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title: "Pássaro-arquiteto-cinza"
description: "Chlamydera nuchalis — Aves. 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 and Townsville."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/pt/animal/great-bowerbird
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Pássaro-arquiteto-cinza

> Chlamydera nuchalis — Aves. 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 and Townsville.

- Scientific name: *Chlamydera nuchalis*
- Category: `birds` (Aves)
- Habitats: `forest` (Floresta), `savanna` (Savana)
- iNaturalist observations: 2356
- Wikidata: [Q1077705](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1077705)
- iNaturalist taxon: [14505](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/14505)

## Names

- en: Great Bowerbird
- de: Grauer Laubenvogel
- es: Pergolero Grande
- fr: Jardinier à nuque rose
- nl: Grijze prieelvogel
- pt: Pássaro-arquiteto-cinza
- pl: Jedwabnica szara

## Countries with the most observations

AU (2284)

## Summary

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 and Townsville. 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…

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_bowerbird

## Photo

![Pássaro-arquiteto-cinza](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/great-bowerbird/medium.jpg)

Photo: Don Wellmann · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/191538122

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/great-bowerbird?lang=pt` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).