Borgia: He reuses the bower. Male satin bowerbirds, we know, may mate with 25 different females. One male in one year had 53 copulations. So the bowers are used quite a lot. Stud of studs ...

Get a glimpse of the crazy courtship of these barmy birds. Satin bowerbird. (Photo courtesy BBC) A male satin bowerbird (Ptilonorhynchus violaceus) puts on a display next to his bower. He collects ...

In Australia, in front of his stick-and-grass avenue, a male satin bowerbird, whose eyes are a striking blue, displays blue parrot feathers, white snail shells, and yellow and purple blossoms.

There are at least 20 strikingly different species of bowerbird, and although they share a bower-building prowess, no two species look quite the same. Male satin bowerbirds (Ptilonorhynchus ...