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Masked Bowerbird
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Masked Bowerbird
Sericulus aureus
The masked bowerbird (Sericulus aureus) is endemic to rainforests of New Guinea. It is one of the most brilliantly coloured bowerbirds. The male is a medium-sized bird, up to 25cm long, with flame orange and golden yellow plumage, elongated neck plumes and yellow-tipped black tail. It builds an "avenue-type" bower with two side walls of sticks. The female is an olive brown bird with yellow or golden below.
From the article Masked bowerbird on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
What it does
All male bowerbirds build bowers, which can be simple ground clearings or elaborate structures, to attract female mates. The masked bowerbird makes a simple avenue bower consisting of two rows of sticks and small numbers of decorations which may include forest fruits and snail shells. Like other congeneric species, field observations indicate that males spend comparatively little time at their bower and are quick to abandon the structure for a nearby rebuild after disturbance from competitor males. Such a rebuild can be completed in less than an hour.
Wikipedia: “Behaviour”
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 979945.