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	Bowerbird - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The most notable characteristic of bowerbirds is the extraordinarily complex behaviour of males, which is to build a bower to attract mates.
		In a striking example of what is known as the "transfer effect," bowerbird species that build the most elaborate bowers are dull in color and show little variation between male and female, whereas bowerbird species with minor bowers have males with bright plumage.
		Though bowerbirds have traditionally been regarded as closely related to the birds of paradise, recent DNA-DNA hybridisation studies suggest that while both families are part of the great corvid radiation that took place in or near Australia-New Guinea, the bowerbirds are more distant from the birds of paradise than was once thought.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bowerbird (500 words)

	the Bowerbird - Australia - Travel Photos by Galen R Frysinger, Sheboygan, Wisconsin
		Bowerbird, common name for birds of the bowerbird family of New Guinea and Australia, considered by most ornithologists to be closely related to the birds of paradise of the same geographic region.
		The Vogelkop bowerbird (also known as the gardener bowerbird), a 25-cm (10-in) bird, builds a tepee like structure as much as 1.6 m (63 in) across, with a low entranceway in front of which is a "garden" of bright objects and flowers that are regularly replaced as soon as they fade.
		The male satin bowerbird, common in parts of Australia, is a silky, blue-fl bird, about 20 cm (about 7.8 in) long, with bright blue eyes; the male of this species builds a stick mat, down the middle of which he places two walls of vertical sticks that may reach 38 cm (16 in) high.
	www.galenfrysinger.com /nest_of_the_bowerbird.htm (329 words)

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		The bowers may be high pyramids, such as those built by the five species of maypole builder bowerbirds, or lower, more intricate, and painted with blue and green paints made of saliva and pigments, such as those built by the satin bowerbird and regent bowerbird (Sericulus chrysocephalus).
		Twelve bowerbirds are restricted to New Guinea, but Australia hosts a fine variety of "avenue-builders." These "avenues" are rows of sticks imbedded in the earth between a narrow passageway.
		The Vogelkop bowerbird (also known as the gardener bowerbird), a 25-cm (10-in) bird, builds a tepee like structure as much as 1.6 m across, with a low entranceway in front of which is a "garden" of bright objects and flowers that are regularly replaced as soon as they fade.
	www.bowerbird-house.com (448 words)

	© Dr. Ellen K. Rudolph - Satin Bowerbird - Ptilonorhynchus violaceus
		Most male Bowerbirds do not score, but the winners get multiple partners and the chance to pass their genes to the next generation.
		Bowerbirds are omnivorous, meaning that they will eat both plant and animal matter.
		Bowerbirds are thought to represent one of these ancient lineages of songbirds that arose in Australia some 50 million years ago.
	www.drellenrudolph.com /featureanimals/satinbowerbird.html (580 words)

	AllRefer.com - bowerbird (Vertebrate Zoology) - Encyclopedia
		bowerbird, common name for any of several species of birds of the family Ptilonorhynchidae, native to Australia and New Guinea, which build, for courtship display, a bower of sticks or grasses.
		Bowerbirds do not have very pleasant calls, but they are good mimics; sometimes other species' songs are included in their repertoires.
		Bowerbirds are classified in the phylum Chordata, subphylum Vertebrata, class Aves, order Passeriformes, family Ptilonorhynchidae.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/B/bowerbir.html (366 words)

	Factsheets: Satin Bowerbird
		Satin Bowerbirds prefer the wetter forests and woodlands, and nearby open areas, although those around the Atherton Tableland are largely rainforest inhabitants.
		The male Satin Bowerbird is perhaps the best known and well documented of all the bowerbirds in Australia.
		On the arrival of a female, the male Satin Bowerbird leaps into a ritualised display of exaggerated movements, such as strutting and bowing, with wings outstretched and quivering, and accompanied by a variety of mechanical-sounding calls, such as buzzing and rattling interspersed with mimicry.
	www.amonline.net.au /factsheets/satin_bowerbird.htm (555 words)

