I assumed that was what they were up to, having read it somewhere
(probably here by you, Geoffrey). I had a difficult time explaining
this practicing with other males complication to a small assembled
group of 5 and 6-year olds, so stuck with the male and female
line. The birds are remarkably tolerant to even remain in a
playground full of kids; after telling the little group to keep their
distance bec "the birds might be frightened and fly away and not come
back", one bouncing hyper(?)-active boy replied "I always go up
really close and they come back". Which they do. It's difficult to
imagine this species being in danger from encroaching humanity, at
least until we are eventually not allowed to water gardens at all and
the rain dries up.
At 09:22 AM 20/06/2008, Geoffrey Dabb wrote:
I think most of the Canberra Winter activity falls under the heading of
'practice bowers' or, in the phrase of the old bushmen, 'playing silly
b***ers'. I have seen a green male display to a black male, and a black
male display to another black male
-----Original Message-----
From: Julian Robinson
Sent: Thursday, 19 June 2008 10:01 PM
To:
Subject: RE: [canberrabirds] Satin Bowerbird (F) in Deakin
A green male S Bowerbird has for some time established a bower in
Yarralumla Montessori. He returned some weeks ago and yesterday he
was busy displaying and persistently proffering a beautiful plastic
bottle top to another green bird, although from what I could see the
would-be recipient seemed to be another male since he had a pale bill.
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