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Cheryl Ridge | profile | all galleries >> AUSTRALIAN WILDLIFE >> Australian birds - 300+ species >> Bowerbirds >> Satin Bowerbirds tree view | thumbnails | slideshow

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Satin Bowerbirds

Australian bird photos
Satin Bowerbird - Satin Bowerbirds ( Ptilonorhynchus violaceus )
Oreilly's rainforest retreat - Gold Coast Hinterland - Lamington National Park - Queensland Australia
Also seen in East Gippsland Victoria

Male is glossy blue-black, female olive green and mottled/scalloped plumage.
The male as part of a courtship ritual, to attract the female, builds a bower from
sticks and decorates it with bright blue objects he has collected.
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