Great Bower Bird

Scientific Name
Chlamydera nuchalis
Category
Birds

In a famous Western Arnhem Land bird story about emu and black-faced cuckoo shrike, great bower bird accompanies back-faced cuckoo shrike when he spears a kangaroo.

Djuwe na-gudji ga-rrabugurrme.
Great bowerbirds lay a single egg.

In the Kundedjnjenghmi audio you can hear Terah Guymala talking about the collecting habits of djuwe as well as the call of djuwe.

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Kunwinjku term
djuwe
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Kundjeyhmi term
djuwe
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Kuninjku term
djuwe
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Kune/Mayali term
djuwe
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Kundedjnjenghmi term
djuwe
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