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  1. Male Satin Bowerbird - Plumage Transformation

    Male Satin Bowerbird - Plumage Transformation

    I was lucky enough to capture a few male Satin Bowerbirds at different stages of their plumage transformation. They were all captured in my backyard.
    • DeesBackyardBids
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    • Comments: 6
    • Category: Asia, Australia & Pacific Islands
  2. Satin Bowerbird

    Satin Bowerbird

    In December 2014, I discovered this bower when a female was on a visit of his bower with her wings flapping fast in front of it. It was the flapping sound of her wings which I heard and it caught my attention. I was not sure what I was about to discover when I heard that sound. This was really...
    • Michael Billerbeck
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    • audio australia bowerbird bunya mountains national park ptilonorhynchus ptilonorhynchus violaceus queensland satin bowerbird video
    • Comments: 4
    • Category: Asia, Australia & Pacific Islands
  3. Calls of Green Catbirds

    Calls of Green Catbirds

    In December 2014, when I was in the Bunya Mountains National Park, Queensland, Australia, I was able to hear the Catbird calls. The sound was so strange but interesting to me that I wanted to film them with their calls on video. So, in the end I managed to take some videos of the catbirds, and -...
    • Michael Billerbeck
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    • Comments: 5
    • Category: Asia, Australia & Pacific Islands
  4. Call of the Satin Bowerbird (♂)

    Call of the Satin Bowerbird (♂)

    I filmed this male Satin Bowerbird in the morning of the 31st of December in 2014 while he was calling in the Bunya Mountains National Park, Queensland, Australia. I am sharing this video because you can hear his call in this video. While I was in the Bunya Mountains National Park, I also...
    • Michael Billerbeck
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    • Comments: 3
    • Category: Asia, Australia & Pacific Islands
  5. Spotted Bowerbird

    Spotted Bowerbird

    Spotted Bowerbird
    • thunor
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    • Comments: 8
    • Category: Asia, Australia & Pacific Islands
  6. Regent bowerbird female/juvenile

    Regent bowerbird female/juvenile

    Always find it amazing how completely different the female and juvenile males are from the adult male. The bird guide at O'Reilly's lodge was telling us that it isn't until around 7 years of age that the juvenile males start to take on the colours of the adult male.
    • akapenguins
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    • Category: Asia, Australia & Pacific Islands
  7. Satin Bowerbird

    Satin Bowerbird

    Very happy to see a pair of these ladies in the back yard this morning.
    • Karlbob
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    • Category: Asia, Australia & Pacific Islands
  8. Satin Bowerbird

    Satin Bowerbird

    Taken in Blue Mountains NSW AUSTRALIA
    • DRMW
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    • Comments: 3
    • Category: Asia, Australia & Pacific Islands
  9. Western Bowerbird

    Western Bowerbird

    Western Bowerbird
    • Tiger1
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    • Category: Asia, Australia & Pacific Islands
  10. Western Bowerbird

    Western Bowerbird

    Very well camouflaged. Best located by call.
    • yorkshirebirder
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    • Comments: 2
    • Category: Asia, Australia & Pacific Islands
  11. Great Bowerbird

    Great Bowerbird

    Large, fawn-grey bowerbird with erectile pink crest on nape; upperparts grey-brown, heavily scalloped grey-white; tail tipped whitish. Female: smaller, paler; often lacks crest. Immature: like female. 34-38 cm (Source: Graham Pizzey & Frank Knight)
    • nyoman
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    • bowerbird great bowerbird
    • Comments: 6
    • Category: Asia, Australia & Pacific Islands
  12. great bowerbird

    great bowerbird

    By chance I was experimenting with camera on dove 11mts away when this fella turned up within 2mts of me concealed behind brick pier he was chasing grass hopper.
    • 6eor6e
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    • Category: Asia, Australia & Pacific Islands
  13. Satin Bowerbird

    Satin Bowerbird

    • mehdhalaouate
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    • australia bowerbird satin
    • Comments: 4
    • Category: Asia, Australia & Pacific Islands
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