One other thing I should have said. This wasn't a young male (it was
fully purple, without a hint of immature plumage).
John Leonard
2008/10/18 John Leonard <>:
> On Red Hill in suburban south Canberra I noted a Satin Bowerbird male
> displaying to females this afternoon in the absence of a bower.
>
> It was displaying to one female near the ground in moderately thick
> low shrubs, bouncing on and off a low branch making the usual whirring
> calls. It then flew up to ten feet or so in the lower boughs of a dead
> eucalypt and bounced from bough to bough, not gaining any height,
> making the same calls, while at least four females inspected the
> performance from much higher up (the top branches of the tree).
> Finally the male flew another 10 meters to bare area of ground and
> began courting one female who was on the ground with him.
>
> Although I was reluctant to do too much poking around I am confident
> that nowhere in this area was there a bower. All this must have taken
> place at least 50 meters from a bower.
>
> (For those who know Red Hill this was nowhere near the bower that used
> to exist near the golf-course. Instead it was directly up the hill
> from the Kent Street Telstra offices, just below the second
> water-tank.)
>
> Has anyone heard of Satin Bowerbird displays away from the bower? The
> sight of the male and females in the dead tree reminded me of footage
> I had seen of Bird of Paradise display trees in New Guinea (I know
> Bowerbirds aren't closely related to BoPs).
>
>
>
>
> --
> John Leonard
> Canberra
> Australia
> www.jleonard.net
>
--
John Leonard
Canberra
Australia
www.jleonard.net
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