Stud of studs: A single male satin bowerbird may mate with more than 25 different females. NOVA: Do bowerbirds learn to build bowers by watching other bowerbirds or are the skills innate?

Satin bowerbirds are known for constructing elaborate courtship bowers often dominated by blue plastics and wildlife experts say it can have fatal results.

Male satin bowerbirds roam the streets and countryside thieving treasures to adorn their bedrooms, Australian researchers find. But there is no honour among thieves. While they're out poaching ...

Satin bowerbirds from Australia go overboard to win a mate. First, the blue-black male birds build bowers, U-shaped twig "palaces" where the green female birds can stand and admire them.

The courtship of the male satin bowerbird consists of a dramatic, coordinated display of feather-puffing, extending the wings suddenly, and running accompanied by a loud buzzing vocalization. The ...

Patricelli Auditioning for fatherhood, the dark male satin bowerbird puts on a noisy, erratic show for the light, speckled female sitting between the walls of the bower he built.

In a previous study, his group found that female satin bowerbirds will return the next year to attractive mates, but "females which fail to encounter very attractive males typically reject their ...

After 14 years of being overlooked, our garden was selected by a satin bowerbird to build its blue-festooned bower.

Male satin bowerbirds build elaborate ‘avenue bowers’, comprised of two walls of twigs leading to a display court decorated with brightly coloured objects. Males perform displays for females on the ...

A satin bowerbird's struggle with a plastic bottle ring caught around its head has revealed the threat of plastic to native animals.

Fired with lust, male satin bowerbirds have tried to mate with Patricelli's robots. NOVA: I read that the female robots were so lifelike that the males even tried to copulate with them. Borgia: Yes.