Amblyornis

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| image = Amblyornis subalaris by Bowdler Sharpe.jpg

| image_caption = Streaked bowerbird, Amblyornis subalaris

| taxon = Amblyornis

| authority = Elliot, 1872

| type_species = Ptilorhynchus inornatus

| type_species_authority = Schlegel, 1871

}}

Amblyornis is a genus of passerine birds belonging to the bowerbird family Ptilonorhynchidae. The species are endemic to the mountains of New Guinea.

Birds in this genus build "maypole-type" bowers in which vegetation is arranged around a central vertical sapling or tree-fern.{{ cite book | last1=Frith | first1=C.B. | last2=Frith | first2=D.W. | year=2009 | chapter=Family Ptilonorhynchidae (Bowerbirds) | editor1-last=del Hoyo | editor1-first=J. | editor2-last=Elliott | editor2-first=A. | editor3-last=Sargatal | editor3-first=J. | title=Handbook of the Birds of the World | volume=14: Bush-shrikes to Old World Sparrows | location=Barcelona, Spain | publisher=Lynx Edicions | isbn=978-84-96553-50-7 | pages=350-403 [366] | chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/handbookofbirdso0014unse/page/366/mode/1up | chapter-url-access=registration }}{{Cite journal | last1=Ericson | first1=P.G.P. | last2=Irestedt | first2=M. | last3=Nylander | first3=J.A.A. | last4=Christidis | first4=L. | last5=Joseph | first5=L. | last6=Qu | first6=Y. | date=2020 | title=Parallel evolution of bower-building behavior in two groups of bowerbirds suggested by phylogenomics | journal=Systematic Biology | volume=69 | issue=5 | pages=820-829 | doi=10.1093/sysbio/syaa040 | doi-access=free | pmc=7440736 }}

Taxonomy

The genus Amblyornis was introduced in 1872 by the American zoologist Daniel Giraud Elliot to accommodate a single species, Ptilorhynchus inornatus Schlegel, 1871, the Vogelkop bowerbird, which is the type species by monotypy.{{ cite journal | last=Elliot | first=Daniel Giraud | author-link=Daniel Giraud Elliot | date=1872 | title=Descriptions of two new genera of Paradiseidae, with remarks on some of the species | journal=Ibis | series=Series 3 | volume=2 | pages=111-114 [113] | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8618071 }}{{ cite book | editor1-last=Mayr | editor1-first=Ernst | editor1-link=Ernst Mayr | editor2-last=Greenway | editor2-first=James C. Jr | year=1962 | title=Check-List of Birds of the World | volume=15 | publisher=Museum of Comparative Zoology | location=Cambridge, Massachusetts | page=176 | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14485549 }} The genus name combines the Ancient Greek αμβλυοεις/ambluoeis meaning "dull" with ορνις/ornis meaning "bird".{{ cite web | last=Jobling | first=James A. | title=Amblyornis | work=The Key to Scientific Names | url=https://birdsoftheworld.org/bow/key-to-scientific-names/search?q=Amblyornis | publisher=Cornell Lab of Ornithology | access-date=22 February 2025 }}

=Species=

The genus contains five species:{{cite web| editor1-last=Gill | editor1-first=Frank | editor1-link=Frank Gill (ornithologist) | editor2-last=Donsker | editor2-first=David | editor3-last=Rasmussen | editor3-first=Pamela | editor3-link=Pamela C. Rasmussen | date=February 2025 | title=Lyrebirds, scrubbirds, bowerbirds, Australasian treecreepers, Australasian wrens | work=IOC World Bird List Version 15.1 | url=https://www.worldbirdnames.org/bow/lyrebirds/ | publisher=International Ornithologists' Union | access-date=30 May 2025 }}

Image	Name	Common name	Distribution
class="wikitable sortable"
	Amblyornis flavifrons	Golden-fronted bowerbird	Foja Mountains in the Papua province of Indonesia
	Amblyornis macgregoriae	MacGregor's bowerbird	New Guinea
	Amblyornis germanus	Huon bowerbird	Huon Peninsula, northeast New Guinea
	Amblyornis subalaris	Streaked bowerbird	southeastern New Guinea
	Amblyornis inornata	Vogelkop bowerbird	Bird's Head Peninsula (Vogelkop Peninsula) of western New Guinea

References

Category:Bird genera