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Bowerbirds: Build It (and they will come)

  • Satin Bowerbird (Ptilonorhynchus violaceus minor) male “painting” the inner walls of his bower with masticated plant matter. Note the substance on his bill. This bower is decorated with all natural objects. Rain forest of the Atherton Tablelands. Queensland, Australia
  • Satin Bowerbird (Ptilonorhynchus violaceus minor) male displays to a female who has entered his bower. He holds a cicada case in his bill. This bower is decorated with all natural objects. Rain forest of the Atherton Tablelands. Queensland, Australia
  • Bower of a Vogelkopf Bowerbird (Amblyornis inornatus) decorated with blue berries, dark orange fungi, and orange leaves. The male bowerbird stands in his bower entrance, holding an orange fruit he has just brought to decorate his bower with.
  • Great Bowerbird (Chlamydera nuchalis) male practicing displaying with one of his prize decoration (in this case a pink paper clip found on the college campus). This is the female’s eye view looking out of the bower to the male peeking around the corner with a decoration. Located on the campus of James Cook University. Townsville, Queensland, Australia. JCU Bower #2
  • Great Bowerbird (Chlamydera nuchalis) male at his bower with green glass, plastic toy elephant, toy soldier, and other decorations. Townsville, Queensland, Australia. Fantome St. Bower
  • Display court of the Tooth-billed Bowerbird (Scenopoeetes dentirostris) consisting simply of a cleared area with a collection of upside-down leaves arranged. Rain forest of the Atherton Tablelands, Queensland, Australia.
  • Bower of a Great Bowerbird (Chlamydera nuchalis) located far from civilization in the dry forest west of the village of Irvinebank. Decorations are mostly stones with a few snail shells, green fruits, and pieces of green glass. Queensland, Australia. Photographed at night using light painting with a flashlight/torch.
  • Male Huon Macgregor’s Gardener Bowerbird (Amblyornis macgregoriae) at bower.
  • Bower of a Vogelkopf Bowerbird (Amblyornis inornatus) decorated with Piper leaves, orange fungi, and blue berries.
  • Bower of a Vogelkopf Bowerbird (Amblyornis inornatus) decorated primarily with a huge spread of acorns, plus a small pile of orange fruits.
  • Bower of the Vogelkopf Bowerbird (Amblyornis inornatus) decorated with piles of acorns, black fungi, and pandanus flowers.
  • Bower of Macgregor’s Bowerbird (Amblyornis macgregoriae).
  • Bower of Vogelkopf Bowerbird (Amblyornis inornatus) decorated with various types of trash and some flowers.

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