	Satin Bowerbird - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Satin Bowerbird Ptilonorhynchus violaceus, is a typical bowerbird, found in eastern Australia from the subtropics in southern Queensland to the cold mountainous regions of NSW and Victoria.
		Mate choice in Satin Bowerbirds has been studied in detail by a group of researchers at the University of Maryland, College Park.
		It has been hypothesized that as males mature their colour discrimination develops and they are able to select more blue objects for the bower.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Satin_Bowerbird (401 words)

	NOVA Online \| Flying Casanovas \| Are Bowers Art?
		Although the bowerbirds may be acting out of instinct, their unique, aesthetically pleasing constructions are indeed a form of art.
		I applaud you for bringing us the intricate beauties of the bowerbird's expression, which is not only about his desire to propagate, but also about his complex knowledge of the environment in which he lives.
		I am firmly convinced that the various structures of the male bowerbird are ingenious, effective, and aesthetically pleasing to both bowerbird and human.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/nova/bowerbirds/art.html (2615 words)

	Bowerbirds and sexual selection -- Gerald Borgia
		Most bowerbirds have a lek-like mating system and males have no role in parental care but they build intricate and often finely crafted stick structures associated with their display sites called bowers.
		Gilliard suggested that in bowerbirds bright male plumage traits were transferred from the bird to the bower.
		Thus, in bowerbirds, experience and learning ability may insure quality signals rather than just difference in the costs of male traits that males can support and honest advertising need not be highly cost dependent.
	www.life.umd.edu /biology/borgialab (3193 words)

	Forests of New Guinea - Fire-maned Bowerbird - World Wildlife Fund
		Found only in the Adelbert Mountains of northeastern New Guinea, the strikingly colored male fire-maned bowerbird is fl with a blazing orange crown and mane, has a yellow patch on its wing, and reaches about 10 inches in length.
		The fire-maned bowerbird is rarely seen, but can occasionally be found feeding on fruits and insects in upper- and mid-level trees.
		The fire-maned bowerbird is listed as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, based on its small range and the suspicion that it is in a continuous decline.
	www.worldwildlife.org /expeditions/newguinea/spec_fmb.cfm (183 words)

	WORLDTWITCH - The UCSB Queensland Bowerbird Affair
		Their aim is to discover why male bowerbirds select particular objects when building their bowers and what mental processes enable them to make the correct decision about selecting these objects.
		Dr Day has demonstrated that great bowerbirds are able to make very fine distinctions between a preferred green colour which they place on the bower and a very similar colour which they toss far from the bower.
		Satin Bowerbirds were first bred in the UK in 1902, the Regent in the UK in 1905 and they and at least five other species have been bred a number of times since.
	www.worldtwitch.com /bowerbird.htm (5489 words)

	! Golden Bowerbird ! Tropical Rainforest, North Queensland, Australia
		Some Golden Bowerbirds have lived until they are 25 years old – an impressive age for their small size.
		It is the world’s smallest bowerbird, but it is able to build the largest of all bowers.
		The male Golden Bowerbird builds a maypole type of bower of one or two towers of sticks up to 3m tall with a display perch.
	rainforest-australia.com /goldbower.html (601 words)

	Bowerbird page
		The Volgelkop Bowerbird is a member of the "gardener bowerbird" group, which includes the "maypole" building Amblyornis and the "mat" building Archboldia, both restricted to the high mountains of New Guinea.
		The Satin Bowerbird prefers humid climes and just loves the color blue (even a blue toothbrush!), while the Great Bowerbird lives in the dry rain-shadow west of the Atherton tablelands and prefers white and orange.
		It was once thought that bowerbirds were closely related to the birds-of-paradise since both families feature so many spectacular varieties of polygamous males which had evolved in rich food-filled forests (without significant mammalian predators) in Mew Guinea and tropical Australia.
	www.montereybay.com /creagrus/bowerbirds.html (918 words)

	! Tooth-billed Bowerbird ! Tropical Rainforest, North Queensland, Australia
		The Tooth-billed Bowerbird is one of 12 bird species endemic to the Wet Tropics region.
		This species is unlike other bowerbirds as the male bird does not build a bower, instead he clears a small area of land.
		This is referred to as his stage or court, and because of this the bird is also known as the Stage-maker.
	rainforest-australia.com /toothbilled.html (564 words)

