These birds sometimes use snakeskin to polish perches before arranging berries and decorating for mating rituals.

Read a National Geographic magazine article about animal mating behaviors and get information, facts, and more about sexual ...

Learn about the bird whose romantic rituals embarrass humans. Nature’s greatest romantic is here to impress. To impress, the male does dances with head bobs and wing flutter just outside his bower.

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 ...

SINCE the year 1840, when Gould communicated to the Zoological Society an account of their extraordinary “runs,” as they are locally called, the Bower-Birds of Australia and Papua have always ...

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 recent note on this subject by Marshall 1 is of considerable interest in directing attention to the life-history of a remarkable group of birds. Of particular significance is the apparent ...