It is said that one man’s trash is another man’s treasure, but bowerbirds have turned refuse into an aphrodisiac, stealing ...
City bowerbirds had a kaleidoscope of refuse to choose from, and adorned their bowers accordingly. “Glass, plastic, and wire ...
Bowerbirds in an Australian city use a range of human items—from glass and plastic to banknotes and even a pair of ...
According to a new paper published in the journal Royal Society Open Science by University of Exeter scientists, urbanization ...
Researchers from the University of Exeter say bowerbirds in Australian cities are using human items to impress their mates.
The incident points to the wider impact of plastics on native Australian animals. Footage of a satin bowerbird’s (Ptilonorhynchus violaceus) struggle when a ring from a plastic bottle became caught ...
A rambunctious bowerbird youth has been constructing his bower a metre from where Guardian Australia data and interactive editor Nick Evershed's kids jump on the trampoline. The kids have been rapt, ...
The regent bowerbird male is one of the more striking of the family of bower builders, and he’s intelligent too THE REGENT BOWERBIRD (Sericulus chrysocephalus) is not only incredibly beautiful and ...