Keith Horton

Female Satin Bowerbirds are medium-sized, cryptically colored birds, predominantly olive-green on their backs with brownish wings and tails, and creamy underbodies marked with dark, scalloped, or crescent-shaped patterns. They are distinguished by their bright violet-blue eyes. Bowers are two-walled, twig-constructed 'avenues'.

A juvenile male Satin Bowerbird in front of his practice bower. Adult Satin Bowerbirds use such bowers for courtship.

Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia

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I see what you mean!

Yes, they're fairly common around here.

Close. Mt Pleasant.

Thank you!

Beautiful!

Female Satin Bowerbirds are medium-sized, cryptically colored birds, predominantly olive-green on their backs with brownish wings and tails, and creamy underbodies marked with dark, scalloped, or crescent-shaped patterns. They are distinguished by their bright violet-blue eyes. Bowers are two-walled, twig-constructed 'avenues'.

This juvenile male Satin Bowerbird is bringing another stick to add to his practice bower. Adult Satin Bowerbirds use such bowers for courtship.

Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia

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Let's hope she will be!

Thanks!

Thank you!

According to a quick check on google AI, 'the visual system of bowerbirds may represent a transitional link in the evolution from violet-sensitive to UV-sensitive, allowing them to see a wider spectrum of colors than humans'.

It would if you were a female bowerbird!

Yes, anything blue.

It's a pleasure!

Irresistible!

Fabulous shot!

Thanks Leo!

Most of his plumage is blue-black, but he is flinging his wings up, revealing underparts which are still yellowish - characteristic of the younger male. He holds a blue bottle top in his beak. Satin Bowerbirds love blue things.

This immature male Satin Bowerbird is half way between the the greenish plumage of younger males and the blue-black plumage of adult males. He is practising one of the moves he will use as an adult to impress females.

New South Wales, Australia

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Thanks Leo, they sure are!

Beautiful photo

Beautiful photo

One immature male Satin Bowerbird practices the display he will use to impress females when he grows up. Another watches from their ramshackle play-bower.

Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia

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Scribbly-gum trees have smooth white or silvery grey bark. The central tree here looks very old, and has evidently survived at least one fire. There is a green undergrowth of many small shrubs, and a slightly stormy sky.

Scribbly-gum woodland

Near Fitzroy Falls, New South Wales, Australia

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That's very sad to hear, but unfortunately not surprising.

One hears them more often than one sees them.

Thanks Rob

Great shot!

Adorable indeed!

Very nice. So it's based on a piece by Purcell?

A large cockatoo native to the south-east of Australia measuring 55–65 cm (22–26 in) in length. Its plumage is mostly brownish black and it has a prominent yellow cheek patch. As it has a black beak and pinkish-red eye-rings, it is a male. It is in a banksia bush with late afternoon yellow light behind. In one of its claws is an old banksia woody fruit, which it is processing for seeds.

A Yellow-tailed black cockatoo enjoying some banksia seeds.

Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia

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