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The satin bowerbird (Ptilonorhynchus violaceus) is a bowerbird endemic to eastern Australia. A rare natural intergeneric hybrid between the satin bowerbird and the regent bowerbird is known as Rawnsley's bowerbird.
Identification. Satin Bowerbirds are medium-sized birds. The adult male has striking glossy blue-black plumage, a pale bluish white bill and a violet-blue iris. Younger males and females are similar in colour to each other, and are collectively referred to as 'green' birds.
The female places a loose nest of sticks in a tree or bush, up to 30 m – 35 m above the ground. Satin Bowerbirds are renowned for decorating their bowers with all manner of blue objects collected from the vicinity of the bower.
Large plump bowerbird with short bill. Adult males are entirely dark glossy blue-purple color with a pale bill and bright violet eye. Adult females and immatures are primarily green and brown, with blue/pink eyes and scalloped underparts.
13 lis 2022 · Mating ritual. The female bower bird has a mottled green and brown plumage, providing ideal camouflage in Australia’s eastern states bushland.
10 kwi 1997 · For the male Satin, which builds a U-shaped bower from parallel walls of twigs, the favored color is blue. To decorate its “avenue,” as scientists call it, he collects blue feathers, berries ...
25 lut 2011 · In satin bowerbirds Ptilonorhynchus violaceus, adult males have an iridescent short-wavelength (UV-blue) saturated plumage with peak reflectance in the UV (Doucet and Montgomerie 2003a), and male courtship display involves rapid extensions of both wings that produce bright flashes likely visible to females standing in the bower. The sexually ...
