Sentences with phrase «for bowerbirds»

For bowerbirds however, their bachelor pads — or bowers — are the selling point.

Not exact matches

Bigger is better for a female bowerbird in search of a mate, and males are prepared to manipulate perspective to convince them.

BIGGER is better for a female bowerbird in search of a mate, and males are prepared to manipulate perspective to exploit this.

A male bowerbird typically lives 30 years and begins collecting objects for his courtyard by age 5.

Creating this illusion is a priority for great bowerbirds.

Joah Madden of the University of Cambridge, U.K., and his colleagues examined bowers built by the spotted bowerbird, Chlamydera maculatain Taunton National Park in Queensland, Australia, and found local preferences for particular bower ornaments.

Male bowerbirds build bowers — twig tunnels furnished with decorations — that are designed to entice females and act as a stage for courtship and copulation.

The fireproofing skills of the great bowerbird The intricate twig structures that bowerbirds build for courtship are surprisingly resilient to bush fires.

For her Ph.D. at the University of Maryland, Gail Patricelli took a birdbot into the Australian rain forest to analyze the sexual selection of bowerbirds.

Thanks for the comment bowerbird.

Birdwatch for Victoria rifle birds, spotted cat birds, tooth billed bowerbirds and many other native birds.

From here, follow the Waterfall Way scenic drive an hour inland to reach the UNESCO - listed rainforest of Dorrigo National Park — it's brilliant for birdwatching, with satin bowerbirds among the most prized sightings.

The bowerbird, an avian «installation artist,» is known for its obsessive scavenging of detritus to decorate elaborately designed habitats, or bowers.

For this new work, Iglesias mimics the construction strategies of the bowerbird to create an immense, intricately adorned, sculptural environment.

The male bowerbird, for instance, creates a nest not for habitation, but purely for aesthetic display.

Male Bowerbirds, a modest - seeming species native to Oceania, have long been considered one of Nature's most memorable masters of courtship for the complex, ornamental shrines they build to impress their mates.