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The Australian Satin Bowerbird. The male is Deep Blue/Black colour with striking blue/purple eyes (depending on the light) and the female is a rather drab olive colur also with the striking blue eyes. To attract his mate, the male Satin Bowerbird builds a "bower" on the forest floor, which is basically two sets of tufts of grass curved and joined at the top kept in place partly by saliva from the male and also by carefully matting the grass tops together. After building the bower, the male adorns it with objects of blue that it finds, mainly man made stuff like discarded bottle tops, plastic drinking straws etc.

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The male can be seen adding some saliva to help keep the bower together.



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Nov 14, 2014 at 11:07 PM
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p.1 #2 · p.1 #2 · Australian Satin Bowerbird


Wow, these are really gorgeous shots! Fantastic work. I'd love to see this bird someday.


Nov 15, 2014 at 01:45 AM
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ashley138 wrote:
Wow, these are really gorgeous shots! Fantastic work. I'd love to see this bird someday.


Thank you very much for your wonderful comments, Ashley!



Nov 15, 2014 at 02:30 AM
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p.1 #4 · p.1 #4 · Australian Satin Bowerbird


Cool bird and information Lance. The eye is striking. Thanks for this informative post.


Nov 15, 2014 at 10:01 AM
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p.1 #5 · p.1 #5 · Australian Satin Bowerbird


These are nice birds with some interesting behavior, Lance.

- Tam



Nov 15, 2014 at 10:50 AM
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p.1 #6 · p.1 #6 · Australian Satin Bowerbird


Great stuff Lance, I saw these guys on a nature programme a few weeks ago. It was cool to see them building their bower.
David



Nov 15, 2014 at 02:11 PM
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p.1 #7 · p.1 #7 · Australian Satin Bowerbird


Thats a cool story Lance! What object did they use for the ground that's blue in your Lovely captures? Looks like ribbon? That's amazing they know and can see the color blue!
BeeBalm



Nov 15, 2014 at 04:36 PM
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p.1 #8 · p.1 #8 · Australian Satin Bowerbird


Love seeing birds I haven't before...and so well done too
Eric



Nov 15, 2014 at 04:37 PM
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KCollett wrote:
Cool bird and information Lance. The eye is striking. Thanks for this informative post.


And thank you for looking and for your valuable comments, Ken!

Me being from Australia, and most on this forum are not, I thought it good to give some details as to what this native Australian bird is all about.



Nov 15, 2014 at 07:54 PM
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p.1 #10 · p.1 #10 · Australian Satin Bowerbird


canon.eos30d wrote:
These are nice birds with some interesting behavior, Lance.

- Tam


Thank you very much for your lovely comments, Tam!



Nov 15, 2014 at 07:55 PM
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David Leask wrote:
Great stuff Lance, I saw these guys on a nature programme a few weeks ago. It was cool to see them building their bower.
David


Thank you for your wonderful comments, David!

We do have some interestring birds here in Australia.



Nov 15, 2014 at 07:56 PM
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BeeBalm wrote:
Thats a cool story Lance! What object did they use for the ground that's blue in your Lovely captures? Looks like ribbon? That's amazing they know and can see the color blue!
BeeBalm


Thank you very much for your wonderful comments, BeeBalm!

As for what the bird has collected for it's bower, I am not really sure, but one piece looks like a blue balloon, those long thin versions they use for making balloon animals. Another does look like ribbon, but another piece looks like it has a central line of sewing along it's length, so I don't know what that is all about.



Nov 15, 2014 at 08:00 PM
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eyelaser wrote:
Love seeing birds I haven't before...and so well done too
Eric


Thank you very much for your kind comments, Eric!



Nov 15, 2014 at 08:01 PM
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p.1 #14 · p.1 #14 · Australian Satin Bowerbird


Pretty bird, the 5th is my pick Lance

Morris



Nov 15, 2014 at 10:45 PM
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morris wrote:
Pretty bird, the 5th is my pick Lance

Morris


Thank you very much for your lovely comment, Morris!



Nov 16, 2014 at 03:27 AM
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p.1 #16 · p.1 #16 · Australian Satin Bowerbird


awesome bird Lance.. nicely done


Nov 16, 2014 at 04:06 AM
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Well documented. Saying that you have some nice birds in AU is a bit of an understatement. My favorite is number seven. Thanks for posting.


Nov 16, 2014 at 08:46 AM
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p.1 #18 · p.1 #18 · Australian Satin Bowerbird


kmunroe wrote:
awesome bird Lance.. nicely done


Thank you very much for your kind comments, Kenny!



Nov 16, 2014 at 10:12 AM
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sibirdie wrote:
Well documented. Saying that you have some nice birds in AU is a bit of an understatement. My favorite is number seven. Thanks for posting.


Thank you very much for your wonderful comments, sibirdie!



Nov 16, 2014 at 10:13 AM
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Cool birds nicely captured Lance ~ Ron


Nov 16, 2014 at 08:26 PM
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