What do satin bowerbirds look like?
Both male and female satin bowerbirds have bright lilac-blue eyes, but here the similarities end. The mature male satin bowerbird is about 30 centimetres long, and his plumage is black with a glossy purple-blue sheen. Until he moults into this plumage during his seventh year, his plumage resembles that of the female. The female is slightly smaller, and is coloured with green, grey-green, dusky brown and dark brown. Her underbody is buff to cream, marked with dark olive-grey to dusky grey crescents.How do they decorate their bowers? The male’s bower is an avenue of twigs and sticks, which he weaves into walls running in a north-south direction. He usually paints these walls with a mixture of charcoal and saliva. Platforms at both ends of the avenue are decorated with mainly blue-coloured objects – including flowers, feathers, and berries. When there are humans nearby, the birds will also use plastic items such as clothes pegs.What sort of environments do they live in? The satin bowerbir
