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Amblyornis

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Amblyornis is a genus of passerine birds belonging to the bowerbird family Ptilonorhynchidae. The species are endemic to the mountains of New Guinea.

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GENUS

  1. KingdomAnimalia
  2. PhylumChordata
  3. ClassAves
  4. OrderPasseriformes
  5. FamilyPtilonorhynchidae
Observations recorded2,654

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Amblyornis is a genus of passerine birds belonging to the bowerbird family Ptilonorhynchidae. The species are endemic to the mountains of New Guinea.

Birds in this genus build "maypole-type" bowers in which vegetation is arranged around a central vertical sapling or tree-fern.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Amblyornis” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.