Largest bowerbird, powerfully built with conspicuously long
legs. Mainly in open sclerophyll woodlands and forests, especially riverine
associations with some dense understory or tickets. Also in fringes of adjacent
rainforest and vine thickets. Common around human habitation. Avenue bower is
large and thick-walled, made of sticks and decorated with many items including
snail shells, bones, some green fruits or leaves, some red items and often
human artefacts.
