Satin Bowerbird

Like all bowerbirds, the Satin Bowerbird shows highly complex courtship behaviour. Mate choice in Satin Bowerbirds has been studied in detail by a group of researchers at the University of Maryland, College Park. Males build specialized stick structures, called bowers, which they decorate with blue, yellow, and shiny objects if these are available, including berries, flowers, and even ballpoint pens, drinking straws and other discarded plastic items. As the males mature they use more blue objects than other colours. Females visit these and choose which male they will allow to mate with them. In addition to building their bowers, males carry out intense behavioural displays called dances to woo their mates, but these can be treated as threat displays by the females. Nestbuilding and incubation are carried out by the females alone. Recent research has shown that female mate choice takes place in three stages:

The Satin Bowerbird is classified as Least Concern. Does not qualify for a more at risk category. Widespread and abundant taxa are included in this category.

satin bowerbirds partly to determine how female selection might work in this species (see introduction). Female satin bowerbirds examine several bowers in a small territory, using them to assess the qualities of the males maintaining them. Borgia found that building a bower well takes experience. Older males build neater, sturdier bowers and accumulate a greater treasure of blue objects, especially rare blue feathers. They also give more “refined” courtship calls. Getting the blue feathers is no easy task. More

A male Satin Bowerbird only develops his wonderful satiny sheen after seven years. Up until this time, the males possess the same plumage and colouring as the females. More

The Satin Bowerbird, Ptilonorhynchus violaceus is a bowerbird 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. Like all bowerbirds, the Satin Bowerbird shows highly complex courtship behaviour. Mate choice in Satin Bowerbirds has been studied in detail by a group of researchers at the University of Maryland, College Park. More

male Satin BowerbirdA male Satin BowerbirdPhotographer - Gary LewisSource - Gary Lewis Photography Pty. Ltd female Satin BowerbirdA female Satin BowerbirdPhotographer - Gary LewisSource - Gary Lewis Photography Pty. Ltd Ptilonorhynchus violaceus The dark glossy-blue male Satin Bowerbird attracts potential mates by building a bower of twigs and grass. He decorates the bower with blue and yellow objects - feathers, shells, glass, berries and uses them to display to females. More

Satin Bowerbird is Most Recognized There are 18 species of bowerbirds that live in a variety of habitats in Australia and the island of New Guinea to the north, including woodlands, rainforests, and cloud forests at high elevations. They vary in size and color, and the shape of features such as their bills, crests and tails. People often think of the male Satin bowerbird (Ptilonorhynchus violaceus) of eastern Australia when they picture a bowerbird. More

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Satin Bowerbird Size: 27-33cm Habitat: Found in North QLD and from South East QLD to Vic, this bird inhabits rainforest and its surrounding areas. Feeds on fruits, leaves and insects, sometimes visiting nearby orchids. Notes: Male: Glossy black/blue bird with blue eyes Female: Brown/green bird, Chest has brown scalloping, blue eyes. Breeds Spring-Summer. For more information on Satin Bowerbird see references. Images have been uploaded in low resolution for storage efficiency, ( they do not reflect the true image quality). More

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The Satin Bowerbird of Australia is a very interesting bird. They are so-named because of the intricate bower structures built by the males. These are not nests but rather display arenas to attract females. Every adult male satin bowerbird clears a circular area on the rainforest floor and builds a stick structure called a 'bower'. The bower is of the avenue type: it includes a layer of twigs on the ground 5-7.5 cm deep. More

The male satin bowerbird, common in parts of Australia, is a silky, blue-black bird, about 20 cm (about 7.8 in) long, with bright blue eyes; the male of this species builds a stick mat, down the middle of which he places two walls of vertical sticks that may reach 38 cm (16 in) high. He mixes a blue or green fruit juice with saliva and "paints" this on the bower with a wad of bark, one of the few known instances of birds using a tool. More

average-sized adult male Satin Bowerbird of the southern or nominate subspecies (P. v. violaceous) and a Regent Bowerbird (see Fig. 1a). The gonad condition of this individual bird was never mentioned and it is therefore possible that it may have been sterile. More

Satin Bowerbird - Not On IUCN Red List Check 2000 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species More

A pair of Satin Bowerbirds courting in the bower (photo courtesy of Sally Benson) There are a couple of species of bower bird on Tamborine Mountain: the Satin Bower Bird and the Regent Bower Bird. As the name implies, the Regent is the more spectacular of the two - or at least the male is, with is his golden orange-yellow crown, mantle and top wing feathers over a black body. More

Long term monitoring of satin bowerbird bowers shows that high male skew in mating success is maintained across multiple years causing variation in male lifetime reproductive success to be high. It has been suggested that costly male displays are necessary for honest advertisement of male quality, but the tendency for males to hold top reproductive positions for as long as six years suggests that display may not be extremely costly for them. More

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Male satin bowerbird Stud of studs: A single male satin bowerbird may mate with more than 25 different females. - NOVA: Do bowerbirds learn to build bowers by watching other bowerbirds or are the skills innate? Borgia: That's a good question. I suspect it is a combination of things. We've got some evidence from naïve bowerbirds raised in captivity that they can put sticks into the ground, so that part at least seems to be innate. More

Satin bowerbird 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. Borgia: Yes. A BBC crew just went out with them and in that sequence the males copulated with the female robots. NOVA: Or tried anyway. Borgia: Yeah. More

satin bowerbirdsatin bowerbird - of southeast Australia; male is glossy violet blue; female is light grey-greenPtilonorhynchus violaceus, satin birdbowerbird, catbird - any of various birds of the Australian region whose males build ornamented structures resembling bowers in order to attract femalesgenus Ptilonorhynchus, Ptilonorhynchus - type genus of the Ptilonorhynchidae How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for More

Satin Bowerbirds may form large flocks in the non breeding season and live mainly in forests, rainforests and the edges of drier forests on the coast and adjacent ranges of Eastern Australia. They’re found from Cooktown in Queensland to south of Melbourne in Victoria. More

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