smallest of the bowerbird species and endemic to upland rainforest in far-north Queensland. Males are a rich golden yellow colour while the female is olive brown.
Listen to Golden Bowerbird Calls
The audio in the video below features the typical pulsing rattling calls of a male Golden Bowerbird near a bower. Recorded on the Artherton Tablelands, Queensland, Australia.
Cloud Forest Creek
The call of a male Golden Bowerbird can also be heard on the album – “Cloud Forest Creek“, recorded in Mount Hypipamee (The Crater) National Park, Queensland, Australia.
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Australian Bird Sounds
Other bird calls from the Australian bush:
- Bellbird, Crested
- Black Cockatoo, Red-tailed
- Black Cockatoo, Yellow-tailed
- Boobook, Australian
- Boobook, Tasmanian
- Bowerbird, Golden
- Bowerbird, Satin
- Bowerbird, Spotted
- Bronzewing, Common
- Budgerigar
- Butcherbird, Grey
- Butcherbird, Pied
- Catbird, Spotted
- Cassowary, Southern
- Chowchilla
- Cockatiel
- Cockatoo, Palm
- Coucal, Pheasant
- Crane, Sarus
- Cuckoo, Channel-billed
- Cuckoo, Fan-tailed
- Currawong, Black
- Currawong, Pied
- Dove, Diamond
- Drongo, Spangled
- Emu
- Fairywren, Superb
- Figbird, Australasian
- Flycatcher, Restless
- Friarbird, Noisy
- Frogmouth, Marbled
- Frogmouth, Papuan
- Frogmouth, Tawny
- Fruit Dove, Wompoo
- Honeyeater, Brown
- Honeyeater, Spiny-cheeked
- Kingfisher, Sacred
- Kite, Whistling
- Koel, Pacific
- Kookaburra, Blue-winged
- Kookaburra, Laughing
- Lyrebird, Superb
- Magpie, Australian
- Miner, Bell
- Miner, Noisy
- Nightjar, Large-tailed
- Nightjar, Spotted
- Oriole, Green
- Oriole, Olive-backed
- Owl, Australian Masked
- Owl, Eastern Barn
- Owl, Powerful
- Owl, Barking
- Owl, Lesser Sooty
- Owl, Greater Sooty
- Owlet-nightjar, Australian
- Pardalote, Spotted
- Parrot, Eclectus
- Pitta, Noisy
- Raven, Australian
- Robin, Eastern Yellow
- Robin, Flame
- Rosella, Crimson
- Rosella, Eastern
- Scrubfowl, Orange-footed
- Shrikethrush, Grey
- Shrikethrush, Little
- Songlark, Brown
- Songlark, Rufous
- Wagtail, Willie
- Whipbird, Eastern
- Whistler, Australian Golden
- Whistler, Rufous