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bowerbirds at bower

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Subject: bowerbirds at bower
From: "gary wright" <>
Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2008 21:55:07 +0930
On the weekend I spent time at Olive Pink botanic gardens in Alice Springs 
photographing western bowerbirds at bower.  I noticed that three birds seemed 
to be 'using' the bower together, without any obvious aggression between them.  
One bird did appear slightly more dominant(it had more pink on back of head adn 
I don't know if htis is a sign of maturity or not) but it was not overtly 
aggressive to others.  At one point all three birds sat on a branch above the 
bower and one bird adopted a begging pose-crouched down, mouth open and wings 
fluttering, which seemed to bring no response from the other birds.  Birds 
appeared to alternate being on the ground and peckign at the display objects 
and going in and out of the bower.  This is a long established bower.  There 
was no sign of a display for a female, like I would expect of pickign up a 
display object and doing a dance and there was certainly no mating.

Would this be three immature males?  Or what do people think is happening here?

Gary
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