Sentences with phrase «bower birds»

This is, in fact, is the instinctive reasoning behind most status displays — whether with bower birds or people.

Take a walk through the lavender garden and enjoy the king parrots, rosellas and black satin bower birds that visit to feed in the garden each day.

Art, dance and music are not confined to human culture, they say: bower birds decorate their nests with an «aesthetic that resonates with ours»; gibbons «fling themselves balletically through the high forests», and «chimps delight in resonant drumming».

Well established, it now has abundant wildlife — echidnas, frogs and many birds such as blue wrens, honey eaters, parrots and bower birds.

However, there are examples of otherwise plain males winning a mate by producing beautiful objects (e.g. bower birds).

Thanks for the link to The Bower Bird Nest, love finding new blogs.

Not exact matches

These birds» elaborate bowers may make cunning use of geometry.

The bower, or mating site, of these extraordinary birds of Australia and New Guinea is the center of intense competition among males.

A soothing bower of woolen clothing and bird songs by the team of Guerra de la Paz greets one on the way in.

2017 Lilac Aura, Chandra Cerrito Contemporary, Oakland, CA 2016 Mel Prest & Martha Clippinger, c2c project space, San Francisco, CA (two person show) In Praise of Planetary Time, B Sakata Garo, Sacramento, CA 2015 COLOR CHANT, Chanda Cerrito Contemporary, Oakland, CA 2014 MoonBrightChime, Galleri Urbane, Dallas, TX 2013 ZeppelinMetroMashup, B Sakata Garo, Sacramento, CA 2011 Four Tokyo Metro Drawings, Candystore Collective, San Francisco, CA 2009 Station to Station, B Sakata Garo, Sacramento, CA (two person show, with Seth Koen) Sky Black Ray, Gregory Lind Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2006 Pacific Transmissions, Branch Gallery, Durham, NC Alignments, Gregory Lind Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2004 Chromatics, MH deYoung Artist Studio, San Francisco, CA 2003 Open Line, Gregory Lind Gallery, San Francisco, CA Bowerhaus, The Bower, San Antonio, TX Color and Line, Contra Costa College Gallery, San Pablo, CA Fresh Paint, Olive Hyde Gallery, Fremont, CA 1998 This is Why I Sing Birds, Ensemble Room, Mills College, Oakland, CA 1995 New Work, Vox Populi, Philadelphia, PA Challenge 1, Samuel B. Fleisher Art Memorial, Philadelphia, PA