Satin bowerbird | |
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Male at bower | |
Female | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Passeriformes |
Family: | Ptilonorhynchidae |
Genus: | Ptilonorhynchus Kuhl, 1820 |
Species: | P. violaceus
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Binomial name | |
Ptilonorhynchus violaceus (Vieillot, 1816)
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The satin bowerbird (Ptilonorhynchus violaceus) is a bowerbird endemic to eastern Australia.
A rare natural intergeneric hybrid between the satin bowerbird and the regent bowerbird is known as Rawnsley's bowerbird.