The most notable characteristic of bowerbirds is their extraordinarily complex courtship and mating behaviour, where males build a bower to attract mates....In and around the bower the male places a variety of brightly colored objects he has collected. These objects — usually different among each species — may include hundreds of shells, leaves, flowers, feathers, stones, berries, and even discarded plastic items, coins, nails, rifle shells, or pieces of glass. The males spend hours arranging this collection....
I remember seeing a BBC documentary about those birds, fascinating. They also have a thing for the color blue.
ReplyDeleteabsolutely! I love that he collects beautiful things to attract his mate...what a gentleman!
ReplyDeletelove it! especially since i saw the bowerbirds play a magical show last night in washington d.c.
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