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Archbold's Bowerbird (papuensis)

Archboldia papuensis papuensis Rand, AL 1940

Archbold's bowerbird is a medium-sized, dark grey songbird with brown iris, grey feet and black bill. They can grow up to 37 cm long. The male has narrow black scalloping with some trace of golden yellow crown feathers and dark grey forked tail, that shorter than the wing. Both sexes are similar. The female is smaller than male, with yellow patch on wings and has no crown feathering. Source: Wikipedia




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Classification
Order:
  Passeriformes
Family:
  Ptilonorhynchidae
Genus:
   Archboldia
Scientific:
  Archboldia papuensis papuensis

Original description

Citation:
  Rand, AL 1940

Reference:
   Amer. Mus. Novit. no.1072 p.9

Protonym:
  Archboldia papuensis

Type locality:
  Bele River (2,200 m.), 18 km. north of Lake Habbema, Snow Mountains.

Link:
  https://digitallibrary.amnh.org/handle/2246/3717/

Avibase identifiers

Avibase ID:
  1146BB4A502AE807

Avibase ID:
  avibase-1146BB4A

Short link:
  https://avibase.ca/1146BB4A

Taxonomic Serial Number:
  TSN: 713596

Geographic range:

  • Archboldia papuensis papuensis: western New Guinea (locally in Nassau Mountains)
Source: Clements checklist
English:
Archbold's Bowerbird (papuensis)
French:
Jardinier d'Archbold (papuensis)

Authorities recognizing this taxonomic concept:

Avibase taxonomic concepts (current):
Archbold's Bowerbird (papuensis) ( Archboldia papuensis papuensis)
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 2023 (May 2023):
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Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 2024 (Oct 2024):
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Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 2025 (Nov 2025):
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Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 01 (August 2013):
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Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 02 (May 2014):
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Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 03 (March 2015):
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Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 04 (Aug 2016):
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Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 06 (Feb 2018):
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Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 07 (Feb 2020):
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Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 08 (Feb 2021):
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Avilist 2025:
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HBW and BirdLife Taxonomic Checklist v5 (Dec 2020):
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HBW and BirdLife Taxonomic Checklist v6 (Dec 2021):
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HBW and BirdLife Taxonomic Checklist v6b (Jul 2022):
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HBW and BirdLife Taxonomic Checklist v9 (Oct 2024):
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HBW and BirdLife Taxonomic Checklist v10 (Oct 2025):
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Commission internationale pour les noms français des oiseaux (1993):
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Clements, version 2021:
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Handbook of the Birds of the World (vol 1-16):
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Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive (31/01/2015):
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Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive (03/07/2017):
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Handbook of the Birds of the World and Birdlife (Dec 2017):
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Peters' Check-list of the Birds (original):
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Peters' Check-list of the Birds (2nd edition):
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Sibley and Monroe (1993):
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Sibley and Monroe (1993, including corrections up to 1998):
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Sibley and Monroe, Birds of the World Version 2.0:
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Zoonomen - Zoological Nomenclature Resource:
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Zoonomen - Zoological Nomenclature Resource:
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Taxonomic status:

Species status: nominal subspecies

This taxon is a subspecies of Archboldia papuensis

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Catalan: arquer d'Archbold
Czech: Lemcík papuánský, lemčík papuánský
Danish: Kronet Løvhyttefugl
German: Archbold Laubenvogel, Archboldlaubenvogel, Archbold-Laubenvogel
English: Archbold's Bowerbird, Archbold's Bowerbird (papuensis)
Spanish: Capulinero de Archbold
Spanish (Spain): Pergolero de Archbold
Estonian: mägi-lehtlalind
Finnish: Kultahuntulavastaja
French: Jardinier d'Archbold, Jardinier d'Archbold (papuensis), Oiseau-berceau d'Archbold
Hungarian: Archbold-lugasépítő
Indonesian: Burung namdur hitam, Namdur Archbold
Italian: Giardiniere di archbold, Uccello giardiniere di Archbold
Japanese (romaji): papuaniwashidori
Japanese: パプアニウァシドリ, パプアニワシドリ
Scientific: Archboldia papuensis, Archboldia papuensis papuensis, Archboldia paquensis
Lithuanian: Arčboldija
Dutch: Archbold-prieelvogel, Archbolds Prieelvogel
Norwegian: Gultoppgartner
Polish: parkietnik, parkietnik czarny
Russian: Арчбольдия
Slovak: záhradkár horský
Swedish: Gulkronad lövsalsfågel
Ukrainian: Паркетник
Chinese: 阿氏园丁鸟
Chinese (Traditional): 雪山園丁鳥

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