Amblyornis flavifrons Rothschild, 1895
Golden-fronted bowerbird, Yellow-fronted gardener bowerbird
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Last record: 1895
Rediscovered in 1979
IUCN RedList status: Least Concern
Distribution
Foja (=Foya) Mountains, Irian Jaya, New Guinea (west)
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Rothschild 1895 Novit.Zool. 2 p.480, or, 1896 Novit.Zool. 3 pl.1 fig.3,4
Other references:
Beehler, B. M., Pratt, T. K. and Zimmerman, D. A. (1986). Birds of New Guinea. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press.
BirdLife International 2012. Amblyornis flavifrons. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2015.2. . Downloaded on 04 July 2015.
Diamond, Jared M. (1982). Rediscovery of the Yellow-fronted Gardener Bowerbird. Science 216(4544): 431-434.
Diamond, Jared M. (1985). New distributional records and taxa from the outlying mountain ranges of New Guinea. Emu 85: 65-91.
Frith, C. B. and Frith, D. W. (2004). The bowerbirds. Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press.
Gilliard, E. T. (1969). Birds of Paradise and Bowerbirds. Garden City, New York: Natural History Press.
Scheffers, Brett R., Yong, Ding Li, Harris, J. Berton C., Giam, Xingli and Sodhi, Navjot S. (2011). The world’s rediscovered species: back from the brink? PLoS ONE 6(7): e22531. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0022531 [Supporting Information (Table S1)]