WHEN IT COMES to attracting females, male bowerbirds have a number of tricks ... the masked bowerbird, and the regent bowerbird all have bright yellow eyes, other species have colour schemes of their ...

The choice of color is no accident ... Once a female arrives, the real show begins. The male bowerbird becomes a performer, strutting, dancing, and sometimes mimicking the calls of other birds ...

On average, it takes a male bowerbird around seven years to master ... However, what truly sets bowerbirds apart is their ...

The male great bowerbird constructs a beautiful tubular ... to get the female in the mood---he’s actually messing with her color vision. The male picks up a typically colorful object, which ...

Another theory, and one that researchers believe is more likely, is that satin bowerbirds choose blue because that's its 'allotted' colour in the bowerbird world. The researchers studied a male ...

A male bowerbird has arranged rocks from smallest to largest (right). The illusion makes a male standing in the rubble appear larger and more appealing from the female’s perspective. At the left is ...

The bowerbird, if a new study is to be believed. Males appear to cultivate plants around the structures they build to attract a mate. Male spotted bowerbirds (Ptilonorhynchus maculates ...

The male bowerbird may also pick up particular items to show to the female to impress her even further. The object may be pleasing in color, or the dimensions of the object may add to the ...

WHEN IT COMES to attracting females, male bowerbirds have a number of tricks ... the masked bowerbird, and the regent bowerbird all have bright yellow eyes, other species have colour schemes of their ...