The Extraordinary Complex Bowerbird
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Why are the Bowerbirds so Unique?
The Fawn-breasted Bowerbird is distributed in New Guinea and northern Australia, where it inhabits the tropical forests, mangroves, savanna woodlands and forest edges.
The Great Bowerbird,is a common and conspicuous resident of northern Australia
The Western Bowerbird is a Bowerbird common in arid Central Australia and the Pilbara region of Western Australia
The Spotted Bowerbird is widely distributed across inland Queensland and New South Wales.
The Satin Bowerbird,is common in rainforest and tall wet sclerophyll forest in eastern Australia from southern Queensland to Victoria. There is also an isolated population in the Wet Tropics of north Queensland.
An Australian endemic, the Regent Bowerbird is distributed to rainforests and margins of eastern Australia, from central Queensland to New South Wales.
The Golden Bowerbird is a species of bowerbird found in the rainforests above 700m of Atherton, Queensland in Australia.
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The Bowerbirds
The Bowerbirds: Ptilonorhynchidae (Bird Families of the World)
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The bowerbirds are confined to the great island of New Guinea and the island continent of Australia, and their immediately adjacent islands. They are medium-sized birds, omnivorous and largely solitary. They are unique in the avian world in that the males build elaborate 'bowers': structures of sticks, grasses or other plant stems on or close to the ground for display and courtship, often incorporating objects such as colourful fruits, flowers, feathers, bones, stones, shells, insect skeletons, and numerous other natural (and human-made) objects.
Regent Bowerbird, Male, Australia
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- Attenborough and Bowerbird bower
- A direct link to David Attenborough and the Bowerbird bower
Disc 2 begins with a 2000 segment of the Natural World series titled "Bowerbirds: The Art of Seduction,"
This dvd is a tribute to David Attenborough and a treat for us.
Attenborough in Paradise and Other Personal Voyages
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Disc 2 begins with a 2000 segment of the Natural World series titled "Bowerbirds: The Art of Seduction," and it's one of the most entertaining programs of Attenborough's career. Attenborough studies the entire family of Bowerbirds, whose remarkably meticulous sculptures, structures, and decorations represent the only example in nature (outside of humankind) of creatures that attract mates through the creation of beautiful works of art.
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What is a Bower? Why does the Bowerbird build a bower? How is it different than the nest?
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Satin Bowerbird
Satin Bowerbird with Mealworm Stretched Canvas Poster Print, 24x32
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A Satin Bowerbird
A Satin Bowerbird Spruces Up His Bower Canvas Print / Canvas Art - Artist Tim Laman
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Featuring: A male Golden-fronted Bowerbird, found only in the Foja Mountains
Rare video footage
- The Wattled smoky honeyeater photo
- See a National Geographic Photograph. Scientists discovered the bird on a recent expedition to the Foja Mountains of Indonesia, on the island of New Guinea.
- Berlepsch's six-wired bird of paradise
- This is the first photograph ever taken of what scientists are calling New Guinea's "lost" bird of paradise.
- A trip to The Foja Mountains
- Here you will see:
Wattled Smoky Honey Eater
Black Sickle Bill Bird of Paradise
Golden-fronted bowerbird
Berlepsch's Six-Wired Bird of Paradise
Australia Birds
The Slater Field Guide to Australian Birds: revised and updated
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Revised and updated edition of the classic Slater Field Guide to Australian Birds. Now a household name among birdwatchers it is the book to which both beginners turn to and experienced birdwatchers rely on.
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cffutah
Jan 30, 2012 @ 8:11 pm | delete
- enjoyed reading about this bird.
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annmackiemiller
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- amazing - Angel blessed
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susannaduffy
Apr 11, 2009 @ 8:15 am | delete
- What a delightful little lens. Would you like to add this to the wander Downunder Group? (/groups/downunder). I hope so
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henrykaye
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- Beautiful lens! 5*
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wahguide
Aug 18, 2008 @ 11:34 pm | delete
- Beautiful birds. I enjoyed the vidoes. The Fruit Dove below is pretty colorful as well.
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Includes the mating dance of the Golden Fronted Bower Bird
60 Minutes - Garden of Eden (December 16, 2007)
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A 60 Minutes camera is the first to catch the mating dances of two rare birds: the Black Sickle-bill Bird of Paradise and the Golden Fronted Bower Bird.
Twenty existing species of Bowerbirds
Bowerbirds (Australian Natural History)
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Includes color pictures of each Australian species, their bowers, displays and distributional maps
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- Critically Endangered is the Kakapo (seen to the left) in New Zealand.Featured here with pictures are:The KakapoWhite-winged GuanWaved AlbatrossSiberian CranePhilippine EagleEskimo Curlew
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