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The
Tooth-billed Catbird,
Scenopoeetes dentirostris also known as
Stagemaker Bowerbird is a medium-sized, approximately 27cm long, stocky olive-brown
bowerbirdThis article is about the family of birds called bowerbirds. For the band, see Bowerbirds .Bowerbirds and catbirds make up the bird family Ptilonorhynchidae. The family has 20 species in eight genera. These are medium-sized passerines, ranging from the Golden Bowerbird to the Great Bowerbird...
with brown-streaked buffish-white below, a grey feet, brown
irisThe iris is a membrane in the eye, responsible for controlling the diameter and size of the pupil and the amount of light reaching the retina. "Eye color" is the color of the iris, which can be green, blue, or brown. In some cases it can be hazel...
and unique tooth-like
billThe beak, bill or rostrum is an external anatomical structure of birds which is used for eating and for grooming, manipulating objects, killing prey, probing for food, courtship and feeding young...
. Both sexes are similar, however the female is slightly smaller than the male. It is the only member in monotypic genus
Scenopoeetes.
An
AustraliaAustralia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the continental mainland , the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans...
n
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, the Tooth-billed Catbird is distributed to mountain forests of northeast
QueenslandQueensland is a state of Australia that occupies the north-eastern section of the mainland continent. It is bordered by the Northern Territory to the west, South Australia to the south-west and New South Wales to the south. To the east, Queensland is bordered by the Coral Sea and Pacific Ocean...
. Its diet consists mainly of
fruitThe term fruit has different meanings dependent on context, and the term is not synonymous in food preparation and biology. Fruits are the means by which flowering plants disseminate seeds, and the presence of seeds indicates that a structure is most likely a fruit, though not all seeds come from...
s and young leaves of forest trees.
The male is polygamous and builds a display-court or
"stage-type bower", decorated with fresh green leaves laid with pale underside uppermost. The leaves are collected by the male by chewing through the leaf stalk and old leaves are removed from the display-court. The display-court consists of a cleared area containing at least one tree trunk used by the male for perching. Upon the approach of a female the male drops to the ground and displays.
A common species in its limited habitat range, the Tooth-billed Catbird is evaluated as Least Concern on the
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of Threatened Species.
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