Bowerbirds and sexual selection

Video showing the spatial pattern of intense display elements in satin bowerbird courtship using a robotic female to control female behavior. Males...

In this video a male satin bowerbird solves a problem where a clear barrier prevents the male from removing red objects. Male satin bowerbirds do ...

Bowerbirds compete by destroying bowers and stealing decorations of other males. Most destruction and stealing occurs at bower of neighboring males...

Females commonly visit the bowers of on average three males before copulatig in a single season. About 80% of females mate with one male. Some fema...

Male satin bowerbirds court females at their bower site using energetic dancing and vocal displays. Females make repeated visits to male's bowers a...

Males build bowers on ground display courts. Bowers are different from nests that are built by females in trees.Bowers of each bowerbird species ar...