As seen in the video, we could learn a thing or two about interior design from bowerbirds. Let’s take a closer look, though, at why these birds create these bowers and the various bower styles ...

Other birds with strange-looking or outsized beaks ... The tail and wings are tipped with black. Like other bowerbirds, it builds a structure, or bower made out of sticks and decorates it with ...

Another similarity with human artists: the bird springs from behind his art and attempts to copulate with an admirer. I believe the bowerbird "mating structures" are a very natural and lovely form ...

Most birds don’t bring a box of chocolates or a bouquet of roses when they take up courtship of a prospective mate, but birds have several equivalent behaviors that they employ to attract the ...

People also study bowerbirds because, well, because they're surprisingly similar to people. Indeed, evolutionary biologist Jared Diamond has called them "the most intriguingly human of birds." ...

In this case, despite the male's best efforts, the female bowerbird seemed unimpressed, disappearing into the trees as soon as the show was over. Dustin is interested in photographing the courtship ...

Bowerbirds are renowned for the elaborate structures the males build and decorate with colourful objects to attract a mate. In the forests of New Guinea and Australia are some very unusual birds.

Charles Darwin scratched his head over the purpose of bowers, the carefully tended sex dens of the bowerbird. But few scientists had conducted studies of these ornate constructions and their ...

4) Male great bowerbird – Birds can build optical illusions Many animals display to impress potential mates but few are known to build a structure specifically designed to enhance their performance.

Male satin bowerbirds build bowers of twigs to attract females. Returning over a few days for a couple of hours each time, Keith eventually saw a female visiting. He combined two images to get both ...

Birds utilize various strategies to attract and keep mates mating rituals bird courtship birdsong bowerbird cranes (bird) ...