Whats a Satin Bower Bird?
Bower: a shady leafy shelter or recess, as in a wood or garden[Collins English Dictionary]. The bower bird gets its name from the thatched structure (bower) built by the male as part of its courtship rituals. The bird defends a court or platform where it builds a bower and spends most of its time displaying and titivating. The bower is constructed in the undergrowth from twigs and coarse grass, and may be as much as 3 feet across and several inches thick. So what? Sounds dull. Adjacent to the bower, usually at the entrance, is a platform on which is placed a collection of coloured displaythings. The Satin Bower Bird has a preference for blue objects that match its own blue, satin-like plumage. Before Europeans arrived these consisted mainly of flowers, berries and feathers, but since then the Bird has had a field day with the caps of ball-point pens, crockery, rubber, clothing, paper, pegs and bottle tops. Extinction of Blue Milk Bottle Tops. The discarded rings from 2 litre milk bottl
