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.

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 ...

A male satin bowerbird aims to impress a female with his display of bright blue things around his courting bower. (Photographer: Ben Timms)Mr Faulkner said it would be a rare thing today to find a ...

Male Birds in Australia Seek to Impress With Flowers and Dancing. February 13, 2008. Talk about trying to impress a girlfriend! Satin bowerbirds from Australia go overboard to win a mate.

Macho courtship by the satin bowerbird is tempered to avoid frightening the female. Models of sexual selection generally assume that behavioural courtship displays reflect intrinsic male qualities ...

Because male bowerbirds commonly steal from each other, researchers anchored these extra accoutrements with screws and glue. ... Satin bowerbird factsheet (Australian Museum Online): ...

After 14 years of being overlooked, our garden was selected by a satin bowerbird to build its blue-festooned bower. ... The male collected fallen dried grass-like leaves from our xanthorrhoea, ...

Pay no attention to the metal stake underneath this female bowerbird. She’s the fembot designed by University of Maryland scientists to test the female role in satin bowerbirds’ showy courtship.

Footage of a satin bowerbird’s (Ptilonorhynchus violaceus) struggle when a ring from a plastic bottle became caught around its head, captured by The Australian Reptile Park, has revealed the ongoing ...

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 ...

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.