	Bowerbird Glass Ornament
		The male Regent Bowerbird is resplendent in gold and fl.
		The Regent Bowerbird is found in and near rainforest in eastern Australia from North Queensland to Broken Bay and Cattai in New South Wales.
		This beautiful glass ornament is painted on the inside in the ancient traditions of an art form prized by collectors internationally.
	www.everythingchristmas.com.au /prod306.htm (159 words)

	NOVA Online \| Flying Casanovas
		Bowers in many cases are so meticulously designed, masterfully built, and color coordinated that at least one leading naturalist of the 19th century thought they were built by a race of pygmies.
		In the animal kingdom, male bowerbirds are far from alone in going out of their way to attract females.
		Five different species of male bowerbirds have become separated from their nests.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/nova/bowerbirds (246 words)

	Golden Bowerbird
		The male Golden Bowerbird builds a maypole type of bower of one or two towers
		She raises the one or two young in a small cup nest in a tree crevice.
		Some Golden Bowerbirds have lived until they are 25 years old – an impressive
	www.birdwatching-australia.com /goldb.html (544 words)

	! Birdwatching ! Tooth-billed Bowerbird North Queensland, Australia
		· The Tooth-billed Bowerbird is one of 12 bird species endemic to the Wet Tropics region.
		It is unlike other bowerbirds as the male bird does not build a bower, but instead,
		This is referred to as his stage or his court.
	birdwatching-australia.com /tooth.html (474 words)

	Linux PR: Bowerbird Computing releases version 1.0 of embedded XML database
		Bowerbird Computing releases version 1.0 of embedded XML database
		Bowerbird Computing is proud to announce the release of its first version of XDBM, a free embedded database designed specifically to handle XML data.
		XDBM provides the perfect fit for most software - currently there are massive database servers that can handle XML and simple libraries that can't search through XML.
	linuxpr.com /releases/955.html (247 words)

	Bowerbird - Jumbo! Multimedia
		Frame this Satin Bowerbird with Mealworm Photographic Print in our online posters shop or c...
		Bowerbird version 2.0 includes advanced database functions, advanced search options, basic image editing (with batch processing capabilities), and compatibility with a wide range of file formats.
		Bowerbird can also be used to create slide shows.
	www.jumbo.com /file/1715.htm (164 words)

	TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home
		Ick, I didn't even notice at first the absence of indentation on paragraphs, which -- combined with dropping the blank lines between paragraphs -- is a tremendous typographic faux-pas.
		A lot of reader-machine companies think a simple repurposing of the e-texts from Project Gutenberg is "good enough" to make a claim of "x number of e-books", but i'm wondering if poor e-typography is a turn-off to the hard-core readers that are the prime audience for these machines...
		I guess 100,000 pieces of paper in my pocket would be a cool thing...
	www.teleread.org /blog/wp-stats.php?author=bowerbird (5109 words)

	satin bowerbird - OneLook Dictionary Search
		We found 7 dictionaries with English definitions that include the word satin bowerbird:
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		satin bowerbird : WordNet 1.7 Vocabulary Helper [home, info]
	www.onelook.com /?w=satin+bowerbird&ls=a (121 words)

	Ben Cruachan Blog » The Satin Bowerbird.
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		I mentioned the male Satin Bowerbird a couple of posts ago, and thought I’d post this in response to Cindy’s comment.
		The male bird builds a structure of seduction out of grass stems and suchlike, and decorates the area with baubles which are usually blue, or green if blue things are hard to come by.
	bencruachan.org /blog/?p=29 (256 words)

	Mangoverde World Bird Guide Species Page: Regent Bowerbird (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Mangoverde World Bird Guide Species Page: Regent Bowerbird
		World Bird Guide :: Bowerbirds :: Regent Bowerbird
		Alternate common name(s): Australian Regent Bowerbird, Golden Bowerbird, Australian Regentbird
	www.mangoverde.com /birdsound/spec/spec188-14.html (58 words)

	Mangoverde World Bird Guide Species Page: Great Bowerbird (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Mangoverde World Bird Guide Species Page: Great Bowerbird
		World Bird Guide :: Bowerbirds :: Great Bowerbird
		Alternate common name(s): Great Gray Bowerbird, Great Grey Bowerbird
	www.mangoverde.com /birdsound/spec/spec188-18.html (65 words)

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