Roosting behaviour of bowerbirds and birds of Paradise

My thanks to those who responded with information about roosting and predation on bowerbirds and birds of paradise, I got several useful sightings for roosts of Satin Bowerbirds, but nothing for birds of paradise and no instances of direct predation, which just goes to show how both subjects are remarkably little known.
Any further sightings are welcome, and also another obscure query- what is the maximum altitude for Paradise Riflebird? How high do they get in the Green Mts for instance, I presume they get towards Bithongabel but I don’t have any precise figure and it is not in any of the Frith titles or HANZAB.
I have it like this at present in the draft account, but I suspect the1100 m upper limit may be too low:
This species is unique in being the sole non-tropical representative of the family, endemic to the eastern coast of Australia from the Calliope Range south of Rockhampton, Queensland to just north of Newcastle, NSW in the Great Dividing Range and some lowlands to the east. The southern limit is the northern Hunter Valley near Barrington Tops.

Occurs occasionally down to sea level in winter, when some Australian species of the higher altitudes have local dispersals to lower lying areas, and also in surviving patches of lowland rainforest. Generally this species is most numerous above 500 m, extending up to about 1100 m.

Thanks once again
Phil Gregory

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