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Satin bowerbird in Lamington National Park, Queensland, Australia. Mature males have violet-blue eyes and are uniformly coloured black, however, light diffraction by the surface texture of the feathers results in an almost metallic sheen giving a deep shiny blue appearance.
The two most studied species, the green catbird and satin bowerbird, have life expectancies of around eight to ten years [10] and one satin bowerbird has been known to live for twenty-six years. [11] For comparison, the common raven , the heaviest passerine species with significant banding records, has not been known to live longer than 21 years.
Bowerbirds are native to Australia and New Guinea. There are at least 20 strikingly different species of bowerbird, and although they share a bower-building prowess, no two species look quite the ...
The specimen was described as being in adult male plumage, mainly the glossy blue-black colouring of the adult male satin bowerbird, but with a conspicuous and extensive yellow wing patch, yellow tipping to some tail feathers, with a paler iris colour than the satin bowerbird, and intermediate in size between the two putative parent species.
Tooth-billed bowerbird, Scenopoeetes dentirostris - Aus; Golden bowerbird, Prionodura newtoniana - Aus; Regent bowerbird, Sericulus chrysocephalus - Aus; Satin bowerbird, Ptilonorhynchus violaceus - Aus; Spotted bowerbird, Chlamydera maculata - Aus; Western bowerbird, Chlamydera guttata - Aus; Great bowerbird, Chlamydera nuchalis - Aus
The bowerbirds are small to medium-sized passerine birds. The males notably build a bower to attract a mate. Depending on the species, the bower ranges from a circle of cleared earth with a small pile of twigs in the centre to a complex and highly decorated structure of sticks and leaves.
Regent bowerbird. The bowerbirds are small to medium-sized passerine birds. The males notably build a bower to attract a mate. Depending on the species, the bower ranges from a circle of cleared earth with a small pile of twigs in the center to a complex and highly decorated structure of sticks and leaves. Spotted catbird, Ailuroedus melanotis (E)
Bowerbirds (Ptilonorhynchidae), twenty species, ten found in Australia, eight in New Guinea, and two in both. Fairy-wrens, emu-wrens, and grasswrens , twenty-nine species, twenty-three endemic to Australia and six to New Guinea; Australasian babblers (Pomatostomidae), four of the five species are endemic to Australia