Stud of studs: A single male satin bowerbird may mate with more than 25 different females. NOVA: Do bowerbirds learn to build bowers by watching other bowerbirds or are the skills innate?

Watch the Video Click here to watch on YouTube Forget Chip and Joanna Gaines, bowerbirds are the real home renovation stars! These incredible avian artists have a keen eye for color and are masters of ...

Satin bowerbirds abound in eastern Australia, pillaging vegetable gardens and picking through garbage for trinkets. So, Patricelli was able to obtain a feathered skin for the outer layer of her ...

Gail Patricelli has designed robots to look very much like satin bowerbirds. At Wallaby Creek, near Brisbane, she dressed her robots to look like female birds. The males then sing and dance around ...

In a previous study, his group found that female satin bowerbirds will return the next year to attractive mates, but "females which fail to encounter very attractive males typically reject their ...

A satin bowerbird's struggle with a plastic bottle ring caught around its head has revealed the threat of plastic to native animals.

Talk about trying to impress a girlfriend! Satin bowerbirds from Australia go overboard to win a mate. First, the blue-black male birds build bowers, U-shaped twig "palaces" where the green female ...

After 14 years of being overlooked, our garden was selected by a satin bowerbird to build its blue-festooned bower.

The satin bowerbird likes blue objects. The Vogelkop bowerbird prefers a mix of fruit, insect parts, leaves and miscellanea, as long as they are neatly arranged.

On the Trail of the Bowerbird Part 2 | Back to Part 1 NOVA: I've heard that you have used robotic female bowerbirds. Why? Borgia: One of my students, Gail Patricelli, has just gotten a paper ...