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Definition of bowerbird in English: bowerbirdnounˈbaʊəbəːdˈbou(ə)rˌbərd A strong-billed Australasian bird, noted for the male's habit of constructing an elaborate run or bower adorned with feathers, shells, and other objects to attract the female for courtship. 造园鸟,花亭鸟,园丁鸟 Family Ptilonorhynchidae: several genera and species Example sentencesExamples - Elsewhere in the valley you might see other birds as fantastic as their names: gang-gangs, king parrots, satin bowerbirds, laughing kookaburras, and lyre-birds that dance in clearings with tails fanned out like peacocks.
- In the present study, we measure infection of the ectoparasitic louse, Myrsidea ptilonorhynchi, in individual male satin bowerbirds both as juveniles and nine or more years later as adults.
- Whistling bowerbirds and whip-cracking riflebirds complement parrots and honeyeaters.
- Fortunately for the young female bowerbirds, good decorating skills correlate with high energy - so both young and old females tend to mate with the same group of top males.
- Startled female bowerbirds often hop out of the bower away from the male.
- A male satin bowerbird stands proudly in front of his avenue-style bower - basically a bachelor pad built to impress visiting females.
- The bowerbirds represent one of the high points of avian evolution and as such they deserve a book that fully captures the wonder of their fantastic natural history.
- Female bowerbirds, for example, choose mates based on the aesthetics of their mating dance.
- For the new study, he considered the region's 65 endemic rain forest species, including ring-tail possums, the golden bowerbird, and microhylid frogs, which skip the tadpole stage.
- Studies by a scientist at the University of Maryland show that male bowerbirds modify their courtship rituals based on the females' body language.
- Male bowerbirds construct elaborately decorated bowers (which are not nests, but courtship arenas) and females prefer builders of higher quality bowers as mates.
- Some classic examples are Egyptian vultures, New Caledonian crows and bowerbirds.
- Say it with bowers: if male bowerbirds build it, females will come.
- The Scandinavian test may have documented an underwater version of the bowerbird strategy, in which females go for the glitter to find the best guy.
- Our findings support the multiple messages hypothesis of multicomponent signals: Female satin bowerbirds should assess both male and bower features to choose the highest quality mates.
- Male bowerbirds famously woo females by fashioning elaborate bowers - not nests but U-shaped showplaces with parallel walls of twigs.
- The male bowerbirds courted the robotic female much as they would a real bird.
- Found only on the large island of New Guinea and in Australia, bowerbirds comprise nineteen species.
- A new study finds that a young, inexperienced, female bowerbird judges a male by the manner in which he decorates his bachelor pad.
- The discussion of the evolution of bowers and bower decorations deserves special attention, because these are the signature traits of the bowerbirds.
Definition of bowerbird in US English: bowerbirdnounˈbou(ə)rˌbərd A strong-billed Australasian bird, noted for the male's habit of constructing a bower adorned with feathers, shells, and other objects to attract the female. 造园鸟,花亭鸟,园丁鸟 Family Ptilonorhynchidae: several genera and species, especially the satin bowerbird (Ptilonorhynchus violaceus), which decorates the bower with blue-colored articles Example sentencesExamples - Whistling bowerbirds and whip-cracking riflebirds complement parrots and honeyeaters.
- Fortunately for the young female bowerbirds, good decorating skills correlate with high energy - so both young and old females tend to mate with the same group of top males.
- Startled female bowerbirds often hop out of the bower away from the male.
- Say it with bowers: if male bowerbirds build it, females will come.
- Some classic examples are Egyptian vultures, New Caledonian crows and bowerbirds.
- Elsewhere in the valley you might see other birds as fantastic as their names: gang-gangs, king parrots, satin bowerbirds, laughing kookaburras, and lyre-birds that dance in clearings with tails fanned out like peacocks.
- Studies by a scientist at the University of Maryland show that male bowerbirds modify their courtship rituals based on the females' body language.
- The Scandinavian test may have documented an underwater version of the bowerbird strategy, in which females go for the glitter to find the best guy.
- Female bowerbirds, for example, choose mates based on the aesthetics of their mating dance.
- A male satin bowerbird stands proudly in front of his avenue-style bower - basically a bachelor pad built to impress visiting females.
- The bowerbirds represent one of the high points of avian evolution and as such they deserve a book that fully captures the wonder of their fantastic natural history.
- A new study finds that a young, inexperienced, female bowerbird judges a male by the manner in which he decorates his bachelor pad.
- Our findings support the multiple messages hypothesis of multicomponent signals: Female satin bowerbirds should assess both male and bower features to choose the highest quality mates.
- Male bowerbirds famously woo females by fashioning elaborate bowers - not nests but U-shaped showplaces with parallel walls of twigs.
- Male bowerbirds construct elaborately decorated bowers (which are not nests, but courtship arenas) and females prefer builders of higher quality bowers as mates.
- The discussion of the evolution of bowers and bower decorations deserves special attention, because these are the signature traits of the bowerbirds.
- For the new study, he considered the region's 65 endemic rain forest species, including ring-tail possums, the golden bowerbird, and microhylid frogs, which skip the tadpole stage.
- The male bowerbirds courted the robotic female much as they would a real bird.
- In the present study, we measure infection of the ectoparasitic louse, Myrsidea ptilonorhynchi, in individual male satin bowerbirds both as juveniles and nine or more years later as adults.
- Found only on the large island of New Guinea and in Australia, bowerbirds comprise nineteen species.
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