The male's bower is a single avenue, usually hidden in a tangle of ferns and vines on the forest floor. He paints it yellow, using a mixture of saliva and the juice of crushed leaves. Although each bower is constructed and maintained by a dominant male, other males may visit and care for it. When courting, the male regent bowerbird fans his tail and spreads his wings. He sometimes beats his wings to display their brilliant colours while churring, chattering and wheezing.
Regent bowerbirds are fruit eaters and live mainly in the upper levels of forest trees.
They spend time on the ground only when bower-building, displaying and mating. Their range extends from the Eungella Range, inland from Mackay in Queensland, to the Illawarra escarpment near Wollongong. The spotted bowerbird Both male and female spotted bowerbirds have a mottled brown appearance, with a bar of lilac on the back of their necks. During breeding and through the rest of the year, the male spends time tending, watching and 'singing' over his bower. This intricate structure consists of twin parallel walls of finely interwoven dry stems, set in a foundation-mat of crossed sticks.